Mostly Used Font Type In Web Development

by Amit Kumawat Director at D Amies Technologies

A lot of immense creativity can be seen in the use of web typography. No doubt, one of the most valuable sources is Google fonts. The open source nature of Google fonts make it distinct from others and it can be used for both commercial and personal pages. Moreover, the key aspects of web and mobile typography which are taken into consideration are high quality of selection, its readability, its legibility and the accessibility which its personal platform dedicates itself to.

With the changing time, web design and development services are also changing. The usages of typography as a principal design element are also changing. The most modish trend, Google fonts are more useful resource at present. As Google fonts offer a spontaneous and easy interface and download system and so permit you to match up all the fonts and styles which are accessible to convince the current creative landscape that is blending typography, big paragraphs, diplay and serif fonts, decorative styles and more.

You can find some variety of fonts based on their artistic facets here. We have tinted those fonts which are above all functionalities, containing families with lots of styles and weights.

a) Arial

Arial is a sans serif design and particularly versatile family of typefaces. Arial is used widely to give finishing touches to text setting in presentations, newspapers, advertisements etc. Arial was designed for Monotype in 1982. Arial was chosen by Microsoft and placed in the list of four core TrueType fonts in windows. Microsoft had also stated Arial to be a substitute of Helvetica.

b) Times New Roman

This font is serif typeface and is basically a dual creativity of typographer Stanley Morison and advertising artist Victor Lardent. Times New Roman is asserted as most trustworthy font and popular font. This font is mostly used in printing books and documents on the web.

c) Futura

In 1927, Paul Renner has designed Futura. Due to effectiveness and informality in appearance, Futura, the font style became productive right away. It is stated as a mishmash of modernity and classicism. The font is very much used for advertisements, promotions, and logos.

d) Trajan

Designed in 1989, Trajan is serif typeface, which is basically based on Roman square capitals letterforms. There are only capital typefaces in this font because the lowercase letter was not utilized by Roman civilization. Trajan is mostly popular for appearing in Hollywood movies, in movie posters and film promotions etc.

e) Verdana

A design for Microsoft Corporation, Verdana is simple sans serif typeface. Verdana font family has an attribute of having higher resolutions at small sizes. Due to this feature, they are valued and cherished mostly. Most of the features displayed by Verdana fonts are the outcome of the pixel.

Today, systems come in the market with standard fonts installed in them. However, there are times when a designer needs for a font style which is not installed locally. In such cases, the designer can use the web font which is accessible through the server where the file is hosted.