dominant families of letter (or text) type exist for many, years and these are Serif and
Sans Serif families:
some of the most common known families are as follows:
- serif
- sans serif
- decorative
- script
- mono spaced
| Serif
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good for text body and sometimes for header
- times
- most readable type face for text body
- garamond
- elegant and very readable as well
- good for the body
- bodoni
- walbaum
- bold like font
- not good for the text body
- good for header
- new century schoolbook
- ideal for text body
- ideal for headers as well
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| sans serif
|
are rounded and smooth and are good for Headers
- verdana
- helvetica
- avante garde
- arial
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| decorative
|
good for Banner Ads and good for Short Headers as well. They are not good for Body text
- whimsy icg
- hollyweird
- arriba
- are festive and up lifting
- party
- good for party banners and so
- bergell
- for short Banner or Headers or Ads only
- has a very nice look and feel
- fantasy
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| script
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not good for Body text can make wonderul enhancement to headers and
some area where text is used as a design element
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| monospace
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are proportional fontsgood for Body Textgood for Headers
- courier
- schmutz
- fonts like a dirty typewriter
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