Your favorite font may be beautiful in a logo and exhausting across six paragraphs. Website typography has to carry the message comfortably on different screens. Personality matters, but people still need to read what you wrote.
Assign jobs before pairing fonts
Choose a dependable body typeface and a heading style that fits your brand. One family with several weights may be enough. Limit decorative fonts to short accents where they remain readable. Test real business names, numbers, punctuation, and long headings before committing.
Build a clear reading rhythm
Set a comfortable text size, line height, and content width. Use heading levels to reflect the structure of the article. Avoid giant walls of text, very light weights, and long stretches of capitals. Check that links are recognizable without relying entirely on color.
Check licensing and loading
Make sure your font license covers website use and understand how it is delivered. Load only the styles you need and use a sensible fallback. Review the page while fonts are loading, and test zoom so text does not overlap or disappear.
Your next steps
- Test fonts with your actual page content.
- Keep paragraph text comfortable on a phone.
- Use consistent heading and spacing rules.
- Confirm web licensing and required font files.
For further guidance, see W3C’s practical accessibility tutorials.
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