Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010)

Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by jastanton on Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:16PM (#7693083)

Does anyone have a list of good web fonts you can use together? I like all of these principles and their examples but sometimes I just need a reference to pick out a stack and apply it to my site. Something like "The Big Book of Font Combinations" but for web that shows a breakdown of font stacks supported by which devices or something. Thoughts?

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by BorisMelnik on Saturday May 03, 2014 @11:52PM (#7693230)

weird I just ran across this:

http://www.sitepoint.com/joy-of-subsets-web-fonts/

10 minutes later I found this thread.

the URL hashbanged mentioned looks very well put together. I like being able to see some "texture" behind my fonts before putting them into action.

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by lifeformed on Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:41AM (#7694603)

The Google Fonts page has some recommended pairings for each font: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans#pairings

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by didgeoridoo on Sunday May 04, 2014 @12:28PM (#7694792)

I believe these pairings are based on the frequency they appear together on the web — not on any kind of aesthetic or functional judgment. I would take them with an enormous grain of salt.

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by nilliams on Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:43AM (#7694609)

Thanks for this, somehow I've never seen this before!

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by hashbanged on Saturday May 03, 2014 @11:09PM (#7693165)

My go to resource for a fast combination of Google Web Fonts is this:

http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

Not a huge resource, but it is sort of what you're asking for.

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by nevir on Sunday May 04, 2014 @10:11PM (#7696695)

Similar, but doesn't directly answer your question:

http://practicaltypography.com/mixing-fonts.html http://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html

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Re:Best Practices of Combining Typefaces (2010) by Eriksrocks on Sunday May 04, 2014 @12:34AM (#7693279)

I know this isn't what you are looking for, but generally I've found that playing around with Typecast.com for just a few minutes gets me to something that I like and that fits whatever site I'm designing for. Pick a few fonts from the Popular fonts category, and play around until you find something that you like.

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