These fonts all have a healthy amount of characters included.

Completeness of character sets - at it's most basic level, a typeface needs to have all of the characters you need for your project.

Does it work for long running text being read?

Appropriateness for digital projects - how do they look on screen.

If you were to be limited to only five typefaces, these would help you address most projects.

The aim of this post is point out five typefaces available on Google Fonts that should serve you well. You will certainly be moving along with a design a lot faster if you only have to pick from a handful of great fonts, rather than sifting through hundreds of mediocre fonts.Īs a popular resource for free web fonts, Google Fonts has a glut of typefaces that, shall we say, have limited use. It's not a bad idea, in this age of widely available digital fonts. He felt he could address the tone of any project with these five choices.

He knew how extensive those typefaces were, what their strengths were, and where they were weak. Why would a designer place such a constraint on himself, especially considering the breadth of his career? Typefaces are a tool to be used in design, and he knew these tools well. The late, great graphic designer Massimo Vignelli famously used only five typefaces in his career. If you could only have five Google Fonts: Chip Cullen Chip Cullen If you could only have five Google Fonts August 20, 2014

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