Exploring Font Selections for a Modern Web Design
Exploring Font Selections for a Modern Web Design
When designing a website, one of the critical aspects that directly affect the user experience is typography. Choosing the right font families can significantly enhance the readability and aesthetics of a website. Here, we will explore the different font families we selected for a specific web design project, discussing why we chose them and how we incorporated them into the project.
Selecting Our Font Families
For this particular web design, we made a careful selection of five font families, each contributing to a distinct aspect of the site's typography:
- 'Karla', a sans-serif typeface,
- 'Noto Sans JP', another sans-serif typeface, which offers excellent support for the Japanese language,
- 'Noto Serif', a serif counterpart to 'Noto Sans JP',
- 'Nunito', a well-balanced sans-serif typeface, and
- 'Permanent Marker', a cursive typeface for occasional stylized text.
These fonts offer a diverse range of styles and create a nice balance between readability and visual interest. They also cover a range of weights, from lighter weights suitable for regular body text to heavier weights for bold headings and accents.
Implementing Fonts With CSS and Google Fonts
We utilized Google Fonts to easily incorporate these font families into our web design. Google Fonts provides a simple and efficient way to import a variety of fonts via a straightforward URL in our CSS file. For example, to include our selected fonts, we used the following CSS @import statement:
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Karla:wght@400;500;700;800&family=Noto+Sans+JP:wght@300;400;500;700&family=Noto+Serif:wght@400;700&family=Nunito:wght@500;700&family=Permanent+Marker&display=swap");
Including Custom Fonts
In addition to the fonts provided by Google, we also incorporated several custom fonts into our design:
- "euvlidA", a typeface downloaded from CufonFonts (URL: Euclid Circular A).
- "Wotfard", sourced from Befonts (URL: Wotfard).
- "vineritc", and
- "tex".
We included these fonts using the @font-face CSS rule, specifying the font file's location with the src attribute:
@font-face {
font-family: "euvlidA";
src: url("../components/fonts/EuclidCircularA-Medium.ttf");
}
By thoughtfully selecting and integrating these font families, we ensured a versatile and user-friendly typographic environment for our web design project.
