We are discussing about restaurants menus from all perspectives:

– Design

– Font

– Content

– Prices

– Materials

To make it simpler, let’s combine all these in 2 big categories – Design and Materials.

Design

What includes the design of the menu restaurant?

Pretty much everything, right?

Layout, logo (branding), pictures, fonts, colors, and even the used materials if we are talking about printed menus.

For sure you held in your hands menus that you love, but also menus that weren’t great.

A great restaurant menu, no matter if it is a digital one or a printed piece of paper, it has to be engaging, to make your customers interested to take a close look, and to be smartly created.

Let’s take one by one and enter a bit into details.

Engaging

By engaging I mean that the menu should have awesome food pictures for example.

But if you include food pictures, be 150% sure that your food will look exactly as in the pictures.

When you have food pictures in your menu, you create expectations.

Make your customers interested

Your menu can make your customers interested by using a nice design, cool fonts that are simple to read, large fonts that attract your attention, and colors.

This is not a simple task and you should work with experienced menu designers to find the best solution.

Smartly created menus

After a while, you will know perfectly which are the favorite food of your customers.

When you have this information, you will have to create a new menu and put the most popular food and drinks in such a way so your customers know what made your restaurant popular.

You can even include food pictures just for the most popular dishes your restaurant makes.

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Now getting back to the overall design, pay huge attention how you combine all these elements and what fonts you use.

Here are 6 fonts that work great in restaurants menus:

1. Baskerville
2. Helvetica
3. Lavenda
4. Molluca
5. Brandon Grotesque
6. Chambord

Be sure that you use the right font size, you want your menu to be easily read.

Also be sure to use maximum 1-2 fonts, one for the headings, and one for the paragraphs.

And regarding menu templates, it is a great idea to use them if you are just starting with your restaurant or if you don’t want to invest the money to work with a professional designer.

Materials

The feel of your restaurant menu is as important as the design.

Of course, this applies just for printed menus.

Nowadays, many restaurant menus are digital and can be read using a tablet or a smartphone.

As you probably observed, many restaurants use the most basic materials for their menus.

Most restaurants use just a thin plastic-coated paper when they should actually use leather, glossy high weight paper, cardboard, and other materials.

Conclusions

Creating restaurants menus is not complicated but you have to study a bit the industry and your competition, and of course to make many tests.

Making tests is a great way to try new ideas but absolutely always track the results of these tests, otherwise it is just lost time.

So, to get started, you should first have ready all the content that your menu will include.

Then you have 3 options:

1. Get a restaurant menu template and put your content on.

2. Hire a professional designer.

3. Start designing the restaurant menu by editing a template or by starting from scratch.

Don’t rush the process, no matter which path you choose to go on.

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And it looks like this:

I find it cool, interesting, unique, intriguing, and carefully created.

Instagram’s logo inspired Instagram Sans as the officials said and “reflects the shape of the glyph and our commitment to simplicity and craft.”

The font is made out of squares and circles, or squircles as Instagram names them.

“Instagram Sans is our new, global typeface. The glyph and wordmark inspired this custom style that nods to our heritage.”

As you will see right away, Instagram Sans is not super easy to read but it looks great, I personally love it.

Instagram Sans design

Almost every letter is fully loaded with details and when you use this font to build a word, that word is instantly recognized as an Instagram Sans word.

And this is not simple to achieve, just think about it. Most fonts are extremely similar, and words using these fonts will not look special.

At least this happens to most fonts, even to the high-expensive and premium fonts.

This is exactly why Instagram worked hard to create this super interesting fully custom font.

Launching such a font is an act of courage from Instagram.

Do you agree?

Some letters look absolutely normal while others look a bit crowded.

At least in the combination with all the other letters, when they form a word.

I cannot imagine a whole sentence with this font, but this is not the scope of this font.

The font is heavily loaded with details and it makes any word look fantastic.

IInstagram Launched Its Own Custom Font – inside info

“Instagram Sans is a contemporary remix of grotesque and geometric styles. The type is designed with accessibility and global scripts at the core, able to express a range of styles in any language.”

“Details like sheared terminals that suggest the flick of a human hand, unexpected quirks seen in the “Q” and the interior teardrop of the “a” add a friendly personality.”

“The typeface letterforms are inspired by our iconic glyph. Circular motifs, titles, and punctuation marks further connect these two elements of our brand identity.”

“Inspired by our original wordmark from 2010, and the update in 2013, we’ve developed a more contemporary approach based on our new grotesk typeface.”

As you see, Instagram team invested lots of time and resources to create their own fully custom font.

The result is impressive, most of the people loving how Instagram Sans looks and how it enhances Instagram design.

What other changes is Instagram preparing?

Instagram Sans is not the only big thing that the huge company is launching in this period.

The social media platform Instagram is also making important changes to its layout and design.

It becomes extremely clear that social media channels are reinventing themselves. People are starting to become bored and not pay attention anymore to social media ads.

And this has a huge impact on social media platforms, absolutely all of them.

The bad thing for them is that this is not the only major problem they have, but also many other types of issues – like governmental problems, tax problems, etc.

Conclusions

Instagram Sans is a nice upgrade to Instagram, making the social media channel much more unique and memorable than it was.

As we can all notice these days, the world is putting more and more accent on fonts.

They create their own custom fonts, they let you customize the text so you can read it with ease, and even more.

They even launch variable fonts like Google Roboto Flex, and much more.

Companies carefully analyze the power of fonts and they do lots of tests to improve design.

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This guide is quick and simple to follow, even if you prepare to launch your first product and you will work for the first time on your product packaging.

Get yourself a coffee and get comfortable, you will enjoy this article.

Fonts matter a lot

The font you will use is part of the product design, so you should carefully pick one that suits you perfectly. This is a process that takes a bit of time and trial, but it is totally worth it.

When you launch a product, everything should be perfect, especially the packaging.

People quickly scan products and they start to analyze products they know or they heard about or products that are interesting.

To have an interesting product, you need creative and nice packaging.

Part of the “nice” packaging is the font you will use.

This font should work excellent with your product, with the packaging, with your brand colors, style, and feeling.

So you need to know how to pick the font for your product packaging, right?

Here is what you need to know.

Picking the right font for your product packaging is simpler than it sounds

Here are all the tips or rules that you need to follow.

Avoid “bad”, “toxic”, or “racist” fonts

Are there bad and toxic fonts? Yes, there are, here are some examples:

• Comic Sans
• Impact
• Papyrus
• Bradley Hand
• Courier
• Copperplate Gothic
• Brush Script
• Times New Roman
• Gill Sans

Some of these bad fonts were used incorrectly or they are well too popular.

Fonts are all good when used correctly.

People hate these fonts and if they see such fonts on your product packaging, they might unconsciously refuse to buy.

Best is to avoid these fonts, there are millions of fonts out there, and for sure you can find great options.

Serif or sans-serif fonts?

You can use both serif and sans-serif fonts, just have in mind that you need a font that is easy to read.

Do lots of tests and ask for feedback from your family and friends.

Should you combine more fonts?

Yes, you can combine more fonts but try to use maximum of 3 fonts.

One for headings, one for paragraphs, and one for special notes on your product packaging.

If you can stick with 2 fonts, it is even better.

Font size

Before picking a font for your product packaging, check how it looks with on the size your need it.

Some fonts look great in large sizes but not so good when the text is small.

Font weight is again very important

Font weight represents how bold or light your text will appear.

There are fonts with just a few font weights while there are also fonts with many weights to choose from.

Have in mind that many times you will have to buy each font-weight you need.

Emotion

If your product is related to childhood for example, you can pick a font that revives those times and emotions.

Emotion plays a huge role in every single part of our lives, use it correctly and you will feel its power.

Do tests and try many different fonts before deciding to one

Never rush the font selection process.

Take your time and see what your product packaging looks like with all the fonts you like, and in different sizes, colors, etc.

Inspiration

See what fonts are used on all the products packaging you have in your house.

Inspiration is always useful.

Conclusions

Picking the right font for your product packaging is not complicated, follow these simple tips/rules and you will do just fine.

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In principle, if you use a font correctly, meaning that you are using it as the font designer created it to use, you cannot go wrong.

But there are plenty of fonts that are overused or that are just hated by people.

Some fonts are even considered to be racist.

So, you really don’t want to use such fonts for your projects, at least if you don’t want to trigger negative emotions.

Let’s start.

Top 7 fonts that you should avoid using

Of course, that the top 7 fonts that you should avoid using starts with the famous Comic Sans.

Comic Sans

When you look at Comic Sans you see a childish font that you can easily use for kindergartens, toy shops, and other such places.

The main issue of Comic Sans is that it looks very unprofessional and people from all parts of the world used it highly incorrect. They used in places in which Comic Sans was a very bad fit.

So, people considered the font wrong, not the fact that it was used incorrectly.

Now people from all over the world got nervous when they see Comic Sans.

Don’t use Comic Sans if you are not 200% sure of what you are doing.

Papyrus

Papyrus font did nothing wrong but it is considered ugly and poor quality.

For sure Papyrus should not be used for professional projects and I think that it should be avoided also for personal projects too.

Helvetica

Why is Helvetica in the top 10 fonts that you should avoid using article?
Helvetica is a gorgeous sans-serif font that it is widely used with great success.

I included it here because Helvetica became too familiar and there are much better options out there.

In plus, keep in mind that Helvetica might have some legibility concerns for elderly persons.

Kristen

Similar to Comic Sans, Kristen is a very childish font that you should always avoid, especially for professional projects.

Each letter is different and it is quite hard to read.

Scriptina

Scriptina is a handwriting font that is way too hard to read, people running away from this font with 300 km/h.

If you will try it for paragraphs, you will see a live nightmare.

Don’t use it.

Fraktur

As Wikipedia says: ” The Fraktur typefaces remained in use in Nazi Germany, when they were initially represented as true German script; official Nazi documents and letterheads employed the font, and the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf used a hand-drawn version of it.”

Try to avoid using this font if you don’t want trouble.

Name your business white power, use this font, and you will have a hell of a year.

Hobo

In just a few words, Hobo is a hard-to-read font.

Conclusions

We included here just some of the fonts that you should avoid using.

There are many others that you should avoid, such as:

– Ugly fonts

– Boring designs

– Way too popular fonts

– Impossible or hard to read fonts

– Racist fonts – pay huge attention to such fonts.

Such fonts can make incredible harm to your business. Gothic fonts used in the wrong context can trigger the idea of racist fonts.

When you decide to choose a certain font for your project, best is to search it on the web and see if people consider it ugly, racist, unpopular, bad, etc.

This is the best approach to make sure that you are not using fonts that you should actually avoid.

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I strongly believe that most online businesses should and can be launched extremely quick, using minimum resources (time and money.

But this is not most people do.

They like to overthink, overcomplicate things, and create problems that are not there.

Why?

Because this is how the world thinks about businesses and since we are kids, we think that it is hard to launch a business and that only the smartest people in the world can do it.

Or it is just luck.

But it isn’t, it is just hard work and smart work.

When you tell people that you want to launch a new business, you will hear the following:

– This is not the best time to launch a new business – Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, you are too old, you are too young, etc.

– Your business idea will not work.

– Why risk your money?

– Better be an employee, it is safer.

– There are tons of other similar businesses with yours.

– And the list can easily continue.

Believe in your business idea and don’t tell them that you will launch your online business in less than a day.

Here is how to do it.

Launch an online business in less than a day

Not any online business can be launched in less than a day, but there are tons of businesses to choose from that can be made quick and with minimum investment:

– Content writing

– Digital marketing

– Digital agency

– Consultancy

– Logo design

– Website design

– Translations

– Web development

– Shop

– Blog

– Digital magazine

– And others.

If you don’t have the skills for any of the above business ideas, buy the best 4-5 books on the subject, read them, and you will be good to go.

You might need to read each book at least 2 times, and take notes.

For most business ideas it is more than enough.

If you carefully read the best 4-5 books on a particular topic, you will know more than most of the people, so you can be a specialist.

What you will need to launch your online business in a couple of hours

Let’s say that you want to launch a content writing online business.

You will need:

A company

Let’s say that you have a registered company and that you can use it for your online business.

If not, no problem.

In many countries, you can start a new company in just a few hours.

Business name

Find a business name that it is short, memorable, easy to pronounce, and unique.

Put at least 10 business names down the paper and check on Google, Facebook, and Namecheap each name.

You want your business name to be 100%.

Cost: free

Domain name and hosting

I highly recommend you Namecheap but you can use any other hosting and domain name solution.

Best is to pick a .com domain.

Total cost should be around $25.

Logo

For the logo, you should use BrandCrowd logo generator or any other solution.

This one will help you with a great logo design that you can easily customize for just $15 (pay a month and then cancel the subscription).

Cost: $15

Email accounts

Easiest to use are the Google paid email accounts.

One email account can be enough.

Cost: It is 5 euro / month per email account.

Email signature

You want a professional email signature and you can do it all by yourself for free.

Use Canva for free or pick a free to use email signature generator.

Cost: free

Website

To create your website, you will use a website builder or WordPress.

Both ways are simple to use and have ups and downs.

I would pick WordPress because it is free to use and has everything you need included, including free templates.

Cost: free if you use WordPress

Fonts

Pick a font that is simple to read and that works with your business.

If you don’t know what font to use, you can easily use some of the most common fonts: roboto, helvetica, or futura.

Don’t use too large or too small sizes.

Combine maximum 2 fonts, one for the headings and one for the paragraphs.

Cost: free

Stripe and/or PayPal

You will need at least one way to get paid.

I would use Stripe as it has much better taxes than PayPal.

Cost: free

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All of these should not take you more than a day.

If you have some prior experience, you can do everything in just a couple of hours.

Remember, you should use minimum resources to launch your online business.

Test it, see how it works, and if it works as you want, then you should invest more.

If not, do another business.

Conclusions

So now you have an online business ready to work with customers.

As I said, it took you less than a day to launch it.

The next step is to promote your business and start getting paid.

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Touch Type is one of the font design tools that will revolutionize the font industry.

“You realize the tools that you use are just as important to the final result as the person who uses these tools,” says Schütz. “If you translate this to our digital tools today, people just don’t realize they are using a tool. It’s just, ‘Photoshop is everything!’ And you can do a lot [in Photoshop], but it still sets some boundaries.”

They have a long history in trying to invent new technologies.

“We like to come up with our own very basic visual ideas, and often something is not possible using common tools like Photoshop or Illustrator,” says Schütz. “If you are able to create your own tools, you really feel more free.”

“It’s kind of like learning how to ride a bike every time you create a new tool,” says Schütz. “You have to learn to use it. And it feels really great learning how to use a new tool. Like an instrument, at first it’s awkward, then you learn you can do beautiful stuff with it.”

Now let’s see how it works.

How Touch Type works

Touch Type works strictly with iOS multi-touch devices and Safari or Chrome.

To use the software, you will use up to 5 fingers, so that is why only iOS multi-touch devices are supported.

One finger tap on the screen, and you will create a letter.

With two fingers, you make the letter smaller or larger.

Using three fingers, you spin the alphabet like a rotary old phone. This is how you select the letters you want.

Four fingers will help you stretch the letter.

And with five fingers you will ticken the line of the letters so you can make it bold.

The app works excellent, it is easy to use, quick, intuitive, and more important than everything, it is enjoyable.

Touch Type is available a free demo that you can use for any purpose you want.

What is Touch Type good for?

The fonts industry is constantly changing.

In the last months and years, we say that most devices that we use let us change fonts, play with the text sizes, and much more.

Also, websites are starting to let us change fonts and the text sizes.

So, font customization is not just possible, it is almost a standard in the industry.

Now, Touch Type is a smart new way to create custom fonts in seconds, by just playing with an app.

I bet that this technology will be a hit in the world, being included on all kind of devices and software.

Just imagine having this technology available in all the software we use.

Whenever you want a certain font look and feel, you can easily create it in seconds, without paying agencies and top font designers, and without waiting weeks, and months.

This cannot be cooler than that.

Conclusions

If you haven’t played with Touch Type until now, do it because this is a technology that you will love.

It is so easy and enjoyable to play with this app, even my 4 years old boy is in love with Touch Type.

Take your iOS multi-touch device, open Touch Type and create your word out of letters that you designed with your own hand, in just a few seconds.

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This is what I would do especially if I would have a blog or an online shop.

And you should too.

Website visitors should have the possibility to change not just the fonts, but also the size of the text, the colors, the spacing, and probably more.

A better website experience means more conversions, so why don’t we all start implementing this smart feature on our websites?

Probably it is expensive as we would have to custom make everything, but is it worth going on this road?

Find the answer in this article.

The whole world started to let people choose fonts on different devices

The revolution is here, everybody understood that users should choose the fonts they like.

A few days ago, I added HBO MAX app to my Samsung TV.

In the app’s menu, I noticed a whole page dedicated to fonts.

From that page, I could easily change fonts, text size, colors, spacing, and probably more but I couldn’t memorize everything.

I loved that I can easily make all the font changes I would want so I can easily read the menu, subtitles, and everything else.

And this is not the only place/device that I noticed to have this feature.

Other devices are our mobile phones.

And the list can continue.
People are changing fonts on Instagram, on PC games, and other places too.

Let your website visitors change fonts

I don’t know how expensive or difficult it would be to let your website visitors change fonts.

This should be researched; it might be easier than we think.

And the great thing is that our websites would be among the few that offer such features to our website visitors.

For sure it is doable and I am absolutely sure that your website conversions will go up if you will implement this feature.

And websites should also be translated professionally in at least 3-4 languages if your website is used by people from all parts of the world.

Why there are still no or just a few websites that offer this feature?

Here is what I think.

People tend to copy each other and follow the simple path.

Adding this smart feature to your website is not simple and I never saw it recommend elsewhere from this article.

In plus, there are probably people out there that believe this feature is useless.

But it is not useless, it is a huge opportunity to make your website unique and much better.

If you are reading this article, find out how much costs you to add this feature on your website.

Start by offering your website visitors just a few fonts to choose from, and just a few font sizes.

This will make the work much less expensive.

After the feature is implemented, check your conversion rates.

If you see better conversion rates, improve this feature, it means that it works.

Conclusions

Websites should be improved with everything we can, even with small things, and even with potential expensive features like this one.

Advertising is more and more expensive while the ROI is going down from one year to another.

Creativity is the skill that we should all have, in plus from everything else.

Never let a website stick with the very same design if it is not working at its full potential, and always try and add useful features to your websites.

For example, let your website visitors change fonts.

There might people that prefer a larger font size, or another text color.

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When I say minimum capital, I mean sums from a few tens of dollars and up to just a few hundred dollars – maximum $500.

The reason for writing this article is to help you understand that you can do “crazy” (over $10,000 per month) businesses with minimum money.

You don’t need fancy technologies, employees, company headquarters, lots of money, or the idea that nobody else had.

All of these are usually traps that your mind is putting in front of you so it can keep you in your comfort zone.

Why launch a business with minimum capital?

Here are 4 answers to this question:

– When launching a business with minimum capital you will minimize your potential loss.

– A business can get you lots of money even if you launched it with very small amounts of money so why spend more than needed to get the same money?

– When your capital is minimum, you have to be creative and find solutions to work your way up.

– It is much easier to launch such a business than a $500,000 business.

So even if you have lots of money to invest, keep reading this article and launch your own business with just a few bucks.

Is it possible to launch a business with 0 knowledge?

Yes, it is possible and simple to do.

What I mean by 0 knowledge is that you have not even a clue about what your business industry and service.

For example, your business is teaching parents to make their kids sleep 10 hours per night.

But you don’t know anything about this, and you don’t even have kids.

How will you teach parents do something that you know nothing about?

It is very simple; you will get the knowledge.

How?

By reading for example 5 great books on that topic.

If you carefully read that great 5 books, you will know much more than 99% of the population on the subject.

After that 5 great books, you will have the needed knowledge to deliver an excellent service to parents.

Business ideas that you can start with minimum capital and 0 knowledge

All these business ideas are coming from my own experience and knowledge, and are not inspired from the internet.

You don’t need to have any knowledge or skills to start these businesses.

But of course, that you will need to get the knowledge from books.

Before I am sharing with you the information, you need to know that all these business ideas can be transformed into large companies.

All of them are small creations that can hit the sky if done right.

So here they are:

1. Sleep consultant

This is a booming business that works everywhere you are.

In plus, you can do the business from your own home and you can easily develop it into a very large company with many employees.

The industry is huge and there are very few sleep consultants.

In most countries, you don’t need to be authorized to sell sleep consultancy services but carefully check your country regulations.

2. YouTuber

To become a successful YouTuber, you need to be consistent and create lots of engaging content.

You can easily do all your videos with your mobile phone and a tripod if needed.

The trick is to put in the hard work and pick the right industry.

Most people tend to do what they like, for example stop motion.

Ok, but if you will do YouTube videos about stop motion, you will not get the money you will want.

Pick another topic that you like, or do a topic that you don’t like as much but which will get you the money you want.

3. Blogger

As statistics say, in 2021 there where over 600 million blogs.

And still, I suggest you make a blog.

There is more than enough space for your blog.

Why I say that?

Because most blogs out of these 600 million are not international blogs, and most of them are not active or any good.

If you will find a good niche and your content will be really useful for your readers, your blog will work extremely well.

A small blog can easily be turned in a top blog with huge earnings.

Many top blogs nowadays sell also courses, books, podcasts, and workshops, not just ads and sponsorships.

4. Online course

Create an online course that you sell on your very own website or on websites like Udemy.

I recommend you try the first option, publishing your course on your own website even if you will find it difficult to sell.

After you find the solutions to make it work, you will have the key to develop a large company.

5. Podcast

Launching an online podcast is a very simple to do task.

What you need is just great content.

You can create awesome content all by yourself, or by having interesting guests to your podcast.

Conclusions

All these business ideas can be individually be launched with maximum $500, some of them probably with just $50.

With that money you will get:

– Domain name – $9 per year according to Namecheap for example

– Hosting – $2 per month according to the same above company

– Website – Free – you will install WordPress

– Company – To create a company you will probably pay around $100.

– Invoicing software – Free

– Logo – Free

– Books – It depends on the books, but I recommend you buy digital and used books.

So the costs are very small as you see; what you need is just the right mindset.

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They are the backbone of all the visual content we consume every day, yet they often go unnoticed.

However, if you pay close attention, you’ll discover that fonts can be hilarious!

Here are some funny things about fonts that you may not have noticed before.

10 Cool facts about fonts

Comic Sans is a joke

Comic Sans is one of the most widely recognized and ridiculed fonts in the world. Its informal style is often used for things like party invitations or casual emails. However, it’s also used inappropriately for more formal documents, which is why designers and typographers hate it.

Helvetica is everywhere

Helvetica is the world’s most ubiquitous font. It’s used by everyone from Apple to American Airlines. Its neutral, clean style makes it a favorite among designers, but its popularity has also led to some hilarious parodies, like “Helvetica for Hipsters” and “Helvetica for Cats.”

Papyrus is the ultimate cheesy font

Papyrus is a font that looks like it was designed in ancient Egypt. It’s often used for things like yoga studio signs or “exotic” restaurant menus. However, its overuse has made it a punchline in the design world.

Wingdings are a secret code

Wingdings is a font that replaces letters with symbols, making it look like a secret code. It’s often used as a joke or to confuse people, but it can also be used to hide messages in plain sight.

Times New Roman is the default

Times New Roman is the default font for many word processors and websites. It’s often used for academic papers and other formal documents. However, its ubiquity has also led to some hilarious memes, like “Times Newer Roman” (a slightly wider version of the font) and “Times Old Roman” (a version that looks like it’s been worn down by time).

Handwritten fonts are overused

Handwritten fonts are often used to give a personal touch to designs. However, their overuse has led to some hilarious parodies, like “Hipster Script Pro” and “Ghetto Master.”

Grunge fonts are edgy

Grunge fonts are often used for music posters or other edgy designs. However, their overuse has led to some hilarious parodies, like “Hipster Grunge” and “Corporate Grunge.”

Bold fonts are attention-grabbing

Bold fonts are often used to grab the viewer’s attention. However, their overuse has led to some hilarious parodies, like “Bold and Brash” (a font made famous by the Spongebob Squarepants episode of the same name).

Serif fonts are classic

Serif fonts are often used for things like newspapers and books because they are easy to read. However, their overuse has led to some hilarious parodies, like “Baskerville Old Face” (a font that looks like it was designed in the 18th century).

Script fonts are romantic

Script fonts are often used for things like wedding invitations and love letters because they look romantic. However, their overuse has led to some hilarious parodies, like “Buffet Script” (a font that looks like it was designed by a chef).

Conclusions

In conclusion, fonts may seem like a serious business, but there’s plenty of humor to be found in the world of typography.

From the infamous Comic Sans to the ubiquitous Helvetica, there’s a font for every occasion and a joke to be made about it.

So next time you’re designing something, don’t be afraid to have a little fun with your fonts!

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The 1980s was a decade of bold and flashy designs, and typography was no exception.

Fonts from the 80s were characterized by their strong, geometric shapes, bold lines, and bright colors.

15 iconic fonts from the 80s that have stood the test of time

Helvetica

Used in the 80s, Helvetica is a classic font, both clean and modern.

It was popular in advertising and graphic design, and its simple, sans-serif style made it easy to read at any size.

Avant Garde

Avant Garde is a geometric sans-serif font that was popularized in the 80s by the magazine of the same name. Its bold, condensed letters are instantly recognizable and have become synonymous with the era.

ITC Zapf Chancery

ITC Zapf Chancery is a calligraphic font that was used in the 80s for its elegant and sophisticated style. Its flowing letters and delicate curves were often used for wedding invitations and formal announcements.

Baskerville

Baskerville is a classic serif font that was popular in the 80s for its timeless elegance. Its clean lines and traditional style made it a favorite for books and magazines.

Brush Script

Brush Script is a cursive font that was widely used in the 80s for its playful and informal style.

Logos and advertising campaigns used Brush Script.

Cooper Black

Cooper Black is a bold, rounded font that was popular in the 80s for its retro and nostalgic feel.

Advertising and poster designs were using it.

Helvetica Neue

Helvetica Neue is a modern update of the classic Helvetica font. Its clean lines and simple design made it popular in the 80s for its versatility and readability.

Futura

Futura is a geometric sans-serif font that was popular in the 80s for its clean, modern design. Its bold, straight lines and geometric shapes gave it a futuristic feel that was perfect for advertising and graphic design.

Gill Sans

Gill Sans is a classic sans-serif font that was popular in the 80s for its simplicity and readability. Its clean lines and minimal design made it a favorite for advertising and print materials.

ITC Benguiat

ITC Benguiat is a serif font that was popular in the 80s for its unique and quirky style.

Logos and album covers usually used its bold, chunky letters and decorative serifs.

OCR-A

Legibility and functionality were the most important features of OCR-A monospaced font.

Computers and printing technology were the favorite candidates for its clean, blocky letters.

ITC Lubalin Graph

ITC Lubalin Graph is a geometric font that was popular in the 80s for its bold and striking design.

Posters and advertising fields were using its strong lines and chunky letters.

Souvenir

Souvenir is a decorative serif font that was popular in the 80s for its retro and nostalgic feel.

Advertising and print materials were using its thick, curved letters and decorative flourishes.

Times New Roman

Times New Roman is a classic serif font that was popular in the 80s for its traditional and timeless style. Its clean lines and simple design made it a favorite for books and magazines.

University Roman

University Roman is a serif font that was popular in the 80s for its formal and traditional style. Its clean lines and classic design made it a favorite for diplomas and certificates.

Conclusions

The very best thing when using any of the above fonts is that you cannot go wrong with them.

They have proven over several decades that they can fit any design.

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