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.

  • Ashtear
    5·
    11 months ago

    I write mostly for web, so I don’t use serif a lot. I think it’s still fine for use with headings.

    If your reports are destined for print, it still belongs, imo.

    • DarthGraben@mander.xyzOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      What counts as print these days though? When I first started working, we’d get literal boxes shipped to us with 1,000+ page documents inside. Now it’s a cloud link that opens with a PDF reader. Does that still count as print? Genuinely curious, because I see conflicting advice depending on if its print or not.

      • Ashtear
        2·
        11 months ago

        Anything literally printed on paper. If you’re in PDFs and you know your audience is going to be reading it on a small screen, I’d say stay away from the serif fonts. Especially since you mentioned elsewhere that you’re concerned about document length; you can get away with smaller letter tracking size on sans.