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Choosing a Script font for display use

Choosing a Script font for display use

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Choosing a Script font for display use

So now that we know more about Script fonts, we need to pick one to use. There are a couple of Scripts on Typekit that I'd be interested in using for this project, but none are available in the trial plan and since there are so many Script fonts to choose from, we're going to just choose a font from Google Web Fonts. I don't usually use a Web font specimen sheet when looking for a display font to use for a single headline, like we're going to do in this next project. Display fonts are fonts that are not meant to be used in text. They are designed for display purposes only so that is, they were designed to only be used in headlines. So mostly, I just need to know if the font works for the phrase I'm going to use. So in Google Fonts we can narrow down the fonts that we're looking at. We can go over the Filters and we can turn-off everything except for Handwriting. When we do that we have 102 font-families to choose from. I usually like to sort by Alphabet, that way if I get interrupted…

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