I can hear the graphic designers screaming from here

[tsaiko]

Dear potential employer,

It is never, ever, ever appropriate to use the typeface Papyrus on your business website. It is ridiculous. No one will take you seriously. You might as well use Comic Sans and lose all credibility.

No love,
Tsaiko

Comments

[dameange]

tsaiko, out of curiosity, what is an acceptable font when it comes to business? I'm creating a webpage for my resume and I would greatly appreciate any advice. thanks!

[tsaiko]

For websites you generally want to use a san serif font like Arial or Helvetica because they render better on low resolution screens. The trick is to pick a non-specialty, non-fancy font. Something simple. It should be professional looking because that is what you want to project. That you are a professional.

[animeartistjo]

Hello!

Maybe you'll find this useful formatting wise. If you look at The Top Ten Posts off to the right, there are more useful links too.

Good luck.

[alice_montrose]

Awww, but Papyrus is such a lovely font! What do you have against it?

Joking aside, Times New Roman and sometimes Arial usually own my soul. The latter only in Notepad/Word Pad mode, usually.

[tsaiko]

Yeah, I default to Times New Roman or Arial as well. I prefer Times New Roman if given a choice, but I really don't care as long as it's not one of the fancy, novelty fonts.

[animeartistjo]

ILU so, so much.

You know I seriously saw a journal with comic sans as the font of choice the other day? T_T

[tsaiko]

LOL. That does not surprise me. It's so over used it has become a joke.

[sasami]

I'm going to respectfully disagree. Partially.

There are a few businesses out there, say about 0.0001%, for whom the Papyrus typeface would be appropriate. (And I imagine most of these are stationary shops and the like.) For the other 99.9999%, including anywhere you could put your Masters degree to use, it's inappropriate.

[awriter]

*groan*