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Re:Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 by eneifert on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:21AM (#8635776)
Top notch article thanks for posting. Thanks for pointing out those fonts, I feel like finding good fonts is always a struggle for me. Anyone have any other suggestions like these?
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Re:Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 by danenania on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:46AM (#8635916)
One way is getting a typekit subscription and checking out their font lists [1]. Aside from providing many excellent fonts, there are good descriptions of mood properties and historical context that can really help to choose something appropriate.

1 - https://typekit.com/lists

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Re:Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 by interfacesketch on Thursday November 20, 2014 @01:41PM (#8637300)
Anyone have any other suggestions like these?

Source Sans Pro is Adobe's first open source typeface and was designed by Paul D Hunt. It was specifically designed for user interfaces, and is available in multiple weights. I think the regular weight also works well for body text.

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=...

The font is also available on Google fonts

Shameless plug: I use Source Sans Pro on my website if you want to see an example of what it looks like for body text and headlines :-)

http://www.interfacesketch.com/

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Re:Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 by mark-r on Thursday November 20, 2014 @12:58PM (#8637066)
Whenever I find a font on a page that looks interesting, I highlight it and go to Chrome's Inspect element Computed tab to get the font name. As the blog says, steal like an artist.
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