Fonts and professionalism - Page 3

Arcade Fire · 19-09-2007, 09:18

What do people think about the new MS Office fonts? I think I may have fallen in love with Constantia a little, although Calibri is quite nice too.

All my emails are plain text too, so I guess people see them in Courier. I do lots of coding and typesetting, so I'm quite attached to my fixed-width fonts.

Mark · 19-09-2007, 09:51

Someone sent me an email using Calibri from Office 2007, and I have Office 2003. It looked vaguely OK until I tried to reply, then it turned ugly. Unless you know the recipient has the new fonts, don't use them.

Arcade Fire · 19-09-2007, 13:45

Doesn't it just switch them to something appropriate? Calibri --> Arial for example?

Mark · 19-09-2007, 14:36

Nope - it switches them to something inappropriate, or at least it did that to me.

Admiral Huddy · 19-09-2007, 16:41

I want a feet font

Justsomebloke · 19-09-2007, 16:43

Fonts are way of my radar but Thanks for making me paranoid about them now

Blackstar · 19-09-2007, 17:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feek

I quite like Trebuchet MS as some may remember

Another fan here, i do my essays and letters in it

After_8 · 20-09-2007, 15:08

Comic Sans is not appropriate for ANYTHING. It has several flaws as a typeface (which I'll not go into here for fear of looking FAR too geeky) which were mostly caused by it never having meant to be a typeface in the first place. It makes everything look amateurish.

I always tell my students that I won't mark any work they hand me in Comic Sans.

Feek · 20-09-2007, 15:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by After_8

It has several flaws as a typeface (which I'll not go into here for fear of looking FAR too geeky) which were mostly caused by it never having meant to be a typeface in the first place. It makes everything look amateurish.

I'm quite interested to know the reasons if you don't mind sharing - It's interesting.

SidewinderINC · 20-09-2007, 15:23

I'm quite interested to know too - I'm just a nerd

19-09-2007, 09:18	#21
Arcade Fire Nice weak cup of Earl Grey Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 40	What do people think about the new MS Office fonts? I think I may have fallen in love with Constantia a little, although Calibri is quite nice too. All my emails are plain text too, so I guess people see them in Courier. I do lots of coding and typesetting, so I'm quite attached to my fixed-width fonts. __________________ Eschew obfuscation.

19-09-2007, 13:45	#23
Arcade Fire Nice weak cup of Earl Grey Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 40	Doesn't it just switch them to something appropriate? Calibri --> Arial for example? __________________ Eschew obfuscation.

19-09-2007, 16:41	#25
Admiral Huddy HOMO-Sapien Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chelmsford Posts: 6,692	I want a feet font __________________ I just got lost in thought.. It was very unfamiliar territory. Techie Talk \| My gaming Blog \| PC spec \| The Admirals log

19-09-2007, 16:43	#26
Justsomebloke The Night Worker Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5,228	Fonts are way of my radar but Thanks for making me paranoid about them now __________________

20-09-2007, 15:08	#28
After_8 Nice weak cup of Earl Grey Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 47	Comic Sans is not appropriate for ANYTHING. It has several flaws as a typeface (which I'll not go into here for fear of looking FAR too geeky) which were mostly caused by it never having meant to be a typeface in the first place. It makes everything look amateurish. I always tell my students that I won't mark any work they hand me in Comic Sans. __________________ "I'm happy to grow up, but I won't pretend that fun things aren't still fun out of fear of looking silly."

19-09-2007, 09:51	#22
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Someone sent me an email using Calibri from Office 2007, and I have Office 2003. It looked vaguely OK until I tried to reply, then it turned ugly. Unless you know the recipient has the new fonts, don't use them.

19-09-2007, 14:36	#24
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Nope - it switches them to something inappropriate, or at least it did that to me.

20-09-2007, 15:23	#30
SidewinderINC Joey Tempest Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Gravesend. Posts: 2,751	I'm quite interested to know too - I'm just a nerd __________________ No Sig.