Typography

Prefer Standard Fonts for Your Website

When designing a website, we’re often tempted to use custom webfonts to make it stand out. Yet, the French collective for a responsible design of digital services provides one simple rule in their referential for web ecodesign:

Use standard typefaces

translated from Référentiel d'écoconception web (FR), Collectif Conception responsable de service numérique

Let’s have a look at what’s behind this rule.

Formatting Dialogue

Following the usual rules when writing a dialogue in a piece of fiction makes it so much easier to read. Fortunately, those rules are quite straightforward. Much more so than their French equivalent.

Choose Your Font for Coding

We developers often spend a great deal of attention choosing our tools: computer, editors… Yet, we often fail to see the gain of choosing an appropriate font.

Here is some food for thoughts on this topic, and some of my favorite coding fonts.