jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Most people erroneously call them fonts, but they are actually typefaces. A font includes the typeface, its size, and any other attributes. According to a famous designer, there are only six essential typefaces.

Garamond - looks smart
Bodoni - looks elegant
Century Expanded - very readable, required, used by the Supreme Court
Futura (1930s) - versatile
Times New Roman - developed for the NY Times magazine
Helvetica - the most popular typeface. There is a documentary about it.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=helvetica+documentary

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I like Book Antigua.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Sorry, but that's not on the list. You'll have to drop it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4cW79vF1mU

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Hahaha.

Office has at least 12 I can pick from.
I think there are more that 50 available on my system.
The bad part is that if one uses a font on a web page that is not part of the standard "font set" on computers,
the font must be put up on the server and referenced in the page code. I had to do that.
Same with documents. Everyone thinks all computers have/show the same fonts.
They don't.
Computers will "substitute" a font if it doesn't have the specified one available.
The ones in the list probably ARE available on all computers.
"Sleepy Hollow" is one that is not... But it's a neat font.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I use Lucida Handwriting sometimes for gift cards.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

My company used Calibri Light. They expected that decision to save on toner costs. I have no idea if it worked, but I saw dozens of docs with a different font chosen.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I have a dyslexic issue and although I can read pretty much any word I find CALIBRI easier to read and usually I respace the lines to 1.25.

All the company stuff (before I retired) was Times new Roman at ordinary spacing and was a nightmare for me.

CobblestoneLane Loc: Midwest

Garamond is my favorite typeface but I never use it. At small sizes (10 point, or even 12 point) it looks chunky when printed with typical consumer-grade printers. The typeface is very detailed and my printer doesn't have the resolution to do it justice.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

For my email and some forums, I use Eras OTC a lot, at 14-point, Italic, medium-dark blue. There are a number of different ones I will use frequently, however. I used to use Comic Sans, then Calibri, and a script from time to time, as appropriate. Most times, I tend to try to match the occasion.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

BrHawkeye

I've always liked Garamond and long ago worked at the first newspaper in the U.S. to adopt Helvetica.

ddgm Loc: Hamilton, Ontario & Fort Myers, FL

I prefer Comic Sans for e-mails

BebuLamar

Jerry
My computer doesn't have all six. It doesn't have neither futura nor helvetica. Also I have the Century but not Expanded. You think I have to get them?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

My default typeface is Times New Roman

I have preferred serif typefaces ever since I started programming (on paper, in preparation for getting time on the card punch). It was quickly apparent that sans serif characters have too many ambiguities. For example, the character '|' could be a one, an upper case 'I', or a lower case 'L' or even a solidus. For text, this is not usually a problem because you can figure out which character it is by context. However, in programming, you use arbitrary sets of characters for variable names. So I started using serif typefaces in writing. When typefaces became more available in printers, I opted for Times New Roman because it was easy to recognize, it was readily available, and differentiated between the characters that gave trouble.

Back in the day, there were many schools that used yellow chalk on a green board. I sometimes found it hard to read that. The best contrast is obtained with black on white (ir white on black). With handwriting these days, you don't want anything to interfere with an accurate depiction of the writing. Sometimes even then I can't read my own writing if it was written long enough ago that I don't remember writing it.

I have avoid fancy typefaces for the most part, although handwriting typefaces are sometimes useful for cards. Many, many years ago, when we first moved to Massachusetts, (40 years ago) we would travel for Thanksgiving and Christmas down the east coast to PA or DE for family gatherings. The route involved the MA turnpike. It cost $0.50. We usually took Route 20 instead, which was free. On that road there was a motel. It had a sign with fancy script with yellow characters on a brown background. It was at a curve, and we were usually traveling at 50mph or so, so we had a view of the sign for about 1 second. We could NOT make out the name of the motel. The best we could do was the Ragweed motel. After about 10-15 years of this, we encountered traffic so we passed the motel slowly and found that it was the Redwood motel.

I have always avoided fancy typefaces since that time.

I had occasion to drive route 20 about 3 years ago. We had placed the location of the motel in our GPS by that time so I knew where to look. It was gone. Replaced by a development. Apparently nobody wanted to stay at the Ragweed motel.

BebuLamar

For programming I prefer Courier the monospace typeface

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

Three of those do not exist among the plethora of typefaces supported by MS Word.