![]() ![]() I don’t care that Calibri is overexposed.But often, that means that subtle design details have been sanded off, and the typeface looks clunky on the printed page (e.g. The Mac and Windows system fonts have been meticulously engineered to look good on screen (for instance, website text). They’re optimized for screen display, not printing.I don’t want to name names, but my least favorite rhymes with Barial. But certain typefaces included with Windows are among the most god-awful on the planet. You don’t want to be lumped in with those people. The fact that they’re included with the operating system for free means that people who are lazy and cheap tend to use them. Operating system typefaces have three problems: Subject to a few exceptions, you should also avoid Times New Roman. On the Mac, that includes Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Palatino, Skia, and Verdana. On Windows, that includes Arial, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Comic Sans, Constantia, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, any flavor of Lucida, Palatino, Trebuchet, and Verdana. (I’ve corresponded briefly with Matthew.) On this page of the site, I read the following:Īvoid using the core operating system fonts in printed documents. ![]() I had occasion to revisit Typography for Lawyers, a handsome and informative site maintained by Matthew Butterick, a solo litigator based in Los Angeles. (Click here for a pdf sample of Calibri.) For more on this change, see chapter 15 of MSCD and this blog post (and its 31 comments).įlash forward to now, or rather yesterday. ![]() Calibri has been designated the default typeface for body text in Office 2007, and the Word 2007 default font for body text is 11-point Calibri. In December 2007 I underwent a Damascene conversion and switched typefaces-for purposes of contracts and pretty much everything else-to Calibri, one of a new suite of Microsoft typefaces. ![]()
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