Font advice, oh font of all knowledge.

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

Evening Foccers, despite the pun I'm serious when I ask "Which font?".

I've used comic sans since 2000 as a lot of stuff I type is for the bairns in work so set that to the default font to save pissing about, it scores highly on readability for those that have dyslexic traits.

However, looking to get my CV updated and would like something a wee bit classier than the windae licker font...

Ideally I'd like summat a wee but different to Ariel or Times, although they do appear to be favourites amongst those I've asked already.

So suggestions please, which fonts do you guys use for professional type documents?

Cheers.
Aegis.

[Dead Eye]

Tahoma, Open Sans, Verdana, Helvetica

All nice fonts in my opinion and are similar to that of Arial

There are a lot of free fonts available at www.dafont.com and at Google Web Fonts

[Buzz]

- Tahoma or Verdana, 11pt.


- Never use "serif" fonts in CVs like Times New Roman or Century, they're harder to read and can mess up auto-scanning software.


- Stick with one font and one font only.


- Max 2 sides of A4.

[imax]

Calibri seems to be the new Arial (IIRC, Arial was created by Monotype Imaging in 1982 and endorsed by Microsoft as they didn't want to pay the money to licence Helvetica).

Lucida Sans has a nice clean look to it as does Tahoma, but as a personal preference, I like Myriad Pro.

[Fazerider]

Another vote in favour of readability here... people looking at CVs often have to look at a huge number of them, any fancy font  makes them want to skip over the vital details and move on to the next CV.
Verdana, Lucida Grande... plain and simple ones are best.

On a lighter note: I did while away half an hour or so some months back on this site.

[Raymy]

I use garamond for everything, but its not up there in the professional looking stakes. It's never been no harm, but I haven't had to do a cv in a long time

[DryRob]

Anything gothic will set you apart from the crowd

[eddie]

Wingdings would be apt for you Andy cos no foccur canna understand ya south of hadrians wall.   

[Poodyboy]

hmmmm...

a few thoughts:  it is often the case nowadays that recruitment consultants etc want word copies of your CV (as in editable, rather than locked as a PDF etc - they tend to cut and paste it into their own corporate format before providing it on).  With that being the case, beware using fonts that are outside the very small standard collection.  if the font you have used is not on the recipients computer, it will substitute for one that is, and mess up the format of the document.  If you, like me, don't like the idea of providing someone with an editable document, then you might be in for some issues.

If you are talking about a locked document, then question one, do you have a mac or pc?  Loads of lovely fonts come standard on macs that I've never seen on PC's.  for a PF font, you could try looking at Futura (either light, or MD), Gill Sans, or Avenir.  whatever you use, make sure you print a test off, some are designed to look good on screen rather than print.

[ChristoT]

I personally have always used Times New Roman. It looks quite smart, and is compatible with most, if not all word processors. Then again, force of habit has come into it for me too.

[Dead Eye]

I have a huge distaste for serif fonts and it makes me cry inside when I see a website using Times New Roman