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You now have the opportunity to acquire the single largest collection of Google font combinations yet produced anywhere in the world! It’s so huge, it’s preposterous, which is why it’s aptly named “The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations” at nearly 8000 pages!
Why is there a need for a such preposterously huge book of Google font combinations like The Preposterously Huge Book of Font Combinations? Why not just rely on the Google Fonts search and preview tool, as well as Google and other search engines to find inspiring font pairing ideas? Here are some great reasons for the PHBOGFC to exist and why you should consider using it, namely:
- You don’t want to spend time searching through hundreds dud Google fonts
- You don’t want to download dozens and dozens of fonts
- You don’t want to install dozens and dozens of fonts
- You don’t want to activate dozens and dozens of fonts
- You don’t want to apply dozens and dozens of fonts to appropriately complete text samples
- You don’t want to lose time playing with dozens and dozens of fonts
- You don’t want to lose creative energy wandering through dozens and dozens of fonts
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Let’s jump right into Frequently Asked Questions and see what the PHBOGFC is all about:
Who is this book for?
It is for professional designers, students, and hobbyists alike. Students will learn the names and visual characteristics of some of the most popular Google typefaces in use right now. Professionals will find inspiration and save valuable time in the process. In most cases, a designer has to sort through a typeface collection using a type manager application (like Suitcase Fusion), turning individual fonts on and off for use in their design program. After locating and activating a font in the type manager, they then have to flip back to their design application, or create a CSS rule in their web app, and apply the font to a selection of text. There might be something therapeutic in this slow process for some people, but it does take a lot of time. The PHBOGFC is a little aid to speed that process up.Is this meant to be a visual guide or set of rules?
The PHBOGFC is not meant to provide a formulaic set of type ideas. It is primarily meant to be a learning tool and a time-saving and inspirational resource for designers. While many combos may work right out of this book, many others serve as examples of contrast. Some examples have more harmony than others, and some have more discord than others, as presented. It is important to note that no attempt was made to fine tune each type sample to best match another type sample. This was done so that all the type samples would remain consistent from page to page to help the designer become familiar with the same text, font size, and relative leading and kerning, etc. from page to page. This consistency helps form a mental picture of not only the samples in the book and how they relate, but perhaps how another font on their computer might work with an example they are familiar with. Again, while some combinations of fonts with their respective tracking and leading as shown in each sample might work as-is, they may also be greatly improved by carefully optimizing their individual attributes for even better results. We leave the fine-tuning of those attributes up to you!What this book is NOT
It is not intended as a showcase of typography. It is a tool. A workbook. A sketchpad. Your favorite layout application document captured 7900+ times in the process of trying different typefaces on for size. It is a whiteboard, chalkboard, napkin, conversation, a walk in the wild Typographic Forest. It is like a color chip ink sample book for selected classic typefaces. It is not a manifesto of formulaic results. It is conversation amongst free, available typefaces from Google. You will find some great ideas right off, and come across other ideas not so useful at the moment, and you will come up with your own great ideas. If this conversation sounds interesting to you, this is a resource you’ll enjoy.Should designers buy new typefaces instead of just using free Google fonts?
Yes. The typefaces included in this book are very popular for a reason: they meet client or personal requirements at no cost. But designers must expand into current type design vocabulary in order to be the best designer possible. Please support the work of living typographers. Do yourself and them a favor and purchase new, relevant work. Expand your typographic repertoire and make pairs out of old and new typefaces when licensing and budget concerns allow for it!Why not just download and install the fonts to see what they look like?
Does your example text have examples of regular, bold, italic, bold italic, numbers, all caps, small caps, special characters, reverse fonts, different sizes. If it does, that’s great! But now after installing your font of choice you may also have to now select all those various texts and apply the right font, like bold, italic, and bold italic. By the time you did that, you could have glanced through and studied several dozen options closely.How do I use this enormous book?
It’s so easy! Just go to the index and click on the font you are interested in. From there you can scroll around forwards and back. And if you want to choose another typeface, just go back to the index and click again. This is so much easier and more fulfilling (because the examples are so big) than trying to select and change fonts from a dropdown menu only to see lackluster results.Why not just google for font combinations?
You’ve likely tried that, but are now thinking about buying this book as a result. If you haven’t tried it, you’ll notice that many articles are more or less “click bait”, filled with examples of combinations that are too small to really see what is going on, and don’t have enough text for you to make a decision. You might see something interesting, and then realize you have to go somewhere else to try the combination, or just go ahead and download the fonts, install them, open your app, set your text with the two new fonts…you get the picture.Why is such a huge book focused on just google fonts?
Google fonts have become wildly popular, and googling for combinations reveals a lot of articles and tools where some people in good faith are trying to help, but some are not. So much information is lacking in the examples, that it tends to leave you no better off than just taking arbitrary guesses at pairing them yourself. We take all the guesswork out and have focused on a subset of the most useful and broadly popular Google fonts, combined them with each other, made it all super-easy to navigate, and it did it in one totally humongous PDF. You can’t get a better set of font examples so quickly any other way.