19 Top Font Combinations

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If you only have time to read one article today, this is the one I would recommend! I haven't seen a lot of articles on the subject of combining fonts effectively and this one is done really well. Definitely worth a read.

I followed the golden rule of font combinations, which is simply to combine a serif and a sans serif to give “contrast” and not “concord”. The farther apart the typeface styles are, as a guideline, the more luck you’ll have. Fonts that are too similar look bad. Set a line of Times Roman over Garamond and you’ll see what I mean. I chose the simple model of a bold headline font and normal weight body font. All the font combinations got the same “lorem” text.

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October 19, 2009 in Design Resources

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