Hello, my name is Tenisha, and I have shiny font syndrome.

This doesn’t mean that I literally like shiny fonts (okay, fine, the rose gold ones are pretty), but it means I have a tendency to buy fonts I swear I’ll use one day that would be absolutely perfect for various projects. As a result, I have a lot of fonts installed on my computer, and I have yet to use the majority of them.

Does that stop me from browsing Creative Market and buying $2 fonts that I technically don’t need right now, but probably will in the future? Nope.

Different projects call for different looks, feels, and fonts. There’s a good chance that you’re not going to use the same fonts, colours, and elements you used in a fast fashion app geared to teens and twenty-year-olds, in a brochure about heart health for seniors. You may find yourself staring at fonts, trying to choose between them, which in turn, can be overwhelming. Cue the anxiety.

That’s why having a bunch of go-to fonts comes in handy.

Go-to fonts are the fonts you come back to time and time again. They’re dependable and reliable. As I mentioned on Instagram, they can be the ones you use on a regular basis, but they’re also the ones you circle back to because they’re clean, easy to read, versatile, and look good. Some fonts are absolutely beautiful, but aren’t suited for blocks of text. It’s important to have fonts that can work for a variety of projects and that you know you can count on in case the ones you’re staring at and just added to your cart don’t turn out the way you think they will.

Without further ado, here are my go-to fonts with the famous “quick brown dog” example to show you how they look in a sentence!

My Go-To Fonts - Details - Tenisha Rawlins

Of course, this just scratches the surface. There are a few I didn’t list that I use, like Proxima Nova, Open Sans, etc.

I’m always open to new font suggestions! Feel free to send them my way, because we can never have too many fonts, right?