{"id":4432,"date":"2009-03-29T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/fishing-for-the-right-font\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T01:22:50","slug":"fishing-for-the-right-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/fishing-for-the-right-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for the Right Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; I&#8217;m not a designer, I&#8217;m not even a developer.  But I do know what looks good, and more importantly what conveys the right message on a website.  There are many elements that help convey an effective message and help your site to convert.  Colour scheme, effective images, buttons or &#8220;calls to action&#8221; in the right places.  Sometimes, a basic font scheme is overlooked when designing web sites and landing pages.  <\/p>\n<p>I was creating a new blog the other day for discussing and promoting the benefits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analyticscookies.com\">web analytics<\/a>.  In my infinite creative wisdom I called the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analyticscookies.com\">Analytics Cookies<\/a>.  Those involved in web analytics will get the &#8220;declicious&#8221; (if I may) pun.  I digress&#8230;  In my attempt to create a crude logo (I was looking for a &#8220;cookie monster font&#8221;) I came across some great tools which I found very handy and kinda cool. <\/p>\n<p>Make your own handwriting font &#8211; Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.high-logic.com\/scanahand.html\">ScanaHand<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontifier.com\/\">Fontifier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wonder what font was used?  Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identifont.com\/\">Identifont<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scan and upload a document to see what Font was used &#8211; Try <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/WhatTheFont\/\">WhatTheFont<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; I&#8217;m not a designer, I&#8217;m not even a developer. But I do know what looks good, and more importantly what conveys the right message on a website.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}