Fuse 2 Fonts and get to SXSWi
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So, I didn't win the .net magazine competition for a pair of tickets to SXSWi this year.
Thanks to Candi I've just entered a competition at Font Fuse for the chance to get some kick-ass VIP tickets to SXSWi. I probably won't win, I never win. Well, I haven't won anything since 1988 when I got a bunch of Panini stickers and the 1988 American Football sticker album, but I digress.
Sure picking two fonts can be like taking candy from a baby or it can be the most difficult thing you have to suss out. I generally stick to one font pair in almost all the work I do when I start and I'm not entirely sure if the fonts I've chosen for this piece of the internet I call mine are entirely 'right'.
I was thinking that really what both fonts need to do is
- complement each other
- be 'easy' on the eye
- not be imposing on the page
- be simple
- be elegant
Having a quick look at the vast amount of fonts available i picked my two favourites for the task. I chose some nice blues for the background and the heading and body text.
I wasn't too satisfied with the standard text placed in the body so I found a nice little quote from Robert Louis Stevenson
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
So if you have a spare 5 minutes why not take a look at the competion, have a go yourself, look at other font pairings for some great typographic inspiration or just vote for my pairing.
