From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
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Choosing a Script font for display use
From the course: Choosing and Using Web Fonts
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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Understanding Script fonts2m 19s
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Choosing a Script font for display use8m 12s
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Changing styling as necessary to improve the form and placement of letters on the page3m 33s
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Choosing a second font to pair with the Script Display font3m 42s
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Incorporating a second font with the Script Display font2m 53s
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Setting fallback fonts2m 55s
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