aetherworld.org

For a project I’m currently working on, I needed to pick a good font. Now the target audience of this project is very different from the audience of the projects I was involved with so far: It’s going to a be a website for children.

Children are just in the process of learning to read and how written words relate to sounds and spoken words. The efforts of young readers need to be supported by making sure the texts are not only easy to understand but also are set in inviting, easy-to-read typefaces.

Ilene Strizver’s article on Typography for Children on fonts.com helped me a great deal in picking the right font. And in case you’re interested, I went with Gill Sans Schoolbook (the Open Type version is called Gill Sans Infant).