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All you need is 5 fonts
- ______- 5y agoI always just done: font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; Well at least for CSS on the web. When designing posters I usually visit dafont.com to find something suitable. Remote webfonts don't even load for me since I turned them off in uBlock Origin. The web looks less stylized and fancy (just the way I like it).
- PaulHoule 5y agoRight now I have two. One that has letterforms I like in the roman alphabet, and one that has Japanese and Chinese letterforms. (Unlike a web browser, I'm using a text rendering engine that doesn't merge fonts together behind my back, so I pick letters that I like in the languages that I need.)
- devenblake 5y agoRelevant: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion made heavy (and iconic) use of Helvetica and Century in the English episode title cards.
- jfengel 5y agoI'd be curious to have somebody elaborate on his list: A geometric sans serif A high quality serif for long text A workhorse font A web safe font A variable font Under what circumstances do you go for your "variable font"? What's the difference between the "workhorse" and the first two items? (His "workhorse" is a family containing both a serif and a sans serif. Though I have a hard time seeing Roboto Slab as a body font.) The article is about design for web. Shouldn't they all be web safe fonts?