Reply To: Bad font decisions, yes I’m talking to you Papyrus users!

I’m looking at it more from a professional practice issue. Not everybody has all the fonts loaded on their machine, and many do not print well. Some are also very illegible when running prints or copies of prints (remeber, original documents are hardly ever sent into the field, and are more likely bad copies). I don’t know how many times I had to clear up dimensions for the last firm I worked with whos lettering font was designed to work with pen plotters and they never updated their corporate standards. They liked the look of the font, but by gen 3 of the copies (which is what the subs get), much of the dimensioning was illegible. Because it wa all caps as well, it made reading notes and specs a real chore.

Even with transmitting PDF, if you don’t include the font in the package, it might not appear correctly on the other end. Same with e-mails. Funky fonts and large type don’t always look right, and fancy fonts really are kind of unprofessional for corporate communications. Forget about using colors. You may be trying to be different or set yourself apart, but all you are really doing is impeding professional communications and making yourself look gimmiky.