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The main motive of any website is to get the message across to its audience. There are times when the website gets overloaded with information, design in such a way that the visitors tend to get confused about the motive of the website.

There are number of factors that affect usability i.e design, layout, content etc. It will take a lot more than one blog to discuss all. However this blog will mainly focus on “How fonts affect usability”

1. Content layout: The content should always be divided into heading and the main content. Make sure you keep it consistent throughout
your website. The heading font should always be bigger than the main content font and preferably bold. This makes your page more readable.

2. Content color: You can have similar color schemes for related topics. This sometimes is important if you have got a lot of content on your website in that case color can be a link between contents.

3. Fonts readability: Use the right size of fonts, don’t make the content font too tiny or too large. Secondly it should be re-sizable using the browser properties.

4. Font family: When design your website use a family of fonts rather than a single font. You can provide options so that if the 1st one is not available in the browser it will use the 2nd one. For example

font-family: “Verdana”, “Arial”, “Times new roman”

In the above example the preferred font will be Verdana, if Verdana is not installed than it will look for Arial and so on.

5. Use numerals to denote numbers: Numerals tend to grab attention of the users as they denote facts.

These are some of the tips that can help make your website a lot more readable. If you have got some more tips please comment on this blog.