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Which font?

iainment
iainment Posts: 8,040
edited November 2011 in Not Sports Related

I work for a small community development project and we want to change our font from Arial to  ?

 

Which font would be best for being easily readable and professional looking?

 

 I tend towards Trebuchet, any other ideas would be appropriate.

 

Thanks

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,255
    Might be worth checking out the bobby website for guides on accessibility.  Not sure how up-to-date this is.

    http://www.cast.org/learningtools/Bobby/index.html
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Nestles Condensed.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,358
    I read an article recently about how a font reveals character, image etc. - a bit like handwriting used to. As the person with the worst handwriting in the world, I tend to use Calibri which is nice and neat in my opinion. However, based on the article I read, it depends whether you want to appear modern, solid, trendy etc. and as someone who knows nothing about community development projects I can't comment. Try googling, it will have been discussed on marketing forums.
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,402
    calibri.

    This is the sort of trainspotting esque thread i can get excited about.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    edited November 2011
    most non football realated post on a football realated forum thread of the week...

    image

     
    ;-)

    we use Calbri, nice and clean font.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    we confirm all of out trades in "courier new"
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    most non football realated post on a football realated forum thread of the week...


    image



     

    ;-)



    we use Calbri, nice and clean font.

    Why thank you kindly young sir.

     

    Of course this is why I posted in the non sport bit of CL.

     

    SMILEY THING WINKING BACK AT YOU, boldly.

  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952

    I too use Calibri, point size 11.

     

     

  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,966
    If you want a graphic designer salivating, Helvetica is the one to go for.

    It's like porn to some of them.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,027

    I too use Calibri, point size 11.

    +1.  The best looking font of the lot.  Pt sz 10 is too small, 12 is too big, 11 is spot on.

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  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    If you want a graphic designer salivating, Helvetica is the one to go for.

    It's like porn to some of them.
    What I was going to say. I use it for any and all writing I have to do.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    Anything that isn't wingdings or comic sans mf.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Calibri is the way forward, the Chris Solly of the type font world, not the biggest or the showiest, but neat and compact and does the job.
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    Calibri is the new Windows standard for san-serif, and it is very nice. I also like Century Gothic, little bit rounder.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Calibri 11 here too, although also used to dabble with Verdana 11 in the CAFC days.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455

    How are you going to use it (ie what software) and how are you intended it to be read (ie letters, internet, email).

    A lot of fonts work well in different medium and in different colours / on different backgrounds.

    We use Trebuchet for the website and word (sometimes Calibri) and antiqua for promotional materials / leaflets etc.

  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,828
    Times New Roman for me
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,579
    Times New Roman 12 for me
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,814
    Depends what it's for, Calibri is becoming the new Arial for me, Gills San is a dream on big print/online. Verdana or Helvetica for small print work.
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    I love this one:

    http://p22.com/products/london.html

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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Verdana 12.
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730

    `I know a number of schools have a policy of using comic sans, on the basis that it is believed to be the easiest to read for children with reading difficulties.

  • Kiely#1
    Kiely#1 Posts: 258

    Times New Roman 11, don't listen to the rest!

  • Danepak
    Danepak Posts: 1,630
    Avantgarde - http://www.identifont.com/samples/adobe/AvantGardeGothicMedium.gif

  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Calibri is my personal fave however you need to bear in mind you are limited to about 7 fonts if you are including your website in the equation.  Too specialist a font won't work on all PC's and then it starts to look really chuddy

    Please also note that Comic Sans is a hangable offence and is cause for disciplinary proceedings here


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