Baby Announcements

With so much to think about when it comes to choosing, designing and printing baby announcements, many miss the importance of choosing the right font. But the right font can unify the elements on a card, express the creator’s personality and make your joyous occasion sing.

If you are hoping to convey a fun, down to earth bubbly font, go with Comic Sans every time. It’s always in the birth announcement site drop down lists and its bubbly roundness is just perfect for the happy happy birth announcement. Other fun rounded fonts include Batang, Century Gothic, Corbel and Kristen ITC.

If old school elegance is more your thing then you can’t go wrong with Edwardian script. It’s the pinnacle of elegant digital fonts. But for many it may be a little too loopy and traditional. If you still want a classic look try Bickley script, Copperplate or Harrington.

A good in between font will create balance between classic but fun, fresh but timeless. For this style consider Garamond, Book Antiqua or Palatino Linotype. Put any of these three fonts into the bold setting and increase the font by one point to add the impression of embellishment.

The best way to finalize the font for your baby’s birth announcements is to write the text. Once you have the text written in your word processing software, just highlight the entire thing and try changing the fonts. Eventually you’ll stumble across the perfect font for your text. Then it’s just a matter of finding the right card to put it on.

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 23rd, 2010