What font do you use? (riveting I know)

[MrsJackRackham]

I use Georgia size 10 at the moment for work. I fancy a change. What do you use?

A publisher I sent work to recently asks for it (it's literally the first thing the submission guide says)

They're probably just trying to avoid all the submissions in Comic sans :o

I'd prefer that, honestly 😂😂😂

I was on an accessibility course at work a while back and we were told to avoid TNR and use either Calibri or Ariel. So I only use Calibri now. I also run everything through the accesibility checker thing in Word before publishing.

I like Garamond and Baskerville best for personal use. I like Verdana for certain things too. It has an authoritative air about it, I think.

Absolutely loathe Comic Sans and I'm not keen on TNR or Arial either.

There's no evidence that Arial or Calibri are inherently more accessible in a general sense. We read best what we read most, so serif fonts are more accessible to many older people who read mostly paper.

On a screen, TNR has a high x-height (condensed in width) so can be hard to decipher at small sizes or on older low resolution monitors, where the anti-aliasing performed poorly and broke up the integrity of the shapes, especially on the serifs.

Sans-serif fonts like Verdana were developed specifically to deal better with small fonts on 800x600 monitors. In this use case, sans-serif fonts with low x heights are definitely easier to read and therefore more accessible.

But in the case of an iPhone, no. As all mobile text should be at least 16px on the body and the resolution is likely to be upwards of 1920 (pixels on the screen), then there's no reason to say that those fonts are inherently more accessible, except that we are now trained to think they are because... we read best what we read most.

Better screens and resolution definitely makes reading difficult fonts slightly easier but Serif fonts are always more difficult to read in any straight comparison.

there's no reason to say that those fonts are inherently more accessible, except that we are now trained to think they are because... we read best what we read most.
This is just wrong. Whilst many people may well develop some preferences and can read many fonts easily, sans-serif fonts ARE more accessible to many people.

I am visually impaired, I need letters to be clear. Any extra bits (serif) that complicate that image makes it much harder for me to read. Letters become much easier to confuse with each other.
Many people with dyslexia or learning difficulties have similar experiences.

That isn't exactly what I said but deffo no interest in a fight club over fonts. Peace to all!

After this thread I had an experiment today and had the horrible realisation that several of the fonts mentioned above are not available on Word 365

Is there a magic place to download more fonts from?

Calibri body.
Used to use comic sans but bored of that now.