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How To Pair Fonts For Wedding Invitations - Practice Templates Enclosed

CreativeLeahG — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:29:37 GMT

Hi all I'm sharing a couple of resources I have created for my course students so that those new to invitation design can play with different font pairings. I thought I'd share them here as well as I wish I'd had a resource like this back in the day! You are welcome to open up the 'customize tools' and 'copy' the pairings to your own products for practice or publication. The names of the fonts are as shown in the demo.

LeahG

https://www.zazzle.com/font_pairing_ideas_for_invitations_flyer-256993558668510152

https://www.zazzle.com/font_pairing_ideas_for_invitations_2_flyer-256498462002509110

Re: How To Pair Fonts For Wedding Invitations - Practice Templates Enclosed

KeegansCreation — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 10:04:43 GMT

Thanks for the examples. I'm pretty terrible at font pairing.

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CreativeLeahG — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:27:12 GMT

I've revised these you can see the new versions here:

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Martie_Artist — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:24:56 GMT

Thank you so much for the font charts. I am overwhelmed by the choices and really appreciate having this resource available. It is very generous of you to share this! 💗

Re: How To Pair Fonts For Wedding Invitations - Practice Templates Enclosed

Barbara — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:44:45 GMT

Leah, your pairings are superb, and it makes me wonder how, when you're putting together something new, you recognize what works and what doesn't. I don't design for formal occasions, but I nevertheless run into pairing problems on things like informal invitations and business cards. I test and test and test yet again until a pairing finally "feels" right. Is this how you do it, or have you studied typography?

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Pinkerrific — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:44:33 GMT

Thank you for sharing. It’s very kind of you.

Re: How To Pair Fonts For Wedding Invitations - Practice Templates Enclosed

CreativeLeahG — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:08:43 GMT

Yes , trial and error ... and a bit of research but the guides I saw online don't cover Zazzle's fonts. The main thing I've learned is that you can pair the same font, just change the spacing or do one in capitals, one in lower case and just see how that works.

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CreativeLeahG — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:55:33 GMT

ps, the 3rd-course module will cover font pairing in greater detail with more 'help sheets'.

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Barbara — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:34:48 GMT

Yes, I've looked online too, and you're right about the fonts they use as examples. It helps a bit in the sense that some the people point out those subtle differences in fonts' readability, but that's nowhere near enough, and I've spotted their use of letter spacing, which is certainly a good tool to keep on hand.

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Re: How To Pair Fonts For Wedding Invitations - Practice Templates Enclosed

MazzyDesigns — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:41:34 GMT

Thank you so much for creating this resource, it's really very helpful and generous of you.