Help with choosing a font for a headline

Design & UX
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I’m looking for help/suggestuons with choosing a font for a headline on a web page.
I’d like the headline to be all lower case, and be clean and professional looking.
I like helvetica, but I’d don’t love it. Any thoughts?

2

Maybe have a look at the Google sans-serif fonts: https://www.google.com/fonts

3

Thanks for that tip/link. Much appreciated.
So, I choose a google font for a text headline) and added the google link between <head> and <head>, and added the font to my css, but it seems when I am on my web pages, if I back arrow to the home page the headline font isn’t the google font anymore. I have to close and refresh to bring it back. Weird. Any ideas? Can i download the actual font and add it to a folder, rather than use the google link?

4

No, you can’t do that with Google fonts. Other sites like FontSquirrel have fonts you can actually dowlnload and place on your site. Have you got a link to the site? That’s not the normal behavior. Make sure to add the Google link to the head of all pages (unless it’s just being used on one page, I guess, though that would be odd.)

5

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have this:

<head>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arimo' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>

And I even put the font inline in the html to see if that helped:

<html>
<font size="5px" color="#be7e7e" font face="Arimo">test</font>
</html>

Do you see anything wrong with what I’m showing here?

6

Ech, don’t do that, please. It’s horribly outdated. Just stick to declaring fonts in your CSS.

7

Hey man, you should use something based on Sans Serif style. It’s really clean and it looks very professional, good luck :slight_smile:

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