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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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.
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.
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.
