The document discusses font selection tips for web design, noting that fonts are an important but often overlooked design element that can impact readability and compatibility across browsers if common web-safe fonts are not used. It provides guidance on choosing serif or sans-serif fonts that are easy to read and will display properly regardless of whether users have the specific font installed locally. Designers are advised to select modern, common fonts to ensure text is neatly presented and easily readable for all visitors.

1. FONT TIPS FOR WEB DESIGN
By:
Joha Rahman
http://coolfonts-
ultimatefonts.blogspot.com/

2. Designing a Web
 When designing a Web site, there are many
decisions that are necessary to create a
design that ensures that the site is attractive
and easily understood by the readers.
 The site need to serve the needs of the end
customers, it does not matter if they are
selling footwear, or a competition sports.
 While stress is being put on the contents, the
look is also critical so that people will be
attracted to stay on reading it.

3. The Design Consideration
 There are many aspects to consider,
the colors, layout, used images and even the
kind of used fonts.
 Many inexperienced designers overlook the
fonts selection thinking it really do not
matter.
 Fonts are an extremely important part of any
design, including the design of web sites. It is
important to carefully examine the fonts in
your Web site for a number of reasons.

4. Selection Criteria -
Readability

First, the most critical policies on the site is, it must be easy
to read. If the font that you chose to use in your design
slows down your ability to read the contents even by the
smallest amount, then don't use it!

People these days are chasing for time and certainly don't
want to sit there and try to decipher the information on the
site, just because the web master of fantasy that is used.
They'll probably just fall sick of the whole thing and leave,
and it is a wasted opportunity for the web owner.
 Make sure that you choose a font that is easy to read and
not too rare, that way people are entertained by it and that
they can concentrate only on the content of the actual site.

5. Compatibility
 Suppose you design a Web site, and you will find this beautiful
font looks so cool and unique and really suited to the design. You
install on your system and the design the entire site with this
custom font, that you have found. But when a user visits the site,
and they do not have the custom font installed on their
computers, things start to go wrong in a mysterious manner.
 Here is what might happen.
The user can obtain a prompt by the browser, saying "hey you do
not have this font installed, you want to find and install?" in
which most people will say "hell no" and leave. I know that this is
what I would say. It is no way on earth that I would leave some
strange site start install anything on my system ever!

6. Compatability
 The most likely outcome is that the browser will just say "hey we
lack this policy..." What should I do? OH well I'll just replace the
font with a default system font "." Suddenly your design looks
completely different! The fonts that replaces the browser spacing
of the different letters, it is slightly bigger than before and now it
is make your design look really weird.
 Probably the font that he'll choose to default is "Courier". For
those of you who do not know your fonts, Courier is the font for
really old-school typewriter-like printing and it's horrible! Your
entire Web site is now similar to junk because although the
presentation of the page layout is pleasant, the text looks like it is
produced by a World War 2 era typewriter! Rest assured people
will leave the site and are never when this occurs.

7. How You Decide
 When you are deciding on a font to use for
your site, there are only a few decisions to
make, and they are really easy.
 First decision is whether you should use a
serif font, or a Sans-Serif font. Serif is the
edges just fancy that appear on the more
contemporary fonts. Just Google and you'll
instantly see what I was talking about.

8. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS
 Therefore a serif is a more contemporary style font, and a
Sans-Serif font is a font of more modern style. Remember
thinking = fancy edges Serif, Sans-Serif = without fancy
edges.
There are many different fonts to choose from this range,
however try to use a relatively new font. If you follow these
simple rules, that you never have problems with the fonts
used in your web designs. The information will always look
neat, clean and is easily read by your visitors.
 The font that you choose may seem like a very minor thing,
but try to remember that all the content on your site is
communicated to the user via the text on your Web site! If
in many ways this is really one of the most important
aspects of the entire site.

9. The Resource
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