Design With Font Families

Week 3 Intro to Desktop Publishing

Font Families

Serif Families

• Old Style– Times New Roman– Palatino Linotype

• Slab Serif– Goudy Stout

– Playbill• Modern

– Bernard MT Condensed– Century Schoolbook

Sans Serif Families• Sans Serif

– Arial– Calibri

• Script– Comic Sans– Script Bold

• Decorative– Stencil

• Dingbats– Wingdings (wingdings)

Contrast

• When designing a page, choose fonts from different families – provides contrast and interest

• Never use more than 3 fonts for whole document – keep it simple

• Brochure– Oldstyle serif font to make paragraph more readable– Sans serif font for headers to contrast the paragraphs– Slab serif font for title on front panel