Fun Fonts

The web is becoming more fun.  Social media is infusing the internet with large doses of the human touch in so many ways. 

One of the ways that designers are looking to make websites more fun is the use of new fonts.  Since we have been stuck with the same few font families that can be read across browsers and computers, we have gotten pretty bored.

In my last entry, I talked about sketchy design and how we are seeing more hand drawn graphics on line.

I came across is a resource for free hand-drawn fonts.  There are many categories of hand-drawn fonts on this site, and I downloaded one to create the graphic for “recent updates” in my website’s top banner.

An exciting new free service of Google is the Google Font Directory (beta).  It offers 18 new fonts that designers and developers can integrate into the CSS of the website.  I’m using one of these fonts for my large headers on this site.

The one down-side to using these embedded fonts is that there are going to be a few older browsers that won’t support it.  In that case, the browser will use the next available font in the CSS font stack for that website.

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