I create a lot of tools for my job, mostly in Excel.
As great as my tools are, I am also very sensitive to their aesthetics, and sometimes I feel like the default/common fonts just don’t do them justice.
What are your favorite professional fonts? I don’t want funny or quirky or cute, I want professional and pleasing to the eye, but also unique (not commonly used or default).
Ideally, I want a separate font for headers vs body. If you have ideas for texts vs numbers those are welcome too.
The problem starts when my company does an upgrade to the Office apps and I lose my personalized settings. (Doesn’t happen all that often, but it’s a pain when it does.)
Long time ago, I used the Riverside font to add my name to footers in printouts, as it looked similar to my signature.
One day, a new windows/office suite was installed and it was gone.
Good news these days is that I do not make stuff for people who require aesthetics anymore. So, Times New Roman is my go-to, for me to read.
If I think the product will be printed and read, I’ll use TNR. If meant to be read on the screen I use Calibri. Most of our docs were prepared using Arial, but I always change it.
