Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Chapter 30. Choose a Typeface

Dwiggins’ cry to the gods is one with which we are all familiar. Even though there are more than 50,000 typefaces available to us, finding the perfect font for a particular job can be a stressful task. Or more likely it is because we have 50,000 fonts to choose from that the task often appears monumental. There are steps you can take, though, to narrow the selection down to a handful of appropriate choices.