Looking forward to being able to use it on a website, too. I've been using this one a lot lately in my "Step Away from the Screen" designs. It's a beautifully designed font that is well-built so it looks great on the web and also in print.
Clean and simple, with graceful thicks and thins.Ī great retro font with a strong, letterpress, wood-type feel. But it's a more vertical font which makes it feel very current.Īnother nice script font that isn't too flowery or showy or decorative. It's a graceful, modern font with curvy slab serifs (like Clarendon). I'm not a huge fan of the lowercase "w" but other than that, I love it. But The League of Moveable Type has added many weights to the family and now it's a fantastic clean sans serif font. Originally it only had the light weight which meant it wasn't versatile enough for most jobs. This font just keeps getting better and better. Not something many script fonts can achieve. Very cartoony, but if used correctly, it can be very clean and bold. One of my favorites - I love having the opportunity to use it. And the tall x-height and points at the ends of some of the letters give this font such a modern feel. I love the way this font's curves are slightly squared off. It's built better.Īnother nice sans serif. I prefer Bebas Neue to the original Bebas. Just a good, clean, strong, sans serif, all caps headline font. That gives this font a subtlety that most slab serifs don't have. And I like that the serifs aren't too large. I love how it manages to be both strong and graceful. This is a really well-designed slab serif font. Love the way this one looks at large sizes with the curves in its serifs. But I also love using fonts that are typically text fonts for headlines. I use Trade Gothic in my designs a lot, and this font is a great web-safe version of that. I love the retro feel of this non-decorative sans serif font. In my opinion, this font is worth the price of admission to Typekit.
I use this for almost everything because it looks so much like Gotham (which isn't available as a webfont) and I use Gotham in so many of my designs. Here are Laurie's best picks for web fonts and her notes below each:
Even better? Most of these fonts are FREE! Laurie, that's why we love you.
We asked if she would share her 10 favorite fonts for the web, and she gave us 12. If you have ever had the pleasure of taking one of her classes, you already know she has gobs of information to share about design. At Alt Channel we have a lot of amazing teachers, and I couldn't think of anyone better to start the series off with a bang. One of our favorite pros is the amazing Laurie Smithwick, of Leap Design, our graphic design guru. Here on the blog we've asked the pros to share their expertise and give the Alt community some tips and tricks.
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