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• #CALIBRI FONT WIKI PLUS#

Help­ing de­sign Berlin Sans was my first pro­fes­sional gig as a type de­signer, way back in 1991. 20 Per­petua ★ Rock­well Se­goe UI ★ Tw Cen MT ★ The B list: OK in lim­ited doses Agency FB Big Caslon Bodoni MT ITC Bodoni 72 Cal­ibri ★ Can­dara Cen­taur Con­stan­tia Cor­bel Fu­tura ★ Geneva Glouces­ter MT Ex­tra Cond. The A list: Gen­er­ally tol­er­a­ble Athe­las ★ Avenir ★ Bell MT ★ Book An­ti­qua ★ Cal­i­forn­ian FB ★ Cal­isto MT ★ Cen­tury School­book ★ Char­ter ★ Franklin Gothic ★ Gara­mond ★ Gill Sans ★ Gill Sans MT ★ Goudy Old Style ★ Hel­vetica ★ Hel­vetica Neue ★ Hoe­fler Text ★ Iowan Old Style ★ Op­tima ★ Palatino ★ Ser­avek ★ Sitka ★ Sim­i­larly, some fonts on the A list are not my fa­vorites, but they’re rea­son­ably useful.

They’re just in­apt for pro­fes­sional writ­ing. These rank­ings rep­re­sent a blend of prac­ti­cal and aes­thetic con­sid­er­a­tions, not ab­solute merit.

Sys­tem con­fig­u­ra­tions dif­fer, so not every font will be on your computer.

#CALIBRI FONT WIKI PLUS#

This chart in­cludes all the com­mon Win­dows and Mac sys­tem fonts, plus the Mi­crosoft Of­fice fonts. Oth­ers are us­able for spe­cial pur­poses (for in­stance, let­ter­head). F list, kapu.įonts plau­si­ble for body text are marked with ★. They’re also suit­able for shar­ing draft doc­u­ments. For screen dis­play, like pre­sen­ta­tions and web­sites, the A and B lists are fine. If you’re lim­ited to sys­tem fonts, con­sult this chart and choose wisely. In the pages fol­low­ing, I sug­gest pro­fes­sional al­ter­na­tives to the most com­mon sys­tem fonts. My of­fi­cial ad­vice re­mains the same: pro­fes­sional writ­ers should use pro­fes­sional fonts. In the long term, a diet of sys­tem fonts can be harm­ful to your health. WARN­ING This chart is of­fered only as a harm-re­duc­tion de­vice. For in­stance, please don’t adopt the slo­gan “A De­sign Firm Un­like Any Other” and then set it in Helvetica. Not every ty­pog­ra­phy project de­mands nov­elty. Be­cause these fonts are in­cluded with bil­lions of com­put­ers, they’re used all the time. See the difference?Īll sys­tem fonts are over­ex­posed. But Geor­gia was op­ti­mized for the screen Miller was op­ti­mized for print. In ba­sic ap­pear­ance, they’re sim­i­lar. Screen-op­ti­mized fonts look clunky on the printed page.Ĭom­pare the two fonts above. This comes at the cost of de­sign de­tails, which have been sanded off be­cause they don’t re­pro­duce well on screen (e.g., Geor­gia, Ver­dana, Cam­bria, and Cal­ibri). Many sys­tem fonts have been op­ti­mized for the screen, not print. In one square inch, an LCD screen that dis­plays 100 dots per inch has less than 3% of the res­o­lu­tion of a laser printer with 600 dots per inch, so ren­der­ing a font ac­cu­rately is much more dif­fi­cult. I won’t name names, but my least fa­vorite rhymes with Barial. The Win­dows and Mac OS li­braries have im­proved, but they’re still mine­fields of aw­ful fonts. In printed doc­u­ments they present three problems. Sys­tem fonts are the fonts al­ready in­stalled on your com­puter. System fonts Avoid if you can, choose wisely if you can’t