Blog #23 My favourite fonts
Fonts. Those things that change how curly the letters in your text are. In this post, I’m going to share my favourites, which scenarios I use them in and a few tips on getting the most out of them.
Choosing the right font can be a make or break decision in your designs; transforming an average piece of text to a neat and stylish design choice, if you use the right font. Here are the ones I keep coming back to:
Modern no. 20
This is a new favourite for me. This font has an educated and interesting look. It’s versatile, modern and can be used as a header in a video easily. I usually use it in short-form content, putting a short line of text in a coloured box with some text in it posing a question. This font sells the question as meaningful and valuable. It conveys a sense of having useful information inside and looks stylish on top of rolling video. Try it out yourself, I didn’t give it the respect it deserved for a long time.
Arial Black
This is one I’ve been enjoying a lot as well recently. It’s one that sits in the background of the long list of fonts but is really useful. It is plain but doesn’t give the boring and unprofessional look some other fonts do. Or you may just be sick of using Times New Roman! I’ve enjoyed using it as a main title for video because it conveys a sense of authority, while stile having a sleek design.
Onyx
Onyx is a font I have used for profile images/covers. It is very modern and stylish. Plus the tightness of it means it can fit into tight spaces, such as low-resolution profile images, snugly. It looks good when used minimally; which means you don’t have to do too much extra work on the background to make the whole image look good. A lot of people use this on their profile images, it’s consistent and fashionable.
(Custom) Supertalls
This is one you may need to download onto your computer. I downloaded this and have fallen in love with it. I use it as a captions font for short-form content. It’s very modern and fashionable. Not exactly professional in most settings but looks really sharp from a content point of view. It’s very popular with content creators and gives a fun vibe to an otherwise lifeless text box.
Times New Roman
We’ve all used this font. It is our first font and holds up well today. I use this for day-to-day situations, which it works best for. I try and stay away from using it for more important “design“ work, such as text in videos or some professional documents. But it is very professional regardless and is always a safe bet to use when you want to work on something serious and important.
See all the fonts below!
Modern no. 20 font
Arial Black font
Onyx font
Supertalls font
Times New Roman font
Tips:
On most editors, you can change the size of individual words in your text.
This will allow you to show the importance of a word in the middle of a phrase. You can also change 1. colour. 2. width scaling and 3. italics on each individual word, spicing up your text and grabbing people’s attention.
Try changing the composite mode of your text in your video editor. It may give new life to your text. You can even try putting a video composited behind the text—which will create a cool texture behind the text.
That’s it for fonts, I hope you took something away that can add depth to your next design. Thanks for reading and if you’ve any comments, let me know down below.
Good luck out there.
-D.C.