Font Trading Cards

Something a little off the wall today...

When designing a web site we can not go wild with fonts, if for no other reason than we can not be assured the visitor will have the appropriate font installed on their computer. Thus for on-screen text it is best to stick with the common fonts such as ariel, verdana and times roman.

However, at times we may wish to use different fonts in graphics. An excellent resource for information about fonts is the www.fonts.com web site. And if you really want to learn about fonts, you could start collecting their font trading cards--available online free.