Design Tips - Fonts

Now that your header is complete, let's consider the overall look of your blog. Particularly FONTS.

Something to keep in mind with this: less is more.


If you've chosen a fancy font for your header, you might consider using that font in a couple of other places on your layout. For example, on this site I'm using Cherry Cream Soda as my Blog Title font, and I also use that as my Gadgets font. This is a wide, easy-to-read font and lends itself well to the simplistic look of my blog.

If I had a blog about football, I wouldn't choose a swirly font like:

Doesn't this make more sense?

Whatever font you choose, remember that it's an accent to your blog and should enhance the overall look and feel. My advice is to use your Blog Title (header) font for your Gadgets and for your Post Heading.

In my humble (and minimalistic) opinion, you should choose ONE other font, and use it for your Page Text (body of your post). This font should be simple and readable, such as Arial, Tahoma or Trebuchet. You want a "sans serif" font because they are more readable on a computer screen than "serif" fonts such as Times New Roman.

Some printing history: serifs were added to letters to help the eye move across the line in a large block of text. It's used frequently in print, but rarely used online because the serif can get lost or blurred with different screen resolutions.

Using two fonts will give your blog a more uniform, professional look and will be more inviting to a reader. And what every blogger wants is READERS, so let's get started!

Click on the Design tab, or if you've switched to the new Blogger interface, the Layout button, and click Advanced Template Designer, then click the bottom option, Advanced.

This is where you'll find the different options

Page Text is the font for the body of your post. You want this to be a san-serif font.

Blog Title is your header. Be creative.

Tabs Text is on your tabs (pages). You can change the font and the background, but not the color of the font. My advice - your sans serif font.

Post Title, self-explanatory. Consider using your Blog Title font here.

Date Header. This is considered a Gadget with regard to the font. This is where you can change its color.

Post is the font color for the body of your post

Gadgets, choose the font and color for the gadgets in your sidebar(s).

Blogger has a preview button you can click. This hides the menu and lets you see how your changes will look.

When you're ready to go back to the menu, hover over the arrow in the top middle of the screen and click on it.

Play around and make changes until you get a look you want. If you decide NOT to make changes, click Back To Blogger and no changes will be applied. Clicking Apply to Blog will make the change permanent!

Get as creative as you like, just remember to start slow. Less really IS more, especially in the beginning.

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