Are you considering a website re-design, or your first website? There are so many factors to consider: what kind of [tippy title=”CMS”]CMS stands for Content Management System. A CMS will make it easy for you to update and add content to your website. A popular example is WordPress.[/tippy] do you want to use, how will you organise information on your website? What will your pages say? Then there are the copious number of design decisions to make… font choice being one of them. If you’re a designer or artist, you already know that design speaks a language that conveys meaning even before words are printed on the page, and the font used sets the tone for what you’re trying to convey.
When you’re developing content for the web, there are a host of technical factors to consider, but one of the big one that impacts design, is that not all fonts are available on all computers. What this means is that the font you choose for your website should be “web-safe.” Those are usually fonts that are widely available and come pre-installed on most computers, including both Macs and PCs.