Like anyone who takes an interest in design, I love fonts. Coming across a great font makes me WANT to design something with it. I think the desire and impulse centers of a designer’s brain function similarly to the sexual pleasure centers of the brain - when you see someone who is hot, your brain tells you to have sex with that person. Well, mine doesn’t because I’m married - it only tells me that when my wife looks hot, which admittedly is often. But the point is, when I see an awesome font I want to immediately design something with it and until I do, I’m anxious.
The worst thing about fonts though, is finding them. Most font sites are clearly designed based on 10 fonts, then overtime expand to this unimaginable library of things that, when looked at on a font site, lose almost everything that makes them interesting. I recently found a site called Myfonts.com that broke the mold. I loved seeing the font in context of a design. I like how the font was presented in a visual library format rather than a giant page of the same text rendered over and over and over and over and over until your brain can no longer process any clear difference. By my 50th font I can’t even tell if the fucking thing is serif or not.
Well, obviously I can tell if it is a serif font or not, but not much more than that.
So I’ve spent the last couple days obsessing over fonts for a new brand, scouring Fontshop and fonts.com and veer and thinking, this is shit. This process is remarkably demotivating and is crushing my will to design anything.
So kudos to myfonts.com, I only wish you had a larger library of fonts.
Here are images of the visual style that myfonts.com uses to present fonts. (For the record I’m not an affiliate and don’t have permission to use these images, so I really hope they don’t take issue with this.)
