From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography
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31 Limit typefaces to two per document
From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography
31 Limit typefaces to two per document
- Law 31, limit typefaces to two per document. You may have hundreds of typefaces on your computer and there are hundreds of thousands more typefaces out in the world that are available for purchase and some of them are even free to download. With all of these typefaces at your fingertips, it's really easy to over do it and junk up your documents with too many typefaces in one document. Using too many typefaces results in a document that's unprofessional and messy. Unless you're a trained, experienced graphic designer, it's best to stick with two typefaces as a maximum in any document that you create. Here's an example of a flyer that uses 10 different typefaces. All of the text looks so different from all of the other text, that this doesn't even look like a cohesive document. Instead, it looks like a bunch of unrelated text blocks that are all screaming for our attention. And the result is a noisy, unorganized, and unprofessional mess. Now here's the same basic flyer with the same…
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