What fonts do you most often use in website design?

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What fonts do you most often use in website design and which ones do you consider to be the main/essential (except system) fonts that every web designer should have?

Answer 1

Open Sans, Roboto, PT Sans, Droid Sans, Noto Sans, Fira Sans.
And of course Lobster =)

Answer 2

Do not confuse the guy and do not limit him in his choice. He listens, closes on Open Sans, Roboto, Proxima Nova.
1. The choice of font is carried out in accordance with a specific task. This is the first rule to keep in mind when choosing a font(s) for a particular project.
Do you have large volumes of text and need to achieve maximum reading speed? Choose a font with maximum readability (Helvetica, Pragmatica, Aktiv Grotesk, etc).
Are you making a business card site for your girlfriend selling hand-made jewelry? You can look at decorative fonts or serifs.
In addition, there may be restrictions on the font set on the part of the software developer for which the project is being made. For example, Microsoft in Windows 8 Guidelines strongly recommended moving away from third-party fonts in favor of Segoe UI.
It's hard for me to imagine, for example, an IT company website with paragraphs set in serifs like Bodoni or Baskerville . This would cause dissonance, since Antiqua (serif fonts) sends us to the past, and Information Technology is the direction of the future, which is why Grotesque typefaces (sans-serif) are chosen.
2. Practice is good, but without theoretical foundations and understanding of the structure, it will be difficult for you to achieve ideal results. Font Samples by Jan Tschichold, Living TypographyKorolkova are great books to start with.
3. Search for font pairs.
Find a font pair for the Heading/Paragraph link. Like people, not all fonts fit together. Are you going to make a monofont site? Why not. However, perhaps it will be boring and will suggest adding another headset to the existing one.
The Internet is full of sites dedicated to "playing" couples.
BUT. Never. in no case. Not under any circumstances. You can not use similar fonts in headings and paragraphs. For example: Helvetica and Acumin Pro .
Why are some fonts popular and others not? There are many reasons here:
a) Free. No need to pay for a font license, or license fees for use in applications or the web. The Lobster font gained its popularity precisely for this reason. (although now he has a reputation close to Comic Sans).
b) The quality of the set of headsets.
c) Language support.
d) The presence of ligatures (not relevant for Cyrillic :))
e) Trends in Web Design, etc.
Returning to the question "What fonts should every web designer have?" After all of the above, would you like to rephrase your question "What should every web designer be guided by when choosing a font?"
Services:
Google Fonts (Free) and Adobe TypeKit (Free and Paid). Personally, I prefer the service from Adobe. A little more difficult to "install" the font, but nicer in terms of the quality of the typeface sets.

Answer 3

lato

Answer 4

Museo Sans, Littera Text, PT Sans, ALS Direct, Adelle. In general, the combination of Georgia + Helvetica looks very interesting

Answer 5

Arial

Answer 6

Главный шрифт, который должен быть у любого дизайнера - это sans-serif.
Пока не прогрузится внешний шрифт, сайт все равно будет отрисован на нем.

Answer 7

Segoe UI

Answer 8

Предлагаю посмотреть статистику со всего мира о том, кто и какие шрифты использует.
www.fontreach.com
FontReach scans the top million sites to show font usage across the web.

Answer 9

Open Sans, Roboto, Lato и Arsenal

Answer 10

из коллекции Google Fonts

Answer 11

Бесплатные и/или предоставленные клиентом.

Answer 12

Семейство Exo 2

Answer 13

Proxima Nova сейчас самый популярный, практически везде его встречаю последнее время.