Design Post #3

For this design post, I'm going to talk about fonts, and why I chose to use the fonts that I am using in this blog.

First, as an English major, I sometimes get a bit bored with standard Times New Roman fonts; it's what all of my papers are typed in, and while it holds a place in my heart, it's not quite modern enough for a casual blog like this.

So I knew I wanted a script font for the blog title to make my blog look slightly elevated and classy. Also, script fonts look feminine, which ties into the theme of this blog.  This is a font which looks very similar to the one I chose for my title. 

Courtesy of awwwards.com

However, this font is too busy for the headings and descriptions; when tracked closely with so many words, it could be difficult to read (trust me, I tried it). So I chose a more readable font, Tillana, for my heading titles and blog descriptions along the right side of the page.

Tillana courtesy of Google Fonts

Still, even Tillana looks sloppy and unreadable in large amounts of text, so for the body text, I chose a simple, standard sans serif font -- the one you're reading now!