10 Font Combination Tips That Will Save Your Design

It has never been easy to find the perfect font for various design projects. Finding the perfect font to add that complete touch to your project demands a sort of professional approach. Never overlook the importance of fonts and how it could directly affect the outcome or the reaction of others toward your project. But don’t worry, I got your back with these 10 simple font combination tips to rock your designs. *Don’t forget to check out the fonts used below each tip! You can find them all on Designs.net.

1. There are 4 general types of classification

It’s important for you to know these 4: Sans Serif (the minimalistic ones), Serif (the ones with little feet in the bottom and hat on the top), Decorative (the crazy ones) and Script (the fancy ones).

Fonts used:

Amoreiza

Carnavonts

Pertiwi Script

Menighampiil

2. Mix Serif and Sans Serif

This mix is a classic and it gives off the best results when used for large texts on booklets, brochures, blogs, and even your school essays.

Fonts used:

Adolfine

Menighampiil

3. Make them contrast.

A Sans Serif and a Script can be best friends even though they’re of different styles. Haven’t you heard that opposites attract?

Fonts used:

Raquella

Flamingo

4. Do not combine very similar fonts.

Because what’s the point, right? And also, it might make your text look misaligned or seem like there’s spacing problems.

Fonts used:

Creemy Moony

Quish

5. Play with the same family of fonts.

This might sound like I’m contradicting the previous point. However, if you take Helvetica Light and Helvetica Condensed Black, do they look like similar fonts? They don’t. Just try it. AND they’re from the same family.

Fonts used:

Oracles

6. Do not mix moods.

Make sure you never mix a Permanent Marker kind of font with a fancy Script font, because although they look good on their own, they would look disastrous together. Just trust me on this.

Fonts used:

Quella

Brushcheeta

The Arms Race

7. Use complementary moods

Again, a Sans Serif and a Script or Decorative font is a good idea here.

Fonts used:

Adolfine

Honey & Spice

8. Play with the kerning.

But don’t abuse it. You don’t have to stick with the original spacing between the letters of every font. Believe it or not, you can actually play around with it, just be sure to keep the balance.

Fonts used:

Gustavo

Adolfine

9. Limit number of fonts.

Now, I know you might have the most kick ass collection of fonts in your computer, but please limit the usage of them to 2 or 3 per project and no more! Otherwise, everyone will know you are a newbie.

Fonts used:

Companion

Leaderson

Loverstr

Zombie Dust

10. Never use these fonts

No matter what you do, just don’t do it. Unless you want to look like an amateur, then go ahead.

Fonts used:

Amoreiza