blogger fonts :: tips

Ever wondered how people pick their fonts, or how they get them to look so good or so perfect or so cute? If you haven't, ok. I have, sometimes. I'm not sure when the last time was that I wondered, but a while ago I was looking through fonts on Blogger (I don't remember why) and I realized something...

And now you're going to have to click on the "read more" button because there's no way I'm going to have long posts on the front page of my blog, no thank you. If it's inconvenient, you can always say so.

The thing was, I realized a truth about fonts — you pair a "smooth" font with a "curvy" font. For example, this font that you're looking at right now. This font is Arial (as I'm sure you know) and it's a font that, for me, would fall into the "smooth" category.

Here's an example of a "smooth" font. (Droid Sans)

Here's an example of a "curvy" font. (Georgia)

Can you tell the difference? 

Once (Droid Sans) has almost no nothing hanging off of it. The n stops where it stops, but the other one (Georgia), with that n, it stops...but has a line that shows it has ended. Here's an example. 

curvy N:

smooth N:

See how the curvy N has the little footstands, it looks like, and the smooth N just ends abruptly.

Since I'm a total amateur and I don't know anything about this, I don't have some fancy name to throw out there, but if you know the name or you're experienced in typography, please leave a comment and tell me what that is, so I don't have to call it "curvy".

Here's one last picture to sum it all up and to give you a better understanding.

Anyway, all of that to say I realized that when you have a blog and the posts have a smooth font, the best font for your banner will be a curvy font (that includes calligraphic fonts). Just a note: the opposite doesn't really look good - you can't use a smooth font for your banner and then go on to use a curvy font for the body text of your blog, the post's font, it just doesn't look good. Ofc, it all comes down to what you as the designer want - if you like that, do it, nobody's stopping you. It just doesn't look good imo and I'm not experienced in the design field, so that should tell you something.

I fiddled with the fonts on this post so if any of the fonts get messed up after I hit "publish", it's probably because Blogger is getting confused with which font I want to use. ;) I'll try to fix it, if it has any problems.

Merry Christmas!

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