Before the digital age typography was a skill that not everyone  could possess. Though typography has been around for centuries, these days it’s just as important to have good typography on a website as it is a newspaper.  Everything in type should be important to a web designer, from the colors to the size to the font chosen. For example, for a long paragraph, ideally you would not choose a fancy pink font with a yellow background, that’s just not something that would make sense in a designers eyes, though it may catch you’re attention for a few seconds,  type should flow naturally and if you want someone to read a whole paragraph, keeping the type simple should be just fine.

There are a few things you should pay attention to when designing your website, pertaining to the type. Contrast should be a big part of the typeography, you want something easy to read and somethign that’s easy on the eyes. You can never go wrong with black type on a white background, though white on black may be a little more diffcult to read for long blocks of text. Black and white are ideal though they might not always work for your site, so be sure to pick colors that compliment each other and are easy to read.

Space is also important, it’s good to have a balance on a page, you don’t want to clutter the page with too much text when  you’re designing. Though it’s also important to have a good sized text, whether the text be too big or too small, this could be a problem. You want to keep any body of text at about a 12 pt, that’s an easy size to read for most people, but obviously you might want to have your headlines at a bigger size. Generally people are going to skim a site until they read a headline that grabs their attention, so it important to differentiate the body from the headlines.

Following those general rules should help with your site, though the true test is you or someone with a keen eye check it out to make sure it looks good.

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