WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.594 There are a lot of fonts. If you go to a design tool, you'll notice that 00:00:03.594 --> 00:00:07.440 there are hundreds or dozens of different fonts. 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.378 But most of them are useless, and most of them are fonts that you should never use. 00:00:12.378 --> 00:00:18.153 So, if you're just starting and if  you're not really comfortable with design yet, 00:00:18.153 --> 00:00:21.920 you should completely always avoid decorative fonts, 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.994 handwriting fonts, and in most cases serif fonts as well. 00:00:25.994 --> 00:00:29.241 And I know this sounds really crazy and over the top, 00:00:29.241 --> 00:00:32.637 but most serif fonts are not really that easy to work with, 00:00:32.637 --> 00:00:38.316 and you need to be able to set the spacing and leading, kerning and everything 00:00:38.316 --> 00:00:43.160 in the proper way for them for the digital interfaces to work well. 00:00:43.315 --> 00:00:49.338 So, it's best for the initial time that you're working on your designs to just *stick to sans serifs*. 00:00:49.338 --> 00:00:53.349 And I have a short list of fonts that are basically safe. 00:00:53.349 --> 00:00:56.313 There is a couple more – you can find them somewhere, but 00:00:56.313 --> 00:00:59.357 you don't really need a lot more when you're starting. 00:00:59.357 --> 00:01:03.509 If you're testing your design skills, if you're learning design, 00:01:03.509 --> 00:01:07.171 a couple of these fonts are all you need, and especially right now 00:01:07.171 --> 00:01:11.080 if you're looking for a good free font, I would recommend Plus Jakarta Sans 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:15.034 because it's one of the better-looking fonts out there, it's completely free 00:01:15.034 --> 00:01:17.941 and it looks good in most scenarios. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.440 So, don't use those decorative fonts, don't use those fancy fonts, 00:01:21.474 --> 00:01:24.728 because the simpler they are, the better they look. 00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:30.722 And another thing about font is that somehow people have this notion of thinking 00:01:30.722 --> 00:01:37.155 that if a font is thin or light, it's kind of synonymous with minimal design, 00:01:37.155 --> 00:01:41.802 and that minimal design like the Swiss style – you know – super-minimal design 00:01:41.802 --> 00:01:46.072 was actually pushed by Apple at some point with iOS 7 00:01:46.072 --> 00:01:50.663 if what I remember is correct, but they quickly reverted to that 00:01:50.663 --> 00:01:55.283 because those fonts don't really display well on most screens. 00:01:55.283 --> 00:01:58.742 They are too thin, and they are basically not readable. 00:01:58.742 --> 00:02:03.130 So, just *go for regular and bold in most cases* 00:02:03.130 --> 00:02:06.360 and don't go  for those thin and light fonts in your designs. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.769 Because as you can see here, it's just a lot  easier to read the window on the right side. 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:18.245 And also, if you're starting, don't create a  ton of different font sizes. 00:02:18.245 --> 00:02:22.887 You should have like a heading, a smaller heading and everything else as just one font. 00:02:22.887 --> 00:02:27.657 So, in practice this is another like a pop-up window that shows 00:02:27.657 --> 00:02:33.045 a couple of different elements, and we have just one size for the title. 00:02:33.045 --> 00:02:37.877 And then the second size with different weights – one is bold; the rest are regular – 00:02:37.877 --> 00:02:40.354 is used for all of the other things. 00:02:40.354 --> 00:02:45.621 And if we switch it to four different font sizes on a small window like that, 00:02:45.621 --> 00:02:49.576 it's going to make our brain think, 'Oh my God – I need to process all that!' 00:02:49.576 --> 00:02:55.613 So, *just make it easy for the brain and just switch it to a much simpler option* 00:02:55.613 --> 00:02:59.749 because it's just always going to work better, and of course, a lot of the rules that I'm going to 00:02:59.749 --> 00:03:04.693 share with you are rules that you can break once you feel confident about breaking them. 00:03:04.693 --> 00:03:07.840 So, *when you're just starting, just don't break them*.