Have you ever sat there staring at your layout thinking “What combination of fonts would look best together?” as you endlessly scrolled through your list of fonts? Is the golden rule of combining fonts Greek Latin to you? Well, sit in darkness no longer. Douglas over at Bonfx has demistified the art of the font combo.
I simply 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.
Check out the combinations and even download a cheat sheet here//
Is it the end all be all of font combinations? Not a chance, but it’s a really good start.
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Nice cheat sheet. Worth while download. Thanks.