The internet has no shortage of stunning websites that manage to captivate visitors with things like colour, layout, interactive features, and ease of use or simply just superb design, but unfortunately many are let down by their choice of fonts.
Easy to Read
Because of how well they display on a computer screen, some of the most commonly used fonts include Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, and Helvetica, and I have to admit that my own favourites are Verdana and Arial although I’m happy with any font that’s easy to read.
Disliked by Many
No doubt there will be those who like a website containing some of the more unusual or less-favoured fonts and that’s to be expected as taste is a personal thing, but from a personal point of view and from what I can tell, a view shared by many, the least-liked is Comic Sans and if you’ve ever seen it on a website you’ll know why.
Fonts in Design
Regardless of how good a site looks, the choice of font can make or break it, so choosing a suitable font is perhaps as much a part of web design as creating the website itself because it’s the copy that imparts information and as such should be very easy on the eye.
Having said that, it’s likely that occasionally, a client may demand a font that perhaps doesn’t display too well but is in keeping with their company brand and in these instances font choice is understandably beyond the control of the web designer – well; you can’t blame them for everything, can you?
