As an ending to this series of font-tastic posts, I am recapping some of the best fonts I discovered while doing font research. The five I have chosen for today’s post are, in my opinion, the most usable and easily-read of all the fonts in each category I wrote about (fancy fonts, sans-serif/serif body fonts, bitmap fonts, and symbol fonts). I hope you find them as useful and awesome as I have–I’ve already downloaded them all for use in my future designs!

(By the way, I provide links back to the articles I wrote for each category, so it’s easy to check through the articles and see if you agree with my picks. 😀 )

Best Fonts from This Article Series

Best Bitmap Font: Ernest Why? Because it provides the smallest and yet most readable text for itty-bitty graphics. I’ve long used it for link buttons, but it has a variety of uses around a website.

Best Symbol Font: CD-Icons Why? Because it has a ton of symbols–even symbols for special characters, like accented E’s, etc. It literally has a symbol for every character you can think of, and they are all useful in an icon-based design.

Best Fancy Font: Dhe Mysterious Why? Because it has a well-defined character set, and yet it has a beautiful wispy quality to it too…strong but soft. Great for titles and headings, but not too bold.

Best Sans-Serif Body Font: Alido Why? Because it’s not Arial, Verdana, or Helvetica, but it is still legible–it’s different without being tiring on the eyes after reading a page or two written in it.

Best Serif Body Font: Timeless Why? Graceful without being overpowering–and again, it looks different enough from Georgia, Garamond, and Times New Roman.

Summary

Fonts are, for me, one of the most important parts of web design, because a good font choice means that people can read your content (what they came for). Making a website beautiful AND easy to use/read is what webdesigners are all about, after all!

I hope that this font article series has helped you discover new fonts for your own site designs. It certainly has been fun for me to review all these different fonts (and find new favorites)!