Fonts and typefaces
What are the connotations of the following fonts: Comic sans: For a younger audience, cartoon, fun, colourful. This font has softer edges and bolder letters making it easier to read and more informal. Times new roman: More sophisticated, harder edges to the font, sharper, cleaner and more formal. This is likely to be used when trying to be more professional, historical and ancient connotations. "font" and "typeface" are two terms that are often incorrectly used interchangeably. A font is one particular weight and style of a larger typeface. Typefaces are categories comprised of many different fonts. For example, serif is a type face, and times new roman is a font that is part of the serif family. There are a variety of different typefaces and fonts. Serif: identifiable by the small lines on the edges of letters (called serifs) that make the font easier to read in print. Fonts in the Serif typeface include Times new roman, Georgia, and Book Antiqua. San seri...
