4 Font Pairing Myths

4 Font Pairing Myths

Find below 4 font pairing myths that will help you make better choices in terms of font.

4 Font Pairing Myths

It is important you to know these myths as they probably impacted the way you think about choosing fonts.

Before going to the subject, let’s find out how are myths created.

How are myths created?

Myths are created by influencers (priests, doctors, starts, professionals, television, radio, etc.) that say their opinion on a particular subject.

An influencer can be also mom or dad, a close friend, our teacher, and so on.

Most times, we take information by granted.

If a huge magazine says something, it means that is true. If a pharmacist recommends us a particular medicine, we buy it. This is how big pharma companies sell their drugs. They offer incentives to pharmacists to recommend their products.

So how are myths created?

Now we know who are creating myths.

It is very simple how myths are created.

An influencer says something like the first myth in our list: don’t use different font designs in the same layout.

Because he is a successful designer, we take the information by granted.

And then we share this information over and over.

We write it in blog posts, we say it to our friends, we share it on tv, and so on.

And in this way, we spread a myth, without knowing it.

That is why it is highly important to verify all the important information.

At least the information that affects our work, health, or families.

Now let’s see the 4 font pairing myths.

Myth 1 – Don’t use different font designs in the same layout

Conservative designers say that we should not use different font designs in the same layout.

If you will carefully study the strengths and details of the fonts you want to use, you can achieve very different tones of voice.

This could work fantastic in some designs.

Some examples can be a newspaper, a brochure, or a magazine.

Myth 2 – Use the same type family in throughout your design

Yes, it is the easiest and safest way.

Pick a type family and use it throughout your design. Nothing can go wrong.

But if you make some cool font pairs, your overall design will look incredibly better.

Do as many tests as possible and pick the right font pairs.

Myth 3 – Don’t use very similar font designs

This is a highly common belief.

Designers recommend not to mix two very similar font designs in the same layout. They consider it a primary and newbie error, as the audience will notice the differences and consider it a mistake.

When using this technique correctly, you can create a coherent virtual system.

Just pay attention to what you are doing.

Myth 4 – Always use sans for heading, and serif for body text

While it is true and proved that sans work extraordinary for headers, and serif fonts work perfectly for body text, that doesn’t mean that you cannot replace the two.

New fonts are being launched each day, and some of them can easily be a perfect fit for both headers and body text.

What you should do to make sure that your font selection works great is to make a lot of tests.

Conclusions

Just imagine how many people don’t do things better just because of the above myths.

They don’t want to make mistakes by not respecting the rules.

Since we are kids, we know that we have to follow the rules.

One of the best advices that I can offer you is to always find your own way of doing things.

This is how the world got invented.

Now, because of the internet and the huge diversity of books, we tend to learn everything from others, not trying our bests to find solutions and new ways of better-doing things.

Try to achieve as much as possible by using your own ideas.