| Part of having a cohesive blog design is to choose | | | | offered with most blog templates as a standard font. |
| one or two fonts and two to four colors and stick | | | | The shorter, squatter and larger the font, the less |
| with them on your site. The best looking sites are | | | | professional your blog will look. |
| minimalist in design. A site that has too many | | | | Additionally it is best to stick with fonts that most |
| different types of fonts and colors on it just looks | | | | people would have on their computers. Keep in mind |
| unprofessional. | | | | that if a computer cannot read a font it will put your |
| It is also helps to choose colors that suit your | | | | site on a default font so it can be read. This can |
| subject areas. Cooler colors such as blues and grays | | | | knock your layout out of alignment and give it an |
| tend to suit blogs that are of a technical, political or | | | | unattractive appearance on other people's computers. |
| authoritative nature. Warmer colors seem to suit | | | | Fonts that any computer can read include Arial, |
| more casual subjects. For instance a pink and yellow | | | | Verdana, Times Roman, Times New Roman, Georgia, |
| themed site is more suited to a blog about baby | | | | Palatino and Tahoma. Keep your layout as simple as |
| showers than it is to a rant about human rights | | | | possible to avoid distortion of it on other people's |
| abuses in Africa. | | | | computers as well. |
| In general the smaller and more classic your font is, | | | | One warning is to stay away from the black hat SEO |
| the more it implies authority and respect. An example | | | | technique of making your keywords the same color |
| is Times New Roman or Bookman. Arial, Verdana and | | | | as a web page. The search engine spiders are on to |
| Helvetica are middle of the road fonts that are | | | | this technique and will penalize your site for it. |