Font Pairing Exercise

Choose two fonts from Google fonts that will be a good pair for a heading font and a body text font. You may wish to choose yet another highly styled font for a ‘title font’ as well.

Things to consider with your pairing and simple web page created:

  • Have a heading font and body font
  • Use your color palette from the color shading exercise to color your heading font and a link in the body text example.
  • For your link, create both :link state and :hover states, they should differ so the user recognizes the text as a link.
  • Finally as stretch goals, use variables and consider space and scale
    • Use Variables: the :root selector and --color-varname property and var(--color-varname) value in your css.
    • Have your title font be much larger, consider letter and word spacing
    • Have there be space between sections to clearly differentiate a heading with a body of text
    • Finally consider line height with your body text
    • Wrap your sections with a main element and set a max-width for readability and center with the margin: 0 auto css trick.

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By Michael Branson Smith

Michael Smith is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Communications Technology program at York College. Prof. Smith hosts a personal digital archive project blog on Commons titled It Cannot Be Trivial.

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