| It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts when | | | | your site WAS about Harry Potter. In that case it |
| designing a web page. After all, the fancier the font | | | | would be okay to maybe have some words using |
| the more attractive it will be to visitors and the more | | | | that font, such as maybe headings and the first word |
| likely they will be to stay at your page once they've | | | | of each paragraph. But the majority of your text you |
| gotten there. Actually, the reverse is often true.Most | | | | would still need to be in easy to read font. This way |
| people go to a web page because they are | | | | you capture the flavor of the Harry Potter world and |
| interested in the information that is there, either an | | | | still give your readers an easy to read experience.Size |
| article they want to read about something or maybe | | | | is another issue about fonts. Not everybody has |
| it's a product or service site that requires them to | | | | 20-20 vision. You don't want the fonts on your page |
| navigate through a number of pages to find the | | | | to be too small. If they are, some people are going |
| product or service that they are looking for. The last | | | | to have a difficult time reading the material on the |
| thing they want to do is have to battle with the font | | | | page. A good size for a paragraph font is about 12 to |
| on the page because it is difficult to read.There are | | | | 14 point. Headings can be a little bigger, maybe |
| several things that make fonts easy or hard to read | | | | between 16 and 20 point. By keeping the size of |
| and each one is equally as important.Fonts are made | | | | your font within normal parameters you give your |
| up of many properties but the most important of | | | | visitors the best chance of an easy read of your |
| these are type, size and color.The type of font | | | | page.Finally, we have color. The last thing you want |
| refers to how the font characters themselves are | | | | to do is put a light colored font on a light colored |
| displayed. The most common fonts are Times New | | | | background, like pink on yellow. That is a sure way to |
| Roman and Ariel because they are the most easy to | | | | make your visitors go blind. You want your font color |
| read. The reason they are the most easy to read is | | | | and the background color of the page to be in |
| because they are plain and simple. There is nothing | | | | contrast 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 the | | | | too close to each other. The greater the contrast |
| fonts used in the Harry Potter movie series. They | | | | the 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 whole | | | | assure your visitors of the most pleasant experience |
| page of Harry Potter fonts could become a reading | | | | possible when visiting your pages. |
| nightmare for a visitor to your site.Now, suppose | | | | |