Rational to describe my choice of fonts.
I went with some pretty straight forward sans-serif fonts to convey a modern look and keep in with the punchy bright coloured feel while purposefully contrasting with the deliberately negative tagline/logo the whole thing is supposed to seem very clean cut official yet creative.
Logo - (Mayberry)
For the logo font I had to resort to using an image to allow a nonestandard font to be useable on computers without it's installation. To keep it crystal clear it's a decent size, anti-aliased and saved as a high-quality PNG while through some kind of witchcraft keeping a filesize of just a few kilobytes. Instead of redoing the image multiple times per section of website instead I just use different css placement options to allow the same image to be reused throughout, further reducing loadtimes.
Content - (Lucida Grande)
The main content font had to be something that is in common usage across different platforms (PC/Mac etc) so that each article can remain small to keep the website down. On the plus side apparently HTML5/CSS3 allows us to use some nifty server side font guff, but that's way outside of the scope of this first project, somewhere down the road and off into the english channel.
As with the classic design rule which was once again mentioned today, I do not currently intend on using many/any more fonts as 2-3 is that user sweet spot we all like to see.
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