Fonts come in all shapes and sizes. Characteristics like thickness, slant, width, roundness, and decoration contribute to a font’s personality. Display fonts are the ones with the biggest personalities. They are designed to to stand out, and are often bold, quirky, and artistic. Display fonts aren’t meant to be used in long sentences or paragraphs since they tend to be difficult to read at small sizes. Display fonts work best for large titles and headings. They can set the tone and boost communication.
The fonts listed below are all Google Fonts. Their characteristics and personality evoke feelings and connections to specific seasons.
Google Fonts can be added to Google Workspace documents (Docs, Slides, Drawings, Forms, Sites, and Sheets). For example, with a text box selected in Google Slides, click the Fonts menu in the toolbar. Click More fonts, and type the name of the font. Checkmark the font, and click OK. Now the font shows up in your Fonts menu!
Google Fonts can also be downloaded for free and used on computers. Go to fonts.google.com and search for a font’s name. After clicking to open the font’s page, click Download Family. Now you can use the downloaded file to install the font onto your computer. The font will be available in apps like PowerPoint, Word, Keynote, and Pages. You may need to restart so that the font shows up in the app.
First Bonus
Google has nearly 400 display fonts. That’s a lot of fonts with personality! The fonts below can be friendly, silly, spooky, simple, serious, or lovely.
Word Art
In Google Slides and Google Drawings, you can use Google Fonts in word art. Add word art by clicking the Insert menu and choosing Word art. Enter text in the box and press the Enter key. Use the Fonts menu to change the word art’s font. If the font you want is not in your Fonts menu, click More fonts to search for a font.
Word art is treated like a shape, so you can give it a solid or gradient fill. You can customize the border, shadow, reflection, rotation, and layers. Learn to style word art in the Name Art Shapegram. Check out the super fast preview of the Name Art Shapegram’s tutorial video.
Fonts for Body Text
Choose highly legible fonts for the body text in your documents and designs. Ample spacing, open interiors, height of lowercase letters, and distinguishable characters contribute to a font’s legibility. Display fonts generally don’t make for good body text because fancier fonts are not easy to read. When writing more than a sentence, stick with simple fonts that are legible, especially at a small size.
Handwriting Fonts
Here are some fonts that look handwritten. You can see various levels of neatness of the printing.
One More Bonus
Tom Mullaney has curated lists of Google fonts that match different eras. His Fonts for Any Era includes Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, 1600s/1700s, World War I, and 20th Century decades.
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