What i mean is, do you know of a list of niches as well as a 'typical' font to be used in design aspects of a site in that niche?
For example, a good font to use for a fetish themed site would be 'Disintergration'.
Anyone happen to have any links to such a list? :)
Regards,
Lee
For example, do you think the fonts below accurately reflect the niche?
http://www.gamediacorp.com/fonts.gif
Your thoughts on this?
Regards,
Lee
That's an interesting question. For sure there are some fonts that simply won't work in certain niches, but I think narrowing it by niche can be limiting. For example, using the image you supplied as a reference, the font used for twinks is a good choice (though honestly, the hearts kinda throw me off) but it's possible that any of the other fonts could work as well. Depending on the sub-category... i.e. amateur twinks vs. twink super slick megasite.
Obviously, the one you chose for Asians is indicitive of the niche, but mainly because you're describing an ethnicity or people from a certain region, but even then I would consider using a different type of font depending on the actual type of Asian site.
Lee, the beautiful thing about typography is the millions of potential combinations you can use to create the *exact* feeling you are looking for at the site - down to editing individual letters that you don't like in a font.
I have a cd with 5000 fonts on it which is pretty standard for any designer - there's some that obviously match a certain niche, but there are SOOOOO many fonts, its silly to limit yourself to just a few.
I guess though, if you aren't a designer, it might really help to have a list like this so you can always default to one you know is going to match ... but personally, i want my 1000's of fonts to choose from every time ;-)
tip: no more than 3 fonts on a page. a title font, a sub title font and a main text font. ;-)