5 Fonts You Should Never Use - Graphic design tips from printplace

Hi I am Chambley, and I am a graphic designer here at printplace.com and today I am here to talk to you about five fonts you should never use. First up on the list is Comic Sans. The font isn't really that bad when used appropriately. But by appropriately I mean only for children's birthday party invitations and the horrible office printed do not enter signs. It should never be used for corporate products or any mail that you plan on sending to customers. Comic Sans gives the reader a please don't take me too seriously vibe. You can replace it with a visually more relaxing font. A font that has a bit of informal meets formal. Try replacing your Comic Sans with Lexia Readable. Next up is Papyrus, the mega man of bad fonts. Avoid this font if you want to be taken seriously. It has no place in any of your business/corporate print products. The odd, rough texture gives the font an irritating view for the reader's eye. This font has been overly used for everything, from business logos to church pamphlets. You can replace it with a font that has similar qualities without the annoying rough texture. Try Florentine. It's a beautiful font that still has some of the characteristics that you like about papyrus. Third, we have brush script, the most used script font, especially for anything baseball or sports related. It's supposed to simulate a person's handwriting with an ink brush. But really it's graceless and doesn't visually flow very well for any reader's eye. Try replacing it with a font that has more of an actual handwritten quality, or with a better visual movement. Go ahead and try out southern aire. Number four on the list is impact. It's too think, too focused, and too amateurish to stand out. It's overly used as a headline font. Go for a wider, more readable font. You can try bebas neue. It looks really great, isn't too thin and still is bold enough to use as a headline font. Last but not least, a font that everyone is familiar with, times new roman. It's the boring information font, because it was a default font The microsoft word program up until 2007 is highly overused for body copy text. Because readers are so used to seeing this font in high volume information areas, i.e., the newspaper, their eye tends to overlook or ignore any information that you set in this font. There's So many other fantastic fonts you could use for large bodies of text, or even bold headlines. Try replacing it with a similar serif font that has a elegant, less dated look. I like to replace mine with Sanford. To download my suggested fonts, Follow the links in the description below. Don't forget to subscribe and stay tuned next Friday for more tips from PrintPlace.com.