How to Choose a Font for your Brand
Personality is a huge part of building a brand. You can express your brand's personality through a variety of ways, one of which is by the typeface. In this post, we will take a look at how to choose a font for your brand.
Don't underestimate the power of fonts, they can engage people just as much as they can put people off - so it is important to pick the right font. Assisting with personality and tone of voice your fonts will appear in your logo (if your logo uses text), strapline, website, creative material, adverts and more!
Complimentary Brand Fonts
There will be different parts of your brand where you will want to use different fonts. If you had a website that used one font in the same size and style throughout, it wouldn't look appealing - the same if you went font crazy and used loads of different styles and sizes.
If you decided to use different fonts you will want to choose a minimal amount, perhaps two or three and make sure they work well together and don't look out of place.
For example, your logo could use a different font to your strapline, which is both different from the text throughout your site. Your logo and strapline can utilise more decorative and stylised fonts as they will only appear a few times throughout your brand and material. The rest of your content should use a font that's more easily read when forming a wall of text, however, you will still want this font to continue to express your brand's personality.
Font Personality
Just like your brand's colour palette, fonts are a brilliant way to express your brand's personality and have an impact on emotion.
Before we take a look into what font to choose, you will want to understand the five classifications of typefaces; serif, sans serif, script, display and monospaced.
Serif
Serif is one of the oldest typefaces, it features extra stokes at the end of letters, often referred to as feet.
