by: Your wedding, your way! I love the freedom inherently found behind the save the date concept. Designs can be zany, sweet, thematic, casual, formal, or a combination thereof~ all depending on your personality. Wedding invitations on the other hand, set the tone of your wedding and communicate the formality of the event, giving hints of what your guests can expect.
One of the easiest ways to reinvent an existing design, is by making font changes. The fonts your choose are important; they can subtly or dramatically, direct the design going from formal to casual, from formal to less formal, etc.
Essentially, there are three main types of typestyles:
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Serifs- more formal. The serif is the tail on the end of the first letter. Serif fonts do not look handwritten. Books are often printed in Serifs.
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Sans Serifs- less formal. (without the tail). These look more like block letters, similiar to what you learned in grade school.
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Scripts- can be either formal or informal. These fonts are considered to bring a lot of personality to a piece and are often used in the names of the couple. These fonts look more like caligraphy.
Choose the font style that best reflects your personality. If your intent is to be quirky and casual with your save the date, choose from among the Sans Serif fonts. If a formal tone is what you want, then try a script style and pair it with a Serif.
No rules~ just guidelines
Our wonderfully talented graphics designer Lindsay offers these helpful suggestions:
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Try to limit the number of fonts to 2~ for readability purposes.
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If using 2 fonts, make them contrasing i.e. The save the date image above features a Script font and a Sans Serif font.
- Be consistent with your font choices and carry them through. If you change a script font in your name and that same script font was found in your wedding date~ change it as well.
- Do not use 2 different script fonts.
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Keep in mind that using all caps makes the piece difficult to read.
Hint: The way your names look in print is hugely important! Lindsay advises that you go through the available fonts and pick the font that would best display the initials of your names. The entire alphabet is featured. Which font do you envision would look best in your name?
save the date image: Floral Ornament A-11736
