Web Designing: Using The Right And Popular Website Fonts
| Fonts are something that is neglected by many website designers and owners. Fonts play a very important role in the content of a website. Choosing the right font can make your website more desirable and reader friendly. |
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Fonts for Websites:
If we just deviate and talk about print material, we notice that specific fonts are used because these fonts are easily understood by the reader of the print material. This also holds true for websites. However, fonts for your website should be simple and easy to read.
Remember, a website visitor does not spend too much time browsing each site. So, if the fonts on your website are complicated and difficult to read, the visitor will just move on to another website
. A website is displayed on the computer screen by a browser. A browser can only display those fonts which are present in the computer system. Therefore, it makes sense to use fonts that present in most computers. This further goes to say that websites do not need specific fonts, but the fonts used on a website should be found in majority of computers. Fonts that are found in most computers are Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console, Times New Roman and Verdana. So if you use one of these fonts on your website, the contents of your website can easily be read on most computers of the world.
There can be times when certain font types are not appropriate for a particular website. When this happens, many times web designers and owners are tempted to use Photoshop to display the text as image. This is a major mistake on their part as search engines will read just the text displayed and not the text in image formats like JPEG and GIF. In these cases, it is advisable to use HTML to place the text so that it becomes more search engine friendly.
Using the right fonts on your website is extremely important and it can have an effect on your website. Make sure the fonts are clear and readable. After all, fonts are used to communicate an idea and / or information. Fonts are not decorative tools.
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