Anonymous: hi carina! i always have a hard time picking the right font for my projects especially given the "amount" of fonts to choose from. just wondering if you could give me tips on choosing the right font and if there are good sites where i can check out to learn more about fonts/typo in general. thank you very much! :)
First, I wouldn’t call it ‘typo’. It might be a personal preference but I shorten it to ‘type’ because that’s how I always knew it as. I think ‘typo’ refers to typographical errors more than typography.
For body text, I generally don’t use anything narrow (hard to read) or too decorative (distracting, hard to read, tacky).
Good resources:
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
http://www.fontshop.com/education/
I have a hard time choosing type, too, which is why I generally hand draw a lot of text. Jessica Hische started out that way also. :)
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