Too many type styles, colors, etc., spoil the homogeneity of good typesetting or desktop publishing. The same is true in Web presentation, with the addition of too many links in formatted text. Instead, leverage your text in its weight, shape, and density. The CIRT Web page templates will control color, but you do have some choice in font or type style and what you include on your pages. In particular, readers have a very hard time reading all uppercase text, and lines much longer than 40 characters.
Most effective pages take advantage of specifying a particular font style.
Use families of type styles to create a consistent visual look and to provide visual unity, e.g., in titles, text blocks, buttons, menus, icon labels, etc. Make sure that all pages are easy to read from a variety of viewing distances and angles, e.g., imagine a viewer tilted back in a chair at various angles and distances from the screen. Reserve bold text for the most important information. Bold text is best used only to emphasize an important word or phrase, never for whole blocks of text. Style Sheets are used in the templates to maintain a uniform look for headers and text paragraphs, and have been locked in by Dreamweaver.