Thursday, August 2, 2012

Fonts and Web Design: Make Your Website Viewer-Friendly




As vain as it may seem, font can greatly affect the way people feel about your website.  Believe it or not, website design is not all about aesthetics.  Website design is also about functionality.  The font size, style and color can alter the decisions people make when they view your website

As Web Designers in Chicago, we scrutinize every part of the website design process down to the smallest detail.  Font choice can make or break whether your content gets read or discarded.  Consider our tips when adding text to your website:

(1) Easy to read: Readers should not have to squint or struggle to read your website’s text.  While that cursive font may look decorative and unique, it may be hard for the vast majority to read.  If you feel a creative font is necessary, then the best bet is to search for one that is still decorative and unique, but is still legible. 

(2) Attention grabbing: You can use font on your website to grab your readers’ attention.  Indenting, spacing or even colors used appropriately are all great ways to use font to grab readers’ attention.

(3) Size:  Sizing is important to website text.  Website font for the main content shouldn’t be too small or too large.  Large fonts should be used for titles, headlines, or headings to set them apart from other content and to show importance.  Size up your fonts accordingly. 

(4) Identify keywords:  Give your readers a dose of the main point by highlighting keywords.  This will draw their eyes to the right words.  This way, even if they are only skim reading your articles or blogs, they will still be able to grasp the main point.

(5) Standard style: Say what you want about standard style text (that it’s blah, boring, over-used, etc.), but it’s the most widely used for a reason.  And that reason is that everyone has those fonts and most people find it easy to read.  You may love using an obscure font on your website, but if the viewer doesn’t have that font, they won’t be able to read your content.  Now your super cool font isn’t so super cool anymore.  Think twice about standard fonts.

If you have any questions or comments about website design, feel free to drop by our contact page.  We love talking about Chicago Web Design.

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