How To Choose Best Fonts For Your Web Page Design

By Author: Nitesh Ahir
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Beautiful colors, persuasive images, and a user-friendly design are key to a successful website, but main part of web is picking the best font or family of fonts for a website has always been an issue. So of most websites you will find on the web use Arial, Verdana or Helvetica type regular font.. Because old is gold they are safe family of fonts that look good on everyone computer. But most computers come pre-loaded with hundreds of font choices, which make it difficult when choosing the right font for your job.

The main question is which a best font for your web and how to choose best font for web. Answer is not so much difficult. The choice of font is depends on the design elements, background color, placement of images and various other factors. Here are some basics about fonts and a few tools that will help you make the best choices for your website.

Basically there are two type of font are available in web

Serif - Serif fonts have small strokes or lines that extend from the ends of letters and symbols. Most common serif font is Times New Roman, Georgia.

Sans serif - Sans serif fonts are simple ...
... and straightforward, and lack the “lines” of the serif fonts. Arial and Tahoma is an example of sans serif font.

In web any font are evaluate by their accessible, readability, size

Accessible

Accessibility is key in a successful website. Web accessibility is the idea of making websites easily accessed by all types. Each and every day there is plenty of fonts are created. But few off font ready to use on the web. The reason for this is different operating systems offer their own font packages. If you choose a font that not everyone has loaded onto their systems. When your visitors are going to be seeing your site with a default font your design will feel disjunct. To avoid this pitfall, choose from the list of universally web-ready fonts and integrate it into your design from the beginning.

Readability
There are two main typefaces that are used in web. One is serif and second is sans serif. Both are very highly on the readability front and you will need to choose the typeface that suits your purpose. These fonts are typically used for newspaper headlines, photo captions and technical documents. Because computer screen resolutions vary, serif fonts can look blurred on many computers.

Size

The issue with font size ties in with usability, accessibility, and target audience. You need a font size large enough to read with ease, but not so large as to be bothersome. As a general rule, designers like to set their body copy at the very least at 12px. Most, however, chose a larger size like 14px, which is even better for readability. So Selection of proper typeface with a suitable spacing for web is main concern.

Web Safe Fonts

It’s good to know about the regular web safe fonts before diving into web. Let me list them for you:

Arial/Helvetica
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier/Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Times/Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

Mobile Web Safe Fonts

All these mobile devices come with different system fonts, so your safest bets for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Arial/Helvetica
Courier/Courier New
Georgia
Times/Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

Nitesh Ahir is CEO of professional web development company esparkinfo solution. He has a great experience about the web development services, logo design services, graphic design services and internet marketing services.