It’s an obvious one to font nerds but when you’re pressed for time and/or struggling to find the perfect scenario, Helvetica will rarely let you down.įor those that haven’t come across this font before, there is an excellent film about typography, graphic design and visual culture, that looks at the proliferation of Helvetica. Hopefully you have never experienced a architectural presentation written in Comic Sans! but we can almost guarantee that you have seen (maybe even without knowing) a lot in Helvetica. This is particularly relevant when a project is publically presented and on show, or for competitions and critiques where the work presented is assessed without its author present.
In terms of architecture, fonts form a fundamental graphic communication device for presentations with nonverbal reading. Today however with digital typography now very dominant, the term font is more commonly associated with/to a typeface, where each font file is a different design.įor example the typeface “ Futura” may include the fonts “ Futura light”, “ Futura italic”, “ Futura bold” and “ Futura extended”, but the term “font” might be applied either to one of these on their own or to the Futura font as a whole.Īs well as the above variations (light, italic and bold), fonts can be categorized by their type of box (higher and lower case), by source, Sans – serif (without serif), Serif (with serif), Script (cursive) and Dingbat (ornamental), in addition to numerous other identity features of the same style. The typeface would consist of a range of these fonts that would all share the overall design (the typeface). The term font comes from metal typesetting and was a specific size, weight and style of a typeface. So here we offer a list of our favorite fonts (and the ones that we consider to be the best) that will hopefully help you to decide a little quicker and stop the endless scrolling through all the “free” font sites! Choosing the right font for your next or current architecture project can be a timely and stressful process, especially if you don’t already have a few go to options.Ī good or bad font can make or break a presentation and severally contribute to its level of engagement.
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