| It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts when | | | | not easy to read. |
| designing a web page. After all, the fancier the font | | | | Maybe for a word or two, no problem. But a whole |
| the more attractive it will be to visitors and the more | | | | page of Harry Potter fonts could become a reading |
| likely they will be to stay at your page once they've | | | | nightmare for a visitor to your site. |
| gotten there. Actually, the reverse is often true. | | | | Now, suppose your site was about Harry Potter. In |
| Most people go to a web page because they are | | | | that case it would be okay to maybe have some |
| interested in the information that is there, either an | | | | words using that font, such as maybe headings and |
| article they want to read about something or maybe | | | | the first word of each paragraph. But the majority of |
| it's a product or service site that requires them to | | | | your text you would still need to be in easy to read |
| navigate through a number of pages to find the | | | | font. |
| product or service that they are looking for. | | | | This way you capture the flavor of the Harry Potter |
| The last thing they want to do is have to battle with | | | | world and still give your readers an easy to read |
| the font on the page because it is difficult to read. | | | | experience. |
| There are several things that make fonts easy or | | | | Size is another issue about fonts. Not everybody has |
| hard to read and each one is equally as important. | | | | 20-20 vision. You don't want the fonts on your page |
| Fonts are made up of many properties but the most | | | | to be too small. If they are, some people are going |
| important of these are type, size and color. | | | | to have a difficult time reading the material on the |
| The type of font refers to how the font characters | | | | page. |
| themselves are displayed. The most common fonts | | | | A good size for a paragraph font is about 12 to 14 |
| are Times New Roman and Ariel because they are | | | | point. Headings can be a little bigger, maybe between |
| the most easy to read. The reason they are the | | | | 16 and 20 point. By keeping the size of your font |
| most easy to read is because they are plain and | | | | within normal parameters you give your visitors the |
| simple. | | | | best chance of an easy read of your page. |
| There is nothing fancy about them as opposed to a | | | | By keeping these few simple things in mind you |
| font like, say, Potter, which is an excellent | | | | assure your visitors of the most pleasant experience |
| representation of the fonts used in the Harry Potter | | | | possible when visiting your pages. |
| movie series. They may look real cool but they are | | | | |