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Peasie


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Which font do you use?

I've always been boring in the fonts I use. No point in using a font if you sent a file to someone and they don't have the font themselves. Nothing new there. So I've always used Arial in spreadsheets and Times New Roman in word processor documents.

Any new document I create in Excel 2010 or Word 2010 now defaults to Calibri. Up until now I've changed this to Arial but I was reading through the December issue of InVoice from the ICB and it looks as though Calibri is the font of choice.

When did this start?
And do you follow like sheep and also use Calibri.



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Hi Peasie,

I use Arial as a rule and never use Times New Roman.

Go with a font you like and is easy for your readers.  To me Calibri looks like a mixture of Arial and Times New Roman.

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Hi Peasie

I used to work for a large Japanese car manufacturer, who spent 1000000's on their branding. They had very strict rules about communication and all written material was in Arial (a world wide rule, along with American English, as the international language).

Apart from the consistency with their branding, apparently Arial is easier for the eyes to read than any of the other fonts.

That's just their opinion though and may have changed since I worked for them.

As for me I'll stick with Arial everytime

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Our Company's standard font is 'Trebuchet MS', which is a standard system font, but nicer than Arial.

Not a fan of Calibri and is no good for people on older computers or older versions of MS Office.

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Hi

ICB font is either Arial or Verdana, the new MS Office seems to default to Calibri so maybe the newsletter team copied that.

I do like Trebuchet as well.

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I use Aerial for letters, and don't like Times New Roman at all.

Who knew people had so many thoughts on fonts!!

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I mainly use Ariel or Comic Sans, however, an interesting fact is that Times New Roman uses substantially less ink than any other font. So if you want to be economical and save money go for Times New Roman.  If you want a sans serif Century Gothic uses less than Ariel but more than the serif font Times New Roman which I think is strange as one would think all the serifs would take up more ink.


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I was told that Calibri (a default font for MS Word 2007 and later) will revert to Ariel when displayed on earlier programs. Maybe someone can confirm that?

Also I heard, as Wikipedia says, that:
Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. The lack of serifs, large x-height, wide proportions, loose letter-spacing, large counters, and emphasized distinctions between similarly-shaped characters are chosen to increase legibility.

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Personally I use Trebuchet MS on all my stationery - looks good!



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