Picking the Perfect Font for Beautiful Designs Every Time
If it doesn't look good it isn't going to get a good grade. No longer in the age of the typewriter, we are now able to choose from many different fonts and sizes. In the case of fonts, less is more sometimes but picking the perfect size and type can be tricky. A font is a "set of type." When writing my graphic design curriculum, I turned to my sister, Sarah Adams, who has three degrees in the subject, is an online professor for a major art university, and owns her own firm. (If you've seen a magazine in the US, you've seen her ads - designed right down the road here in Camilla, Ga.) There are two basic decisions that you have to make about a font: the font face itself, and the font size. I'm going to come back to font face and font families in a later post, but first lets assume you're using ONE font family and look at selecting font size. Pick the Perfect Font Size Using The Font Formula 0-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-34-55-89... Yes, this is...