--- title: Pimp Your Typography date: 2021-07-06T05:00:00-04:00 author: Sean Smith canonical_url: "https://website101podcast.com/episodes/season-04/episode-12/pimp-your-typography/" section: Podcast --- <!\[CDATA\[YII-BLOCK-BODY-BEGIN\]\]>[Skip to main content](#main-content)![Oliver Schöndorfer](https://website101podcast.com/uploads/hosts/_200x200_crop_center-center_none/oliver.jpeg)Guest Oliver Schöndorfer UI designer empowering developers & designers to improve their websites, and products with pimped typography. [ ](https://twitter.com/glyphe) Season 04 Episode 12 – Jul 06, 2021 1:14:56 [Show Notes](#show-notes) ## Pimp Your Typography  0:00 0:00 1.0x 0.75x1.0x1.25x1.5x2x [](//dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/website101podcast.com/uploads/mp3/season-04/S04-E12-Pimp-Your-Typography-192.mp3) Time to pimp your website typography with Oliver Schöndorfer. Learn the fundementals of typography and why it matters to your website and message. ### Show Notes We start off by defining what Typography is. Then the various types of fonts including serif and sans-serif fonts and when to choose which to choose. - I (uppercase I), l (lowercase l), 1, a, g test - The difference between legibility and readability - Comic Sans and Helvetica fonts - Avatar and Papyrus - Heading, body fonts, and fonts that can be used everywhere - Oliver Judges Sean's website headings - Tips on how to choose fonts for a website - Web font marketplaces - 5 common web typography mistakes and how to avoid them - Leading and line height - line length - Oliver gives a review of the Website 101 Podcast website typography. ### Show Links - [Pimp My Type YouTube Channel](https://pimpmytype.com/) - [Oliver's Newsletter](https://pimpmytype.com/newsletter) - [Stop Using Open Sans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PPK7mE0zE&t=141s) - [Design Academy](https://www.designacademy.io/) - [Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/) - [Adobe Fonts](https://fonts.adobe.com/) - [Stop Using Open Sans](https://www.zeichenschatz.net/typography/stop-using-open-sans-why-your-font-choice-matters) - [Free Typographic Review](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1LJWf-TqW3u3IzfCoNo7r63zmdXeRlcC_zz-YOVilCW3J2A/viewform) - [All Caps Letter Spacing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jciowbs53eU) - [Typographic review of Website 101 Podcast](https://pimpmytype.com/website101podcast/) Have a question for Sean, Mike, and Amanda? [Send us an email](/contact). 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