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What are your favorite fonts for technical reports? (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by DarthGraben@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about typography/fonts.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

DIN was made for German highway signs. It's pretty good.

Do not use Georgia, Times New Roman, or Verdana. Those are screen fonts.

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't TNR a print font? It looks rather bad on a screen actually. I certainly wouldn't (and never have) use it for a technical report.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

It’s a font designed for columns of text about two inches wide. Not a good font for wide lines of text.