Loads of people stick to Times New Roman for printed documents and Arial for PowerPoint. These are not intrinsically bad fonts but they are a bit boring.
Try using different fonts to make your documents and presentations stand out from the rest.
The one problem you may face is font substitution if you load your presentation onto a computer which does not have the font you have used. For example, if you use Gill Sans (a fantastic font, and one which was the inspiration behind the London Underground font) for your presentation and this font is missing from the laptop at the meeting where you are presenting your talk, your font will not show because the PowerPoint file only possesses the code instructing the laptop to use Gill Sans. If that font is not on the laptop then another font will have to be used instead (substituted). You may be lucky and Arial might be used, but you may find some horrible serif font is used instead. Your formatting will go haywire and the whole thing will look awful.
PowerPoint for Windows allows you to embed the font in the actual PowerPoint file (though this seldom works when I try it). The Mac version does not have this option.
How to avoid font faux pas?
Stick to fonts common on PCs and Macs, such asTahoma, or Arial, or Verdana.
Stick to fonts common on PCs and Macs, such asTahoma, or Arial, or Verdana.
Comic fonts
Avoid at all costs. The one in the figure above is Apple Casual which is marginally better than Comic Sans. Even if you want to portray yourself as someone young and zany please resist using casual fonts. They look immature and will spoil even the best presentation.
Avoid at all costs. The one in the figure above is Apple Casual which is marginally better than Comic Sans. Even if you want to portray yourself as someone young and zany please resist using casual fonts. They look immature and will spoil even the best presentation.
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Morton // Feb 12, 2010 at 7:55 pm
The London Underground font Johnston is not based on Gill Sans, it is the other way round.