The Art of Combining Typefaces
http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index_tw.htm
The good folk at H&FJ sent an interesting email blast on the art of combining typefaces, a challenge for all designers (face it, we all think we know how to do it, just like we all think that we’re better than average drivers - but in reality, we’re all distracted by that ugly billboard on the side of the road. Is that really Comic Sans?).
I have to say, though, that there is a certain richness of type happening in design these days. Good typefaces are no longer reserved for the big expensive type houses. Many of them are showing up on fontsquirrel.com and other unlikely places. There’s a fantastic wealth of good type out there, which means there’s even more fonts out there that are plain horrible, so watch your step. Having subscribed to the school of thought of “learn to use one or two faces, and use them well,” I can’t say that I’m much of an adventurer with type, but I have successfully expanded my library to about 10 faces that I regularly turn to. Perhaps using “H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.” those 10 faces could find new companions.
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