There are many elements to consider when building your website. The fonts of your website are an important element that you must not forget.
Typography is the visual representation of the type. Typography is more than just words. It should be visually appealing on the screen.
This guide will cover the 10 most used Google fonts, and give tips for choosing the right fonts to use on your website.
Ten best Google fonts for websites
Google Fonts offers a free resource with licensed fonts. These fonts will make your site look professional on all devices.
Lato
Designed by: Łukasz Dziedzic
This font can be used as a title or body text.
Forum
Denis Masharov designed the site.
This serif font looks great in headlines and titles. Its Roman proportions give it a vintage feel.
Barlow
Designed By: Jeremy Tribby
Barlow sans Serif font is clean and low-contrast.
Caudex
Nidud created this site.
In the late 1990s, Caudex was first designed for printing. It has since been modified to be used online.
Poppins
Indian Type Foundry created this product
Poppins is one of the most loved free fonts. It’s a sans-serif family with a minimalist aesthetic that relies on perfect circles, geometric forms, and clean lines.
Questia
Joe Prince designed this site.
The font was created with the website design in mind. It’s easy to read in all contexts.
Rozha One
Design by The Indian Type Foundry
Use high-contrast fonts such as this display font for headers and titles.
Libre Baskerville
Design by Rodrigo Fuenzalida & Pablo Impallari
This web-optimized font is the 18th century’s iconic serif font. It is ideal for a text body.
Montserrat
Julieta Ulanovsky designed the site.
Montserrat, a geometric sans-serif font, is clean and modern. It can be easily recognized.
Cormorant Garamond
Christian Thalmann designed the site.
This serif font was inspired by 16th-century typefaces. It brings an elegant, traditional touch to web design.
These fonts are available on Kobe Digital to help you create a website. You can upload a different font to your editor with just a few mouse clicks.
How do you choose the best fonts to use on your website
These are some tips to help choose the right fonts for your website.
- Make certain that your fonts match your brand’s tone
- Sort fonts according to the importance
- The basics font classification
- Use text themes
01. Your fonts must match your brand
Without fonts, branding is incomplete. Make sure that your font scheme matches your visual brand assets.
The typography on your website should be part of the overall story.
02. Sort fonts by their importance
Limiting the number of fonts on your website will improve its design and make it easier for users to use.
Each font should have a distinct level of importance. To maintain a sense of hierarchy, you should choose a primary and secondary font.
Use your primary font in your headers. It can be more prominent than other fonts on your website.
Most of your website content will use the secondary typeface. Complex fonts can make it difficult to read large sections of text.
An accent font should only be used for a specific purpose. You can also use your logo design as an accent font.
These are the favorite font pairings by our designers to help mix and match typefaces for your website.
03 Learn the basics of font classification
Typography has many aspects. There are many aspects to typography.
- Sans serif fonts don’t have serif lines at the ends.
- Script fonts: All script fonts, including cursive fonts, are modeled after handwriting. Lobster, Lucida Handwriting, and Lobster are just two examples.
04. Use text themes
Now that you have selected your type scheme, it’s time to select the right letter size for large titles, sub-titles, or paragraph text.
Titles: 30-70px
Subtitles: 22-30px
Paragraph: 16-20px
To personalize your Kobe Digital website, you can save text themes so that title, subtitles, and paragraph text remain consistent in size, font, and weight.
This makes it easier to create your website and improves your SEO.
Stylistic changes like bold, italic, or underlining can affect the font’s visual weight. Use limited quantities.