 What's up wonderful website creators are you might be wondering what kind of font should you add to your website? What are the best fonts to use? How should I be styling up my fonts on my website and if you're anything like me when I was new you might be experimenting trying all kinds of different things trying to get super creative and something just doesn't feel or look right and it's hard to put your finger on it. At least that was my experience when I first started off and it's okay. I mean you should have seen my first websites man yeah they were um well this video should help out. I got three basic rules to use they're very simple rules they're very simple to follow and I guarantee you if you follow these three rules your website is going to look cleaner it is going to look more professional and even if you are branded to web design or you're a do-it-yourselfer and you're just creating a website for your own business. Rule number one, stick to just one to two fonts on a website never use more than two fonts and that's a rule of thumb you should never ever use more than two fonts on a website and if you're brand new I highly recommend and suggest just stick into one font before moving on to two and trying font pairings. Stick with one it makes it simple and clean and the more simple you make it the more cleaner your website is going to look. The reason why we don't want to use more than two fonts is when you start to use several different fonts it's it's messy it's random it's inconsistent and then also every single time somebody goes to your website the fonts have to load and if you have many fonts on there all the fonts have to load whenever someone goes to the website and that's going to slow your website down. Alright rule number two, do not experiment with creative fonts and these are fonts like cursive and rounded fonts and handwritten fonts you know they're really nice they look really cool and this is something I did when I was new because I see one in the presentation I downloaded because it looked it looked just super dope but then I put it on my website and I just couldn't get it to look right and now after years of studying typography and studying web design I found out that even for an experienced web designer these fonts are hard to use. What you want to do is you want to stick with the clean easy-to-read fonts if you're going to use sans serif use something like Helvetica prompt or railway and if you want to have a classier type of font use a serif font and make sure it's easy to read I suggest using something like play fair display basket fill or una and all these fonts that I just named they're all really easy to read they're clean you can use them as a title you can use them as your text your regular body text and they're all on google fonts which makes them easy to use and free also and rule number three create a style guide one of the biggest reasons a website usually looks messy and unprofessional is because of the inconsistent usage of fonts a style guide will make sure all your fonts and all your titles and everything stays consistent throughout the site no randomness everything follows a guide take for instance this guide right here that I created I kept it really simple and I also added a link to the description so anyone could go ahead and go to this it's on figma which is a free design tool duplicate it and use it as a template you'll see that I have a style for the large extra large titles a style for your large medium and small titles a style for your regular paragraph body text and even the button text and this is it if you use a guy like this and put it across your whole site your website is going to look really clean because it's going to look consistent and it's going to look professional as well and if you're using elements where here's something really cool with element or they have something new in element or which is a style guide for typography and fonts so you could actually have something like this built into element or which makes keeping your fonts clean and consistent throughout your site super easy I mean it's absolutely amazing and I'll be having a tutorial coming up soon on using style guides in element or so make sure to subscribe and you know all that good YouTube subscribe like comment it's really appreciated I'm very grateful for everyone watching this and I'll be back soon with more web design and element or related content all right thank you