Bored with TNR, Arial, Garamond, and Verdana - Any Ideas?

[Edgar D' Souza]

On 10/10/06, Barbara Vega <BarbaraV at libertyims.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> Any suggestions for alternates to Arial and Verdana, and TNR and
> Garamond for headings? This is for Electronic copy - Online help, not
> for printed copy. I am so bored with these (in the subject of this
> email). I want to do something different but I want to stay reasonably
> conservative too. Can you make some suggestions of some that look nice?
> Serif or Sans Serif are fine, because whichever I go with for the
> headings I will make the body copy the other
>

I like Sylfaen (serif) for body text - nice, clean look - and Lucida Sans
for headings. Palatino Linotype is good for character formats on top of body
text - or for use in image captions. Sylfaen, however, does not look too
good in bold, and (IMHO) sucks when italicized. That's why any emphasized
text is usually at least a different color, and mostly a different font,
too.

No doubt almost each writer on this list has their own favorite fonts, likes
and dislikes acquired from years of experience... this promises to be an
interesting thread!  :-)

Cheers,
Ed.