Fonts are important. Whether it’s your design or your blog, or an Instagram story, your font can be the difference between your content getting read or getting ignored. I’ve experience of working for a lot of clients using a lot of fonts. And although most of them are decent, there are those which look like they’ve been sent directly from hell. No, seriously, they’re downright an abomination to the entire process of content creation. Here’s your list of fonts from hell that you should absolutely avoid.
Times New Roman
Well if you’ve written enough research papers, even if just for your university, you’d understand wholeheartedly the contempt for Times New Roman. A font that reminds you of anxious all-nighters spent making reports, and the panic attack of handing the report in right before a viva, why would you ever use the font in any other setting in your life?
Trajan Pro
Not a usual choice, but it can be relevant in some situations. The font is based upon the Roman emperor of the same name. Although it’s not inappropriate or immature, it still isn’t a good choice for official documents or certain design themes. Also known as the font for Movie Posters
Calibri
The font that has done some damage over many parts of the world, including ours, Calibri is a font you will spot almost everywhere. It’s boring!
Comic Sans
Comic Sans is a font associated with immaturity and childishness. It’s not something you want to even get close to no-matter your niche.
Courier
Yet another overused font, Courier is so easy to avoid that it’s shocking to learn it’s a font that was designed to be easily readable. Although it’s common in many marketing projects, I would never personally recommend using it.
Papyrus
A font used for marketing and several other fronts very popularly, it’s not something I’d call appropriate for certain high-standard projects. But it’s still not perceived as threatening to one’s professionality.
Brush Script
A font with an artistic and feminist look, Brush Script it old and overused and it needs to retire for no other reason than that!
Impact
Impact was made for the purpose of doing as the name suggests, to create a memorable impact on the user’s eyes. But it’s overused, unreadable in most cases, and downright boring to be used for high-end projects.
Curlz
One of the most immature fonts I’ve ever witnessed. Curlz is only appropriate if you’re an 8-year-old sending an invitation for your tea party, and even then I’d be skeptical of your use of the font.
Lobster
Every designer would admit to having used this font willingly, and excessively, at one point or another when their career began (guilty!). But seriously that needs to stop. No one wants to see this font on any design template anymore.
Bleeding Cowboys
This font indicates a gothic outlook, Bleeding Cowboy is one of those unfortunate creations that even its own founder is tired of. And well, we can’t really blame him for it. It’s been excessively overused since its creation in 2007, yet it’s most prominent description is ‘unreadable album art’.
Arial
I feel like a hypocrite using this very font while writing about how it’s Helvetica’s weird, ugly cousin. Writing in docs is something, but Ariel as a design and website font? Never!
So this was my pick of fonts that are absolutely abhorrent to be used when you want to make high-quality designs. Some other fonts I can think of are Bonzai, Neuland-Inline, Souvenir, etc. If you want to grab attention on your content or maintain the audience’s interest in your creatives, you need to be aware of the fonts that can serve as aesthetic and likeable and which ones make the audience run away from your page. As a professional, you want to be taken seriously. And you can not do that if your fonts are overused, immature or unreadable.
