Whether you realise it or not, you’re designing every day. Whether it be be a simple document, an updated resume or a presentation, you’re making design choices about typefaces and layout. These decisions can have a significant impact that makes your work more compelling, or they can turn it into a boring, lifeless turd. Here’s how you can use a few simple design principles to quickly improve the way you use type and layout in your everyday work.
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’ve ever hacked around in your computer’s terminal or command prompt, you’ve had moments where there’s way too much text to fit on your screen. ProFont, made especially for terminals and programming, is meant to be tiny, so you can read lots of data all at once.
We’re all about simple and elegant font choices, but sometimes you need to liven up your designs. The Miss Tina Fonts (MTF) Collection can help you do just that with free options ranging from simple and casual to silly and fun — and they’re all free.
If you’re a designer or just curious to see what fonts are used on your favourite websites, the free Chrome extension ‘What’s the font?’ reveals this information easily. After installing the extension you just need to right-click the highlighted text with the font you want to identify and choose the menu option for ‘What’s the font?’.
The Amazon Kindle ereader app is arguably the best way to read ebooks on your Android phone or tablet, but the one drawback is that you can’t change fonts. The default font is pretty darn decent for the screen — DroidSerif if you were wondering — yet still has the vital flaw of being a serif font.
