Tuesday 10 September 2013

Web fonts vs Commercial fonts + 150 great web typefaces

Web fonts vs Commercial fonts + 150 great web typefaces

Commercial fonts or free fonts?, this is a big dilemma that afflicts many designers as they find difficult to decide between beautiful but expensive fonts such as Helvetica or Futura and free fonts like the ones featured on Google Web Fonts, which also have a really nice design but will never be like the originals.

This post more than being an extensive article where we discuss the benefits of free and commercial fonts wants to offer you a pleasant time through an amusing game where you must choose between different options and find out which option is the correct, just like the old Pepsi vs Coke commercials that we saw many years ago. Let’s see how much you know about typefaces!. After the game, you will find a great list featuring some of the nicest web fonts available nowadays for your inspiration. Also if you like these fonts you will find pretty useful our last project Best web fonts, a handpicked selection of the best fonts from Google web fonts.



The exercise goes like this: In every point you’re going to find two typefaces, one commercial and one from the Google Web Fonts library, you must try to guess which option corresponds to the original commercial font, let’s see how much do you know about typefaces.

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