Which Font Do You Use?

[Khandro]

Apparently, according to expert typographers, the font we choose gives out an impression of ourselves; 'Georgia gives the impression of intelligence'. My own choice of Arial 'implies insecurity', if you use New Times Roman you are 'traditional and afraid of change'. What is your choice?

[ludwig]

Arial.

[jim360]

I use wingdings, because I just want to annoy as many people as possible.

[AlwaysConfused]

Arial narrow or Times New Roman, but it can change according to the document and message I'm trying to relay. I really dislike Comic Sans, does that say anything about me?

[Mamyalynne]

Is there a list of these characteristics??

[Khandro]

AlwaysConfused According to my information 'the poor old team of Cern scientists (discoverers of the Higgs Boson particle) were ridiculed for using Comic sans font in the Power Point presentation they used to demonstrate it. One critic tweeted "every time you use Comic Sans on Power Point, God kills Schrodinger's cat. Please think of the cat.!'

[ludwig]

// "every time you use Comic Sans on Power Point, God kills Schrodinger's cat. Please think of the cat.!'//

Astrophysicist humour. Hilarious.

[tonyav]

I have killed that cat many many times then.

[jno]

I read that as "my own choice of Anal", whih indicates that AB's font could perhaps be clearer.

[Canary42]

The one in the local church ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

Bradley Hand.....

[DTCwordfan]

then our Canary must be a Baptist

[waterboatman]

Sego script or sego print.

[venator]

Depends on what I'm doing. No fixed choice, but in general

Accounts & Tax - Arial - nice & clear, good numerals
Letters - Times N R or Candara- but rarely write them these days!
Emails - Arial
Lists, odds & ends - Comic sans - good legibility

[cactusdriver]

Comic Sans

[Tilly2]

At my last school, it was school policy to use Comic Sans when producing any material given to the pupils. All posters and signs were Comic Sans too.
My own handwriting is italic, when I use my proper fountain pen.

[Khandro]

'Scala is historic, trustworthy and erudite', apparently.

[douglas9401]

Expert typographers use Georgia, apparently.

[bibblebub]

Fertigo Pro

[Hypognosis]

I got told off for referring to 'fonts', by someone who used to be in the printing business. They're properly called typefaces but everybody's favourite cultural imperialists, Micro$oft, possibly in an effort to save a few bytes of program code or space on the selector menu, changed it.

I would have expected the list to say that 'Arial' indicates someone who is either a technophobe, or just easy going and happy to accept default program settings, which might extend to other areas of their life. Disinclined to explore hidden features, just taking whatever comes their way.

I like Times New Roman because it is newspapery and relieves the boredom induced by using Arial for everything.

Tacoma is ok, when I can be bothered to spend a few extra seconds selecting it.

I must have wasted one or two hours, over the years, just looking at other typefaces and either thinking 'meh' or "who the heck actually uses one like this?"

Handwriting/script was helpful as reference material, with understanding a few unusual capital letter shapes on old census forms/BMD certificates but I wouldn't have a use for it in terms of drafting on computer and printing it off. It would be quicker to write the thing by hand.

[AB Editor]

Do some fonts get you better grades? https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2008/01/15/do-serif-fonts-get-you-better-grades/