There are many website fonts you can choose from when you decide to structure your company portal. This is because, in a site, not only the graphics, the contents and its speed of use and loading count, but also the choice of the type of font to be used in the texts themselves.
Each font represents a characteristic, a state of mind, an emotion and can give the text elegance, harmony but also originality and dynamism, depending on what you choose to use.
So, which website fonts can you choose? What are the most common? How to choose them?
Fonts for websites: let’s first make a necessary premise
Before getting to the heart of the matter, it is essential to make a necessary premise and distinguish two different macro categories of fonts. These are Sans Serif and Serif fonts. The first category literally indicates the “sans serif” fonts, i.e, without the terminal parts of the letters.
An example of a Sans Serif font is Arial. On the other hand, the Serif fonts, therefore “with thanks”, are those that have the so-called terminal parts in each letter (an example is the Times New Roman font, so to speak). Those without thanks are certainly more elegant and modern while those with thanks are much more harmonious and clean.
What are the most popular website fonts?
The fonts that are mostly used on websites are Ariel, Times New Roman, Futura, and Helvetica. It is therefore a mix between Serif and Sans Serif. If you want to use a different font, perhaps more decorative and particular, Google offers the possibility to choose the font you want, through a specific tool.
Needless to say, it’s called Google Fonts and it is a space that collects a whole series of open-source characters, to be used both privately and for a commercial site. To use the chosen font on your site, you can download it or follow all the instructions to link it to your page. Google Fonts has a very intuitive interface, so by carefully following the various steps, it will not be difficult to use the tool even if you are a novice.
How to choose the perfect font for your site?
Well, a lot depends on the type of site you want to create and your sector of reference. If, for example, you have a consulting company, it goes without saying how important it is to choose a clean, low-frills, and highly professional font. In short, in this case, you will be able to wander very little, here.
If, rather, you are an artist, choosing an original font, even little seen around but always strictly legible, will help you to better present your works from a didactic point of view. In short, regardless of the sector, what is certain is that it is almost always essential to choose the font that best represents your company, but that can be easily read and in harmony with the graphics of your site.
