"Let's be real. You could have the most revolutionary product in the world, but if it looks like a clown car of random fonts, nobody will take you seriously. They'll feel it in their gut. "This looks cheap. This feels untrustworthy." Good design is about building trust. And the foundation of clean, trustworthy design is typography. The good news? You don't need a design degree to get this right. You just need to stop making one critical mistake: using too many damn fonts."
"I've seen startups using five, six, even seven different fonts on a single page. It's a visual mess. It screams "amateur hour." This guide is the cure. This is the 3-Font Rule - a dead-simple system for picking and pairing fonts that will make your product look clean, professional, and intentional. The "Job, Not a Font" System Here's the secret: you're not picking three fonts. You're hiring for three jobs. Each font has a specific role to play."
Good design builds trust and typography serves as the foundation for perceived credibility. Excessive font variety creates chaotic, amateur impressions that undermine professionalism. The 3-Font Rule prescribes choosing three fonts and assigning each a specific job: a workhorse body font for readable content, a display or headline font for hierarchy and personality, and an accent or UI font for calls-to-action and labels. Role-based font selection simplifies pairing, enforces consistency across interfaces, reduces visual noise, and increases user confidence. Applying disciplined font choices requires no formal design degree and yields immediate visual improvement.
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