Choosing a Font for Your Work
- pennarchtank
- Nov 6, 2018
- 2 min read
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While the primary focus of your portfolio or work should be your designs, having an appropriate font helps to make you presentation look more seamless and pulled together. Particular fonts can also help to create an overall feeling for your work making it look more playful or more professional depending on what you choose.
Sans Serif or Serif?
There are two main families of fonts – serif and sans serif. Serif refers to the little feet or overhangs on the edges of letters, so fonts that have this like Times New Roman, Georgia, and Garamond are serif and fonts that don’t like Helvetica, Futura, and Myriad Pro. Serif fonts usually make it easier to read paragraphs because it helps your eyes align to each line in the paragraph while sans serif fonts generally give off a cleaner and more modern look than the serif cousins.
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What Font Should I Choose?
Safe bets for architectural portfolios are fonts like Helvetica, Avenir, or Futura which give off a clean and neutral look. However, these fonts only come loaded on Macs, so unless you want to spring the cash to buy one of these fonts (or get it some other nefarious way), good Windows alternatives are fonts like Gill Sans or Franklin Gothic. Personally I would avoid the typically loaded fonts like Calibri, Myriad Pro (in the Adobe Suite), Arial, or Times New Roman in your work. Ultimately, the choice of font is up to you and the look you want to create and it can be a very personal thing to choose so we’ve listed a few links below for some design options for you to look at and start developing your own taste in font and design.
Alternatives to Helvetica for Our Windows Friends
Free Fonts for Graphic Design
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