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Favourite Font?

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Do you have a favorite font ? For email I use a bland somewhat impersonal Arial, my favorite would be hard to choose between Times New Roman and Monotype Corsiva, for more artistic types I like Edwardian Script or Vivaldi and Mistral.
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Helvetica Neue, in ultralight ~
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i like fancy fonts
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Wing dings!

More seriously, Helvetica Nue, or Segoe on Windows.
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Courier has been very useful for me. Fixed space fonts.
JasmineUPC looks nice to me too.

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Tahoma or Trebuchet for me.
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Comic Sans.

Especially on resumes.

And in ALL CAPS.
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Calibri :)
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I second Calibri. For people with vision issues, its readability in print is great.
For public speaking notes, I like Verdana.
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Jo wrote:Helvetica Neue, in ultralight ~


Do those who disagree find it cluttered? That's the first thing that stood out to me is that the letters are all crammed together which makes me think of a cluttered desk or a teenager's bedroom.
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Well, it is a font meant for headers, not body, really.

I use good old dependable Times or Palatino for body text.
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Palatino looks nice.
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Palatino has been my standby for so many years. Good solid well-space easy-to-read serif font that works for anything.

Used to like downloading the occasional free fonts for headers, like the delightfully retro star-struck font diner font. Now it is used so much that I probably wouldn't use it anymore.
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Times New Roman for me.

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