HTML Font Tips

It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts whenyour site WAS about Harry Potter. In that case it
designing a web page. After all, the fancier the fontwould be okay to maybe have some words using
the more attractive it will be to visitors and the morethat font, such as maybe headings and the first word
likely they will be to stay at your page once they'veof each paragraph. But the majority of your text you
gotten there. Actually, the reverse is often true.Mostwould still need to be in easy to read font. This way
people go to a web page because they areyou capture the flavor of the Harry Potter world and
interested in the information that is there, either anstill give your readers an easy to read experience.Size
article they want to read about something or maybeis another issue about fonts. Not everybody has
it's a product or service site that requires them to20-20 vision. You don't want the fonts on your page
navigate through a number of pages to find theto be too small. If they are, some people are going
product or service that they are looking for. The lastto have a difficult time reading the material on the
thing they want to do is have to battle with the fontpage. A good size for a paragraph font is about 12 to
on the page because it is difficult to read.There are14 point. Headings can be a little bigger, maybe
several things that make fonts easy or hard to readbetween 16 and 20 point. By keeping the size of
and each one is equally as important.Fonts are madeyour font within normal parameters you give your
up of many properties but the most important ofvisitors the best chance of an easy read of your
these are type, size and color.The type of fontpage.Finally, we have color. The last thing you want
refers to how the font characters themselves areto do is put a light colored font on a light colored
displayed. The most common fonts are Times Newbackground, like pink on yellow. That is a sure way to
Roman and Ariel because they are the most easy tomake your visitors go blind. You want your font color
read. The reason they are the most easy to read isand the background color of the page to be in
because they are plain and simple. There is nothingcontrast to each other, like black on white or even
fancy about them as opposed to a font like, say,white on black. You won't want the two colors to be
Potter, which is an excellent representation of thetoo close to each other. The greater the contrast
fonts used in the Harry Potter movie series. Theythe easier it will be for your visitors to view your
may look real cool but they are not easy to read.site.By keeping these few simple things in mind you
Maybe for a word or two, no problem. But a wholeassure your visitors of the most pleasant experience
page of Harry Potter fonts could become a readingpossible when visiting your pages.
nightmare for a visitor to your site.Now, suppose