The right tool for the job

Here is an article I wrote for the Winter 2008 issue of Certworthy about selecting the right font for a writing project. The skinny version:

• For text in briefs, use a book-like font such as Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century, Century Schoolbook, or Palatino.
• For headings in briefs, use a bold sans-serif font such as Arial or Verdana.
• For e-mail and other documents intended for on-screen reading, use Georgia (for serifs) or Verdana (for sans serif).
• For drafts, use Courier. (That’s right. Courier.) After at least one pass editing in Courier, convert the document to it’s its final-form font. Then edit again.

Comments

[MCG]

Let's hear it for Courier! I agree with everything you say about wonderful, old-fashioned Courier. I also love Courier precisely because it is monospaced. Picking up extra spaces between letters is easy in Courier, difficult in the fancier fonts.

[Coleen Barger]

At last! Thanks, Ray.
An actual good and practical use for Courier.