Palash Sarkar has watched more than one product launch with a beautiful landing page and an unreadable dashboard — because typography got treated as a branding decision made once, up front, instead of a system that has to hold up across dozens of real product screens. Here's how he actually approaches type in UI design.
Two Typefaces Is Almost Always Enough
The instinct to use three or four fonts for "personality" is one of the fastest ways to make an interface feel inconsistent. On projects like Lumin, Palash Sarkar typically settles on one typeface for headings and one for body text — sometimes just one typeface used at different weights. Fewer typefaces means faster page loads, easier maintenance, and a visual system that's simpler for a development team to implement correctly.
A Type Scale Does More Work Than a Font Choice
Picking a nice font matters less than most people assume; building a consistent type scale matters more. Palash Sarkar defines a fixed set of sizes and weights — usually 5 to 7 steps — and uses them everywhere, rather than letting every screen introduce a new one-off size "because it looked better here." That discipline is what makes a product feel like one coherent system instead of a collection of screens designed on different days.
Legibility Beats Personality on Small Screens
A typeface that looks distinctive at 48px can become genuinely hard to read at 13px on a phone screen with dozens of other typefaces competing for attention. Palash Sarkar always tests body copy at the smallest size it will realistically appear, on an actual device, not just a design file zoomed to 100%. If legibility suffers, the typeface changes — no exceptions, regardless of how good it looked in the mood board.
Key Takeaways
Good typography in UI design is a systems discipline, not a font-picking exercise. Palash Sarkar's approach — fewer typefaces, a defined scale, and legibility tested on real devices — is what keeps type working as hard as every other part of the interface.
Book a free consultation with Palash Sarkar at palashsarkar.com/book-a-call — he works with startups, agencies, and global brands from Dhaka, Bangladesh.