How to select a font

Questions for selecting a font: Is it for header, body text, or an accent font? Is it for desktop, mobile, or print? The font’s designer, Jan Fromm, writes that “rounded shapes and soft curves” leave the reader with an “overall impression of warmth and smoothness.” First choice (no time to think):

In order to make your design interesting, you need to contrast a few things. You could contrast:

Typeface
Font size
Color
Capital case For example: cnn.com only uses one typeface: CNN, using Helvetica and sans-serif as fallbacks fonts. The only word with a different typeface is CNN itself. foxnews.com goes even further and uses the free and common Roboto for everything. A different approach can be seen in ft.com, it uses two fonts. One with serif(Financer web) for headers and the other sans-serif for text body, this to give a feeling of a newspaper while keeping the readability at the same time.