I’ve always had a particularly hard time with choosing fonts. Through many of my personal art pieces over the years, picking the appropriate typography has been the aspect that trips me up the most in design.
For any classroom materials, I lean toward sans serif fonts, specifically Century Gothic. In Nick Babich’s article 7 Things to Remember When Selecting Fonts For Your Design, he notes that sans serif fonts tend to be easier for children to read. This font works for sizes small and large and is a staple in my classroom.
After browsing some of the layouts for my blog, I noticed that only a few of them allowed for changing the typography. The font on the layout that I chose is not able to be changed. The default font for the layout is a serif font, which I would have chosen myself. I lean toward serif fonts for longer posts, such as blog posts, assignments, and articles.
I tend to lean toward serif fonts as well. I try to make things as visually appealing to the reader as I can. I teach special education, so I try to make things as easy on the eye and as simple as possible. If I make things too busy, I will have lost my students before the lesson even begins. I have also had a student this year who is fully virtual and his mother chooses for him not to participate in live classes, so I prepare a weekly Bitmoji classroom that he works on in the wee hours of the morning. The fonts on the Bitmoji are sans serif fonts in large type with the least amount of words per slide as possible. He’s a new student to me and he is a non-contact virtual student, so I do what I can to make things as easy as possible!
Very thoughtful post on fonts.