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How to Choose the Best Font for PowerPoint Presentations

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An image on a slide may speak a thousand words, but you do need text to explain the finer details. And that’s where choosing the best font for PowerPoint presentations becomes a critical exercise. In short, if you want to make a flawless PowerPoint presentation , you must pay attention to your fonts.

The interesting thing about fonts is that each has a personality. It’s like the three-piece suit that will be out of place at a barbeque but is perfect for an evening at the Savoy.

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Why is choosing the right fonts so critical?

Slides aren’t like the pages of a book. They are billboards on the highway. 

When you run through your slides, they will linger for just a few seconds. The words on the slides have to capture interest, send the right message, and support the visuals in those few seconds.

Fonts influence your audience by setting the tone and atmosphere of the presentation. The right choice of fonts or font pairings can make your text stand out by separating it from other elements around it. Typefaces are also brand symbols that help the audience relate to it through the presentation.

Before you get into the deep end, let’s learn the distinction between two major font types.

What are serif and sans serif fonts?

Times New Roman is the classic example of a serif font. The letters have tiny extensions that appear to connect them together in words as one letter leads to the next. 

Newspapers and magazines use serif fonts for body text as they are easier to read. Serif fonts have distinct line heights that make them more legible in dense copy.

Best font for PowerPoint presentation - serif font

They lose this clarity if you pack them together in the body. That’s why designers recommend sans serif fonts for titles, headings, and captions in your slides.

Best font for PowerPoint presentation - sans serif font

The critical font pair: title vs body text

All Microsoft PowerPoint presentations by default start with two fonts — one font for the headings and one for the body text. This font pairing decides the entire look of the presentation. The theme plays an important role in the font choices and even blank presentations give you a theme to build upon.

The first question you may have to answer is how big your fonts should be? The simple answer is that it depends. Factors like screen size and room size dictate the limits of font size. Font sizes can hinge upon you emailing the presentation or delivering it live on stage or on a PC screen in a remote meeting. 

Also, all fonts have an optimum size for legibility. Arial is clear at 12pts while Times New Roman is readable at 10pts. 

Most presentation experts recommend these size ranges. The thumb rule — a larger font size with less text on screen is always good.

The default slide in PowerPoint starts with 60pts for section headers and 24pts for body font.

  • Header Font: Between 26 and 42 point
  • Body Font: Between 18 and 24 point

You can use the same font for both, but that can limit the visual impact of your slide.

10 tips for choosing the best font for PowerPoint presentations

Never sacrifice readability for style. With that motto in mind, follow these Microsoft PowerPoint tips to choose the best fonts for your business presentation or any other.

1. Choose two fonts

Three fonts can be a crowd. Choose two fonts wisely and use size, contrast, and color to combine them for visual interest. Font pairing is a critical part of PowerPoint presentations and you will have to spend a lot of time on this decision. The second font shouldn’t be too unlike or too similar to the primary typeface where you miss the distinction.

Tip: There are many font pairing tools available on the web. But play the TypeConnection typography game if you want to get better at it yourself.

2. Choose standard fonts

You want your presentation to look the same on all devices. Choose from standard fonts and you won’t have to rescue your slides from turning into a mishmash on another screen. You can be more imaginative if you are presenting to children or at Comic Con, but standard fonts are the safest bet always.

Tip: Here’s a complete list of fonts available on Windows 10 .

Best font for PowerPoint presentation - times new roman

3. Avoid script fonts and decorative text

Script fonts like Lucida Calligraphy or Gothic fonts like Century are always difficult to read. You can use them if the topic of the talk demands it.

4. Create visual interest with serif and sans serif fonts

As we emphasized earlier, serif and sans serif fonts have their own advantages and disadvantages. You can pair them and tap into their strengths.

Best font for PowerPoint presentation - Corbel

5. Select color and create contrast

Go for font colors that are a part of your brand. Using color swatches and precise Hexadecimal or RGB values ensures colors stay consistent across slides. 

Also, you might have to check your slide for accessibility for all as someone in the audience can be color blind and may not be able to decipher red or green.

Tip: There are many color palette generators available on the web for free. Try Coolors .

6. Have contrasting text and background colors

Fonts must stand out against the background. The higher the contrast between the two, the better the readability across the room will be. Use the color wheel to pick the background and the font colors. Opposite colors on the color wheel clash with each other and have the maximum contrast. For instance, orange on blue.

Always use the same background on each slide. Text against white backgrounds is not legible in a larger room. For the best results, opt for dark slides with light-colored text.

Tip: Go through a gallery of well-designed PowerPoint templates or use PowerPoint Designer as a shortcut to grasp the interplay of contrast.

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7. Less is more with caps and italics

Don’t capitalize all the letters in the body text as it is difficult to read. Selectively use caps for acronyms and for emphasis. Similarly, choose italics sparingly for quotes or highlighting the names of books, authors, and journal titles, etc. 

You can make a creative choice by using italic text sparingly for impact or you can also substitute them with subtle formatting to the standard fonts.

Tip: Caps and italics may be able to work with specific fonts, but you may need access to those fonts. You can use Picsart's text editor to play around with text that may suit your presentation better.

8. Limit the use of animated fonts

Animated fonts can be distracting. Avoid animating your text or use it only if it serves a functional purpose. Ask yourself if it adds clarity to your data or is just a cute effect.

9. Keep an eye on font tracking and kerning

Learn these two typography terms and you will have an easier time placing your words on the slide. Kerning adjusts the spacing between two adjacent letters in a font. Tracking adjusts the space between all letters together. Both influence the readability of text.

For instance, you can avoid using narrow or condensed typefaces. Instead, pick a thicker font and tweak it with tracking and kerning within PowerPoint. 

For more on changing the spaces between text, read this Microsoft support article .

Tip: Play the KernType typography game to get familiar with the basics of the two principles.

Best font for PowerPoint presentation - Kern

10. Make interesting shape effects

It doesn’t always have to be just about fonts and simple colors. The Shape Effects panel on PowerPoint gives you a lot of control over the finished appearance of text on the slide. 

For instance, you can adjust the transparency of the letters. You can also “texturize” the words by using pictures to fill the words instead of a solid fill color. 

  • Select the word and right click. 
  • From the context menu, click on Format Text Effects.
  • The Format Shape panel is displayed on the right. 
  • Select Text Options > Text Fill & Outline.
  • Choose Picture or texture fill. 

You can now use an image or any texture to decorate your words. Picture or texture fills are a creative way to use standard fonts but still make them stand apart on your slides. Of course, never overdo it. 

Tip: Shape effects go well with thicker fonts.

Best font for PowerPoint presentation

15 of the most versatile fonts you can use in PowerPoint

These fonts (and a few more) are versatile because they are standard fonts and are available on both Windows and macOS. You don’t have to go after fancy typefaces just yet. Focus on your layout. Use the design pointers from the above list and give your slides an attractive makeover.

  • Franklin Gothic
  • Times New Roman
  • Palatino       

Think of typography in PowerPoint as design

Practice with your eye. Play one font against the other for interesting unions. Typography isn’t just for selecting fonts and using them to occupy your slide with words. It is an essential design element in any place where visual communication matters. You can design your presentations faster once you work out how fonts work together and learn a bit about color theory. 

Want to learn more about how good design comes together? Start with some of the basic and advanced PowerPoint techniques .

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Saikat Basu

Saikat is a writer who hunts for the latest tricks in Microsoft Office and web apps. He doesn't want to get off the learning curve, so a camera and a harmonica claim an equal share of his free time.

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10 Best fonts to use in your next PowerPoint presentation

  • Written by: Elly Hughes
  • Categories: PowerPoint design
  • Comments: 15

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The design choices we make in our presentations – the colours, the icons, the photography and illustrations – all form a kind of shorthand through which our audiences recognise our brand and get a feel for the message we’re aiming to communicate. The same goes for the fonts we use. Fonts have as big an impact on design style as the visuals. Beautiful photography and well-designed icons can all be undermined by a poorly-chosen typeface. You need to use a font that aligns with the rest of your design style, and with the personality you’re trying to convey. You need a font with the right ‘voice.’

But how do we pick one? Before we get into our recommendations for 10 of the best presentation fonts, let’s run through some of the questions you can ask to help you decide.

Is it a Windows-standard font?

Before we get started this is probably the most important question to ask is if your font should be Windows-standard.

Free download: If you’re not sure what is Windows-standard and what isn’t, then  download this list of Windows-standard fonts for your reference.

We’ll have a look at custom fonts later in this article, but one last question to ask is if the font you intend to use is Windows-standard. Why does this matter? Well, if you make a beautiful presentation using a custom font and then send it to your colleague who doesn’t have the font installed, their version of the presentation will be a huge mess of mis-sized default fonts that isn’t really fit for purpose.

So, if you’re going to be using your presentation on multiple machines, you need something that will work on all of them – you need a Windows-standard font.

And, in case you were wondering, the ten we recommend here are all on that list.

Are you choosing a font for headings or body text?

The first thing to consider is where your text will be used – does it need to be easily readable in longer paragraphs and smaller sizes? Or can you afford to go bigger? Are you looking for a larger, more impactful slide title?

Whether your font is for heading or body text will help inform your answer to the next question…

Serif or sans serif?

Serif fonts have little ticks or ‘wings’ at the end of their lines, and are usually associated with serious, business-like, intellectual content, whereas sans serif fonts – like this one – have no marks on the ends of their lines, and are usually seen as modern, sleek and clean.

General wisdom is that serif fonts are better for print and for body text, as the serifs lead the eye from one character to the next like joined handwriting. Alternatively, sans serif fonts are better for titles and text displayed on a screen. But these are not hard and fast rules! A popular idea is to choose one of each, perhaps titles will be sans serif and body text will be serif, but it’s up to you – choose what feels right for your brand. Do you want to appeal to tradition, to intellectual weight with a serif font, or do you want your text to feel modern, to speak of technology and progress with a sans serif choice? Which leads to the final consideration…

How much familiarity do you want?

Many of the most popular typefaces already have well established voices. Everyone knows Times New Roman is serious, respectable, reliable. Everyone knows Arial is clear, no-nonsense, professional. If you want your audience to feel the familiarity of these tried and tested fonts, easily done! Or do you want to escape the familiar, be a little bit unique and memorable with a font your audience hasn’t already seen that day?

Once you have the answers to these questions, and have decided on the ‘voice’ you want to convey, you are finally ready to start searching for your font! Read on for our recommendations of 10 of the best fonts you can use for your next presentation.

10 best presentation fonts

1. garamond.

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‘Garamond’ actually refers to a style of font, rather than one font in particular. Some examples you may have heard of include Adobe Garamond, Monotype Garamond and Garamond ITC. All of these fonts are slightly different, but all have their origins in the work of Claude Garamond, who designed the original punch cuts in the 1500s, making Garamond fonts some of the oldest around.

Prior to Claude Garamond’s work, fonts were designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes. Garamond’s typefaces however (there are 34 attributed to him), were designed in the Roman style, with the letters’ ascenders vertical and the crossbar of the letter ‘e’ horizontal, instead of slanted as in earlier calligraphic fonts. The letters were designed this way to increase legibility in print, which is what makes Garamond fonts such a great choice for body text. Such a great choice in fact, that the entire Harry Potter series is printed in Adobe Garamond. Outside of print, Garamond fonts have been used in the logos of numerous brands, including Rolex and Abercrombie and Fitch, and giants Google and Apple.

With their rich history and elegant readability, you can be confident that a Garamond font will bring a timeless sophistication to your slides, while keeping your text legible.

2. Palatino

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Palatino was designed by Hermann Zapf in 1949. Based on the type styles of the Italian Renaissance, Palatino draws influence from calligraphy, and is in fact named after master calligrapher Giambattista Palatino – a contemporary of Claude Garamond. Zapf intended Palatino for use in headings, advertisements and printing. More specifically, it was designed to remain legible when printed on low quality paper, printed at small size or viewed at a distance.

Palatino Linotype is the version of the font included with Microsoft products, and has been altered slightly from the original for optimum display on screens. Book Antiqua, also a Microsoft default font, is very similar, almost impossible to tell from Palatino Linotype.

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Both of these fonts are good choices for body text – a little unusual, they will set your slides apart in a sea of Arial and Times New Roman, while with their airy counters and smooth, calligraphic lines, maintaining elegance and readability.

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Verdana was designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft in 1996, deliberately crafted for use on computer screens. The letters are widely spaced, with wide counters and tall lowercase letters, making this font extremely readable, especially when displayed at small sizes. Verdana is also nearly ubiquitous, it has been included with all versions of Windows and Office since its creation. One survey estimates it is available on 99.7% of Windows computers, and 98.05% of Macs. On the one hand, this makes it a very safe bet – you are almost guaranteed your presentation will appear as you intended on all devices, but on the other hand, you may not stand out from the crowd as much as you may like!

You can’t argue with its legibility though. Verdana is an excellent font to use for small text, for example, to keep your footnotes, references and disclaimers readable. Or, for a safer choice, Verdana’s unobtrusive, effortlessly legible characters will keep your audience’s attention on what you have said, not the font you’ve used to say it.

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If you’ve used a Windows computer, used Skype, played on an Xbox 360 or just seen the Microsoft logo, you have seen a font from the Segoe family. Microsoft uses Segoe fonts for its logos and marketing materials, and Segoe UI has been the default operating system font since Windows Vista. This is all down to its beautiful simplicity, and on-screen legibility. Similarly to Verdana, Segoe fonts look perfect on screens and at small sizes, and are warm and inviting while maintaining the airy, aspirational feel of technology and progress. Unlike Verdana though – which has wide spaces and heavier letters – Segoe fonts are also a great choice for titles and headers.

Another fun bonus from the Segoe font family is the expansive set of symbols and icons it offers. From the insert tab in PowerPoint, click symbol, and change the symbol font to either Segoe UI Symbol, or Segoe UI Emoji, and marvel at the reams and reams of symbols to choose from. There are shapes, arrows, musical notes, mathematical notation, scientific notation, there are animals, buildings, food, Mahjong tiles, Fraktur letters, I Ching hexagrams… Likely any symbol you could possibly want is in there!

So for easy to read body text, light, elegant headers, or a quick and easy way to bring just about any icon you can think of into your presentation, the Segoe font family is a perfect choice.

5. Franklin Gothic

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What is it that makes a font ‘gothic?’ There’s certainly nothing about Franklin Gothic that speaks of bats in belfries or doomed lovers wandering the Yorkshire moors! Well, confusingly, when describing fonts ‘Gothic’ can mean completely opposite things – it is sometimes used to refer to a Medieval-style, blackletter font, or conversely, it can be used as a synonym for the clean, geometric, sans serif fonts that began their rise to prominence in the early 19 th century. And that’s certainly the category Franklin Gothic fits into.

Designed by Morris Fuller for the American Type Founders in 1902 and named after the American printer and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Gothic is a classic American font that has been described as ‘square-jawed and strong-armed, yet soft-spoken.’ With its wide range of weights and widths, and interesting design details (take a look at the uppercase Q and lowercase g for some beautiful, unusual curves, and the uppercase A and M for subtly varying line weights), Franklin Gothic will look strong and approachable as your headings, and classy and legible as your body text.

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Candara was designed by Gary Munch, and released with Windows Vista in 2008. It is part of a family of six Microsoft fonts, all beginning with the letter C (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Corbel and Constantia), that were all optimised for use with Microsoft’s ClearType rendering system.

The most interesting thing about Candara, and what makes it such a beautiful font to use, is the influence of architecture on its design. If you look closely at the letters’ ascenders, you will notice an entasis at their ends, which means there is a slight convex curve towards the ends of the lines – a feature best known from classical architecture. Columns built by ancient Greek, Roman, Incan, Aztec and Chinese empires were built with this convex curve, a particularly famous example being the columns of the Parthenon in Athens. Historians believe columns were built in this way to give an impression of greater strength, to correct for the visual illusion that very tall, straight columns appear to bow inwards as they rise.

And the architectural influence doesn’t end there, Candara’s diagonal lines – best seen in the capital X, N and A – have been designed with unusual ogee curves. Most often seen in Gothic arches from 13 th and 14 th century Britain, an ogee curve is part convex, part concave, forming a shallow S shape as it rises. Two ogee curves meeting in the middle form an arch that rises to a point – like Candara’s capital A.

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These entases and ogee curves are what makes this font pleasingly unusual. At first glance, it is a standard, easy-to-read sans serif that looks crisp and clear on screen, but on closer inspection, Candara has some interesting design details that set it apart. Candara is perhaps not the most serious looking font, but if you’d like something slightly unusual, but still professional and perfectly legible, consider Candara.

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Similarly to Garamond, Bodoni refers not to a single font, but to a family of typefaces inspired by the centuries old work of a master typographer. Giambattista Bodoni was an extremely successful master printer who lived and worked in the Italian city of Parma through the late 18 th and early 19 th century. Along with a French typographer named Firmin Didot, Bodoni was responsible for developing the ‘New Face’ style of lettering, characterised by extreme contrast between thick and razor thin lines.

You will have seen this in action if you have ever glanced at a fashion magazine. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle all print their names in a Bodoni font. In fact, these fonts are so prevalent in fashion graphic design that they have become a shorthand for the elegance and refinement the fashion world idealises.

The sharp lines and smooth curves of these fonts have been compared to the precise geometries of fabric patterns, and their delicate, graceful forms afford them a sophisticated femininity. This delicacy also make these fonts perfect for overlaying photographs. You will notice from the fashion magazine covers how the titles maintain their presence, but don’t overpower the photograph beneath. You can use this to great effect in your own designs; if you need to layer text over photographs, Bodoni fonts could be a stylish and sophisticated answer.

Best used in headings displayed at large sizes where contrasting line weights will have maximum impact, Bodoni fonts will instantly instil your design with an effortless, timeless elegance. Bodoni himself wrote that the beauty of type lies in “conformity without ambiguity, variety without dissonance, and equality and symmetry without confusion.” Bodoni fonts have all those things in abundance, and are some of the most beautiful fonts you can choose to use.

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If Bodoni fonts are just that bit too extreme, try Bell MT instead. They have similar roots – both Bodoni and Bell fonts were influenced by the work of French typographer Fermin Didot, and have the same ‘New Face’ style contrast between thick and thin lines, just to a lesser extent with Bell fonts.

Designed in 1788 by the punch cutter Richard Austin, commissioned by the publisher John Bell, Bell fonts share similarities with Didot style fonts, but also with softer, rounder Roman fonts of the time such as Baskerville. The influence of flowing, cursive style fonts such as Baskerville can be seen in letters such as the uppercase Q and K, and the italic Y and z , which all have some beautiful, unusual curves. In fact, Bell MT is particularly attractive in italic, almost script-like while maintaining legibility. This makes it an excellent choice for sub-headings, as a softer counterpart to a sans serif heading. Or use it for quotes and testimonials, set in a beautiful Bell italic they will be inviting and authentic, as well as clear and readable.

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Coming from an indigenous Salishan language, Tahoma is one of the original Native American names for Mount Rainier in the US state of Washington.

Tahoma the font however was designed by the British typographer Matthew Carter working for Microsoft, and was released with Windows 95. It is a very close cousin of Verdana, but though similar, Tahoma is a little narrower and more tightly spaced than Verdana, giving it a more slender, slightly more formal feel. It is another example of a font that was designed specifically for screen use, meaning it will look good at a wide range of sizes, and on a wide range of screens, perfect if you are making a presentation that will need to display properly on multiple devices.

In fact, perfect clarity is what sets Tahoma apart from some similar sans serif fonts. The image below shows the characters uppercase I (eye), lowercase l (ell) and number 1 (one) written in four popular sans serif fonts (from left to right) Century Gothic, Calibri, Gill Sans and Tahoma. Notice how in every font but Tahoma, at least two characters are indistinguishable. Gill Sans, for example, is a disaster here. It’s unlikely you’ll ever need to write these three characters in quick succession, but for scientific, technical or mathematical content, clear distinction between these characters can be very important – and Tahoma gives you that.

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So with its easy to read, screen friendly design and readily distinguishable characters, Tahoma is an ideal choice for the slightly more formal, but still approachable, scientific or technical presentation.

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Designed by Jeremy Tankard and released in 2005, like Candara Corbel was also designed to work well with Microsoft’s ClearType rendering system, meaning it is specifically designed to work well on screens. Tankard described his aim when designing Corbel as ‘to give an uncluttered and clean appearance on screen,’ and describes the font as ‘legible, clear, and functional at small sizes.’ All of these things are important boxes to tick when you’re looking for a presentation font!

Corbel is a little more serious than Candara, again in Tankard’s words: ‘functional but not bland,’ designed to be ‘less cuddly, more assertive.’ The dots above the i’s and j’s for example are square, not rounded. The tail of the uppercase Q is straight and horizontal, not a whimsical curve. This makes Corbel a good choice for more serious or technical content, it is legible and without excessive embellishment, yet not characterless or overused.

One of the most interesting design details with Corbel is the fact that with this font, numbers are lowercase. What does this mean? Take a look at the image below, where you can see a comparison of how the numbers 0-9 appear in Corbel with how they appear in another popular sans serif font, Segoe UI. Notice how the Corbel numbers don’t line up exactly? This is know as lowercase or old-style numerals.

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The purpose of this is to improve how numbers look when they form part of body text – they are a more natural fit with lowercase lettering. Few fonts have this option (for a serif option offering lowercase numbers, consider Georgia, also a Windows standard font), meaning Corbel can make a for a very unique choice. It will be both legible and readable, and its unusual numbers will add a unique and pleasing design touch to your slides.

What about custom fonts?

Sometimes what we want is not the familiar, the comforting, the Arial and the Times New Roman, sometimes we just want something different . This is your opportunity to step into the almost infinite world of custom fonts. Here you can find fonts to fit almost any imaginable need. From timeless and elegant and crisp and futuristic, to ornate scripts and decorative novelties, there will be a custom font for you.

But a word of warning on non-system fonts – custom fonts can be a powerful, attractive component of your presentation design, but if used incorrectly, they can also be its undoing.

A custom font will only appear in your presentation if it is played on a device with that font installed . On any other device, PowerPoint will replace your beautiful, carefully planned custom font with one of the system defaults, and this can have disastrous consequences for your design.

If your presentation is going to be built and presented exclusively from the same device you shouldn’t have a problem, but if multiple devices or operating systems are involved, or if you intend to share your presentation for others to use, to ensure your fonts survive the jump it is safer to stay in the realms of the system default fonts. There you can be confident your carefully crafted designs will stay exactly as you envisaged them, and you can concentrate on delivering the very best presentation.

You can find a useful PDF here detailing which fonts are available on all platforms for maximum compatibility.

Whatever font you do choose for your next PowerPoint presentation, ask yourself two questions:

  • Does this font have the right ‘voice’ for your brand?
  • Is it easy to read?

If the answer to both of the above is yes, then you are on to a winner. You know best what fits with your brand, and if a font captures your unique voice, and makes your slides easy for your audience to read, you are one step closer to that perfect presentation.

Further reading

For more advice on choosing the best font for your next presentation, and then making the very best of it in your design, take a look at our other articles:

  • 10 typography tips and tricks to get you started
  • Advanced typography in PowerPoint
  • https://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/futura-font-on-the-moon-christopher-burke-book
  • https://fontmeme.com/famous-logos-created-with-futura-font/
  • https://cei.org/blog/adobe-garamond-harry-potter-books-not-character-font
  • https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/franklin-gothic/
  • https://study.com/academy/lesson/entasis-definition-architecture-architects.html
  • https://study.com/academy/lesson/ogee-arches-definition-construction.html
  • http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/through-thick-and-think-fashion-and-type
  • https://www.quora.com/Why-don%E2%80%99t-lowercase-and-uppercase-numbers-exist
  • https://typographica.org/on-typography/microsofts-cleartype-font-collection-a-fair-and-balanced-review/
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/clear-type-font-collection
  • In addition – Wikipedia pages for each font in the list were used

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Thank you very much for sharing such useful information!

what is the font you used in the text above

We use GT Walsheim as our corporate font (web, print)(which one has to pay for), but because it’s not a Windows standard font we actually use Segoe UI in our presentations.

What is a Bold font we can use?

What is the name of font you use on this website for writing information ..I want this font

It’s GT Walsheim .

Wow that was good but maybe add Mali to the best fonts for google slides and docs

What is the font of the article?

See above in the comments… GT Walsheim

Loved it. Thanks a lot Bright Carbon team

What font did you write this article in?

See comments above – GT Walsheim, which is a paid font, and not great for presentations as it isn’t on many machines.

Thanks, this helped me with my school presentation!

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Academic Appeal: The 11 Best Fonts for Academic Papers

  • BY Bogdan Sandu
  • 26 February 2024

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Imagine settling into the rhythm of crafting your academic magnum opus—the words flow, ideas chime, yet it all hinges on how your prose meets the reader’s eye. You’re well aware that  the best fonts for academic papers  don’t just whisper to the intellect; they shout to the discerning critic in each evaluator. Here unfolds a narrative, not merely of  typography  but your academic saga’s silent ambassador.

In forging this guide, I’ve honed focus on one pivotal, often underestimated player in the academic arena:  font selection .

Navigate through this roadmap and emerge with a treasure trove of  legible typefaces  and format tips that ensure your paper stands hallmark to clarity and professionalism.

Absorb insights—from the revered  Times New Roman  to the understated elegance of  Arial —paired with indispensable  formatting nuggets  that transcend mere compliance with  university guidelines .

Dive deep, and by article’s end, unlock a dossier of sage advice, setting your documents a class apart in the scrutinous world of academic scrutiny. Here’s to  typography  serving not just as a vessel but as your ally in the scholarly discourse.

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GROUP PRESENTATION: TIMES NEW ROMAN

FRESH OFF THE PRESS

Have you received a copy of our Limited Edition Times New Roman issue 001?

Well wait no further.

TIMES NEW ROMAN

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Our final presentation pieces!

  • Newspapers 
  • Portraits of Stanley Morrison
  • Portrait of Stanley Morrison made out of TNR characters

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Cover Page: A brief introduction of Times New Roman.

Introducing the creators Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent who collaborated and commissioned Times New Romans for The Times in 1929.

Typeface layout- Showcasing Times New Romans.

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Spread 1: The beginnings of a classic typeface & how it evolved through time.

A typeface inspired by efficiency and readability, its origins began from Baskerville, Plantin, Imprint, and others.

Significant changes from older types:

Higher X-height

Reduced tracking

Thicker portions of each letter widened

Thinner intersections of the thicker portions

Rounder and condensed look for maximum readibilty

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Spread 2: Modern changes to the original typeface and applications of Times New Roman

Keeping Up With The Times

The advent of new technology and newer typefaces meant that Times New Romans needed an upgrade. Hence, the birth of alternatives such as Times Roman, Times Europa, Times Classic, and Times Millenium… just to name a few.

Applications through the years

Originally meant for print, TNR is a great body text and has been widely used in the formal publishing industry- newspapers, books, and legal documents. However, it has slowly been replaced by updated typefaces and though ubiquitous, it is seldom used as a major typeface.

Instead, people use it out of habit or because of its long-standing legacy.

TNR connotes an apathetic, non-choice typeface.

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Spread 3: Opinions on the classic typeface and activities

To be honest, we can all agree that Times New Roman is increasingly labelled as “outdated” and “old”, and rarely used today. Even so, it has found its way into the design industry, with some designers intentionally using Times New Roman to produce some amazing works. We also included some fun activities for our classmates to try as we realised that Times New Roman looked similar to many other fonts. The activity helps them to see the difference between these fonts and Times New Roman and identify what makes Times New Roman unique, that stands out from these fonts.

PROCESS & RESEARCH

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Reference books that we borrowed from the library.

These books really helped us a lot in our research and finding images for the uses of Times New Roman. The books also had information on the newer typefaces such as Times Classic and Times Millennium, which was hard to dig out from the internet, where a lot of information was unreliable.

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Working on the layout of our version of The Times newspaper.

We wanted to keep it as authentic as possible, hence referring to the original layout of The Times. We started with a blank canvas and added in each element one by one. As we needed to fill up the pages but also keep it concise and readable, we had to pick and choose the information we wanted to add in, rephrasing certain parts to fit the page better. It was very time consuming but worth it when we saw the final product!

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The planning of the pages of our newspaper! (it took us so long to come up with the layout)

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Before and after photos of how we made Stanley Morison’s Typographic portrait

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A typographic portrait of our lecturer Shirley 😀

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We changed the original layout a little, reducing the thickness of the box, making it more appealing

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A3 size for peers on the left and A1 size for presentation on the right.

MESS AT THE PRINTING SHOP (it cost us like $23 to print because none of the printing shop could print in A1 except one) But we were happy with how it turned out so it all worked out in the end.

PRESENTATION DAY

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Shirley recording us present :’) while our peers are listening attentively!

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Choosing the right fonts for your PowerPoint presentation

Using the right Powerpoint font can have a positive impact on your audience’s understanding of your message, and their reaction to it. Typography is an integral part of design, and it plays a big role in the effectiveness of your PowerPoint presentations. And not just from an aesthetic perspective.

The first mistake a lot of people make when choosing their PowerPoint font is looking for something ‘cool’, and many users are quick to write off fonts like Arial for being boring. Don’t fall into that trap. When it comes to many PowerPoint presentations functional is more important than fancy, and some of the most standard-looking fonts are also the best at making your slides look clean and professional.

An added bonus is that standard fonts are installed on most computers, so there’s no risk of your presentation not displaying correctly on other machines.

Which fonts should I avoid?

Handwriting-style fonts such as Mistral and Viner Hand – while fun in some situations – can make your slides look unprofessional as well as being virtually impossible to read from a distance. Similarly, ‘quirky’ fonts such as Comic Sans are more appropriate for material aimed at children than corporate presentations.

Display fonts such as Forte and Stencil should be used sparingly, for example as large headers. Never use a display font for text smaller than 14pt.

Serif or sans serif?

Sans serif fonts (the ones without curly bits) are usually the best choice for headers. Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, and Verdana are just a few of them. Serif fonts (with curly bits) such as Times New Roman are great for body text and will make text-heavy slides more readable.

Things to keep in mind when choosing a PowerPoint font for your presentation:

Depending on how your slides will be presented, the general rule for presentation content is the bigger the better. Audience members sitting at the back of the room won’t appreciate having to squint at 12pt text, and they’re definitely less likely to remember your message.

Readability

Presenters often layer text with other elements on their slides, such as full image backgrounds. Use contrasting colours or place colour bars behind text to maximise readability.

Consistency

Stick to a maximum of 3 fonts throughout your presentation – preferably 2. For example, one sans serif font for all your headers, and a serif font for the rest.

Different fonts appeal to different people, so keep your audience in mind when scrolling down the font list. If you’re presenting to a room full of finance execs, using a swirly, decorative font isn’t likely to earn you much respect.

If standard fonts just aren’t cutting it for your presentation, there are some excellent resources for free, high-quality fonts on the web. FontSquirrel is a popular site offering thousands of free fonts for commercial use. Browse by tag, classification, recently added, and more. Another excellent (and free!) option is Adobe Edge Web Fonts – brought to you by Adobe, Google, and designers across the globe.

As we mentioned earlier, using a downloaded font can be risky if your presentation will be viewed on other computers that may not have the font installed. If you’ve used a True Type font (marked with a TT in the font drop-down menu in PowerPoint) you can embed it in the presentation file. This means the font will be sent along with your presentation and will display correctly.

To embed a font in PowerPoint 2016:

  • Click on File and then Options
  • Select Save in the left pane
  • Check Embed fonts in the file in the Preserve fidelity when sharing this presentation: section
  • Choose the option that best applies to your situation under Embed fonts in the file

Note: Embed functionality is not available in PowerPoint for Mac 2016

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Have you ever spent hours carefully choosing the perfect fonts for your PowerPoint presentation, only to find that the fonts seem to randomly change when you send your presentation to someone else? It can be incredibly frustrating when those beautiful heading fonts turn into Times New Roman or the body text font gets replaced with something less readable.

The good news is that with a few simple tips, you can keep your PowerPoint presentation fonts from changing when others view or edit your slides. In this article, I’ll explain why PowerPoint fonts change and show you how to lock fonts so they stay consistent regardless of what computer is opening the file .

Why Do PowerPoint Fonts Change?

PowerPoint fonts can change when you share your presentation because the fonts you’ve used may not be installed on the other person’s computer.

For example, if you use a font like Baskerville that comes standard on your Windows computer, a Mac user opening your PowerPoint would not have that font. PowerPoint substitutes the missing font for one that is installed on the user’s computer, resulting in the font change.

Fonts can also shift if someone edits your presentation and manually changes them, not realizing you had specially chosen certain fonts to match your company or presentation branding.

So how do you safeguard your font choices?

Embed Fonts in PowerPoint

The best way to prevent PowerPoint font changes is to embed the fonts into the actual presentation file. This ensures that anyone opening the file will see the precise fonts you selected.

Here are step-by-step instructions for embedding fonts in PowerPoint:

  • Open your PowerPoint presentation and click the “File” tab.
  • Click “Options” in the left sidebar.
  • Click “Save” on the left and check the box next to “Embed fonts in the file.”
  • Click “OK” to save your changes.

Once you embed the fonts, anyone who views or edits that PowerPoint presentation will see the original font choices. The fonts essentially travel within the presentation file itself.

Pro Tip: If you’ll be presenting on a different computer than the one you created the slides on, also be sure those fonts are installed there as a backup.

Use Common Standard Fonts

In addition to embedding fonts, you can avoid font changes by using common fonts that come pre-installed on most computers, such as:

  • Times New Roman

Sticking with these standard fonts reduces the likelihood of substitutions.

However, if you’ve chosen specific fonts to match your branding, embedding them is still the best approach to prevent font changes when sharing your presentation.

Set Font Theme

Another option is to set a font theme for your entire presentation. This allows you to choose a heading font and body text font that will remain consistent on every slide.

Here’s how to create a custom font theme in PowerPoint:

  • Design tab > Variants > Fonts
  • In the drop-down menu, click “Customize Fonts”
  • Choose your desired font for headings and body text
  • Scroll down and click the checkbox for “Do not allow changes” to lock fonts

When you apply this font theme to your slides, the fonts will remain fixed even if the presentation is opened on various computers.

Use Slide Master for Consistency

For maximum font consistency in your presentations, you can also leverage PowerPoint’s slide master feature .

The slide master controls the default look and formatting of every slide in your presentation. This includes the font styles.

To lock in your font choices on all slides:

  • View tab > Slide Master
  • Select the slide master thumbnail
  • Change the heading and text fonts to your preferences
  • Close slide master view

Now every slide will inherit those font selections set in the slide master. This approach, combined with embedding fonts, offers the best protection against font changes during sharing.

Final Tips for Preventing Font Changes

To recap, here are some final tips for keeping fonts consistent in your PowerPoint presentations:

  • Embed fonts in the presentation file
  • Use common standard fonts like Arial and Times New Roman
  • Create a custom font theme and enable “Do not allow changes”
  • Set your desired fonts in the slide master

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The Times New Roman Typeface Debuts

On October 3, 1932  Times New Roman , a serif typeface , made its debut in the London newspaper,  The Times . Its design was supervised by typographer and typographic historian  Stanley Morison of the English branch of Monotype , and drawn by Victor Lardent , an artist from the advertising department of The Times .  Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. 

"The Times considers the introduction of Times New Roman in 1932 as their “greatest change in presentation” (Driver, 2009). Although they only had an exclusive usage right for one year, they stuck with the typeface for forty years. In 1972 Times New Roman was replaced by Times Europa, which was a redesign adapted to faster presses and paper of lower quality. The Times entered the computer age in 1986 with Times Roman. The computer drawn version of the original Times New Roman did not make a quality impression and was therefore replaced by Times Millennium in 1991, which was the first version that was redesigned on a computer. Times Millennium was narrower than its forerunner but allowed more white space around the letters. Times Classic followed in 2002. Seven years later, Times Modern was introduced as the new typeface for the headlines. It was the answer to less space in a smaller-sized newspaper. Hence it is a condensed face" ( https://beatwicki.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/times-new-roman/ ,  accessed 01-17-2015).

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Does Type Font Matter?

It is easy to think that type font doesn’t matter. We read text all the time and have become very accustomed to focusing on the content or message of the words themselves and not what the words look like visually. In reality, the visual appearance of words themselves can (and should) have just as much effect on how a document is received as the content itself. Fonts can create mood and atmosphere. Fonts can give visual clues about the order a document should be read in and which parts are more important than others. Fonts can even be used to control how long it takes someone to read a document.

The professional printing industry has recognized this fact for a long time. Since the 1500s, they have used text called a “Lorem Ipsum” to demonstrate what a font will look like without having the reader become distracted by the meaning of the text itself. Although the term resembles ancient Latin, it is not actually intended to have meaning.

This image says Lorem Ipsum.  The font is a serif font - times new roman.  This is a classic looking font.

Times New Roman

Above is a font that is probably quite familiar to you - Times New Roman. Especially in academic circles, Times New Roman is so popular that you almost have to use a Lorem Ipsum to actually see the curves and spacing characteristics of the font itself.

This image shows the font Arial. It is a sans serif font.

Here is another popular font called Arial. Looking at the Times New Roman and Arial fonts together it’s possible to see some subtle differences. Perhaps the choice to use Times versus Arial won’t make the most drastic of differences; however, there are so many different fonts to choose from that the point becomes much clearer once we move beyond more traditional choices.

This image shows a font called Chalkboard. It resembles text written on a chalkboard in a classroom.

Above is a lesser known font called Chalkboard. This font is so different that it shouldn’t be hard to realize that a page full of text in Chalkboard would look and feel very different from the more traditional Times or Arial.

Understanding how type fonts work involves learning some new terminology and thinking about the cultural codes behind words themselves. However, once you do so, font choice becomes another highly effective way to fuse your documents with additional meaning and rhetorical effectiveness.

What font should I choose for my thesis?

This post is by DrJanene Carey, a freelance writer and editor based in Armidale NSW. She occasionally teaches academic writing at the University of New England and often edits academic theses, articles and reports. Her website is http://www.janenecarey.com

Arguably, this question is a classic time waster and the student who poses it should be told to just get on with writing up their research. But as someone who edits theses for a living, I think a bit of time spent on fonts is part of the process of buffing and polishing what is, after all, one of the most important documents you will ever produce. Just bear in mind that there is no need to immerse yourself so deeply in the topic that you start quibbling about whether it’s a font or a typeface that you are choosing .

Times New Roman is the standard choice for academic documents, and the thesis preparation guidelines of some universities stipulate its use. For many years, it was the default body text for Microsoft Word. With the release of Office 2007, the default became a sans serif typeface called Calibri. Lacking the little projecting bits (serifs) at the end of characters makes Calibri and its many friends, such as Arial, Helvetica and Verdana, look smoother and clearer on a screen, but generally makes them less readable than a serif typeface when used for printed text . The other problem with choosing a sans serif for your body text is that if you want passages in italics (for example, lengthy participant quotes) often this will be displayed as slanted letters, rather than as a true italic font.

You would like your examiners to feel as comfortable as possible while their eyes are traversing the many, many pages of your thesis, so maximising legibility and readability is a good idea. Times New Roman is ubiquitous and familiar, which means it is probably the safest option, but it does have a couple of drawbacks. Originally designed for The Times in London, its characters are slightly narrowed, so that more of them can be squished into a newspaper column. Secondly, some people intensely dislike TNR because they think it has been overused, and regard it as the font you choose when you are not choosing a font .

If you do have the luxury of choice (your university doesn’t insist you use Times New Roman, and you have defined document styles that are easy to modify, and there’s enough time left before the submission deadline) then I think it is worth considering what other typefaces might work well with your thesis. I’m not a typographical expert, but I have the following suggestions.

  • Don’t use Calibri, or any other sans serif font, for your body text, though it is fine for headings. Most people agree that dense chunks of printed text are easier to read if the font is serif, and examiners are likely to expect a typeface that doesn’t stray too far from the standard. To my eye, Calibri looks a little too casual for the body of a thesis.
  • Typefaces like Garamond, Palatino, Century Schoolbook, Georgia, Minion Pro, Cambria and Constantia are all perfectly acceptable, and they come with Microsoft Word. However, some of them (Georgia and Constantia, for example) feature non-lining numerals, which means that instead of all sitting neatly on the base line, some will stand higher or lower than others, just like letters do. This looks nice when they are integrated with the text, but it is probably not what you want for a tabular display.
  • Consider using a different typeface for your headings. It will make them more prominent, which enhances overall readability because the eye scanning the pages can quickly take in the hierarchy of ideas. The easiest way to get a good contrast with your serif body text is to have sans serif headings. Popular combinations are Garamond/Helvetica; Minion Pro/Myriad Pro; Times New Roman/Arial Narrow. But don’t create a dog’s breakfast by having more than two typefaces in your thesis – use point sizes, bold and italics for variety.

Of late, I’ve become quite fond of Constantia. It’s an attractive serif typeface that came out with Office 2007 at the same time as Calibri, and was specifically designed to look good in print and on screen. Increasingly, theses will be read in PDF rather than book format, so screen readability is an important consideration.  Asked to review Microsoft’s six new ClearType fonts prior to their release, typographer Raph Levien said Constantia was likely to be everyone’s favourite, because ‘Even though it’s a highly readable Roman font departing only slightly from the classical model, it still manages to be fresh and new.’

By default, Constantia has non-lining numerals, but from Word 2010 onwards you can set them to be lining via the advanced font/number forms option, either throughout your document or in specific sections, such as within tables.

Here is an excerpt from a thesis, shown twice with different typefaces. The first excerpt features Calibri headings with Constantia body text, and the second has that old favourite, Times New Roman. As these examples have been rendered as screenshots, you will get a better idea of how the fonts actually look if you try them on your own computer and printer.

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Have you read our old post about ‘ Font Pairing Tips and Tricks for Dummies ’? If not, we highly recommend you take a quick look at that typography article. Why is it so? Fonts have as big an influence on design manner as visuals.

Beautiful presentation visuals can all be undermined by poorly chosen typefaces. Hence, you must use a font that follows the rest of your design style, the personality, and the right voice you’re trying to convey.

That insight will help you determine the ideal font before creating your presentation design project using these 20 best fonts for Professional PowerPoint. Good luck!

Best fonts for professional PowerPoint

There are four types of fonts to analyze when looking to choose the best fonts for professional PowerPoint. Shortly, we merged Script and Decorative fonts.

Serif fonts

Serif fonts are traditional ones. They are known for their extra tail (or “feet”) at the end of each letter. Popular Serifs are Times New Roman, Century, Bookman, Lucida, Garamond, and more.

Sans Serif fonts

Sans Serif fonts are those without the tail. The word “Sans” is French for without, and Serif refers to the extra tails. They include Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, and Century Gothic.

Script and decorative fonts

These fonts try to follow handwriting and are mostly reserved for special presentations. Here, you will see the 20 best fonts for professional PowerPoint you can use for your presentations.

What are the best fonts for professional PowerPoint? Let’s have a look at some of the most popular ones!

Using the best fonts for professional PowerPoint is favored for obvious reasons.

It is the ideal choice when looking for a universal, readable Sans Serif PowerPoint font.

See also: 20 Best Creative Custom Fonts PowerPoint Design

Helvetica font family is in its neutral, a font that can blend into any style, like that of a chameleon but in the font world. 

If I could summarise Helvetica in one sentence, it would be: “Clarity with complete simplicity.” In presentations, Helvetica is powerful and can add real impact, but it doesn’t take over the limelight.

Next, one of the oldest fonts created in the 16th century in France by Claude Garamond led the whole European typography.

This font family is worth choosing for companies not chasing trends and making the identity look refined and elegant.

Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface created by Paul Renner and published in 1927.

This font is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design trends of the period.

See also: What Are Sans Serif Fonts? Don’t Get Stuck in the “Serif = Traditional, Sans Serif = Modern” Mindset

Gill Sans was created by British graphic artist and sculptor Eric Gill.

Another Sans Serif font, Gill Sans, gives a friendly and warm look without being too overstressed. Some refer to Gill Sans as ‘the British Helvetica.’

Rockwell font was developed with Monotype Design Studio in 1934, which saw the return to the reputation of slab serif fonts. Rockwell’s strong and friendly characters make this font particularly adaptable.

This font is ready in nine different variations: italics, different weights, and condensed font versions.

Verdana is one of the easy choices of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint. It is a more recent font crafted in 1996 by Mathew Carter for Microsoft, so you know it is optimized for the screen.

Its symbols include wide spaces and counters with tall lower-case letters that increase readability.

In fact, you can use a font like Fira Sans as both your header and body font, with different fonts in the mix to create only an accent font.

While this font is suitable in both normal and bold weights for most of the slide content, we see a nice serif launched as well to balance the single presentation font.

Hermann Zapf created Palatino back in 1949 based on type styles starting from the Italian Renaissance era.

Hermann also intended to keep the font readable on low-quality paper and small-sized prints, including when viewed at a distance, making it the perfect fonts for professional PowerPoint presentation.

Tahoma provides separable characters from each other and looks more like Verdana, albeit tightly spaced for a more formal appearance.

Tahoma fonts arrived with Windows 95 and have since been used in professional PowerPoint presentations for their uniqueness, clarity, and readability.

Georgia is highly appreciated for its beauty and blends thick and thin strokes to give well-spaced Serif characters.

Georgia is the most similar font to Times New Roman, albeit bigger, making it ideal for presentations.

This font was produced with one purpose in mind, and that’s to give clean text without confusion on the screen. It was created particularly for LCD monitors, so you know it’s optimized for any presentation project. 

The font is neat and clean, making it a reasonable choice for any professional PowerPoint presentation that calls for large contrast. Also, its spacing allows for readability at a distance.

The Segoe family of fonts is one of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. 

Segoe is pretty similar to Verdana and maintains a warm, inviting look, and that’s still spacious and precise on screens.

Century Gothic

Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface with a geometrical style. Monotype Imaging published it in 1991, created to fight with the ever-famous Futura. Its style is very similar to the rival but with a larger x-height.

Importantly, this font is useful in advertising, such as headlines, display work, and small quantities of text.

We’ve all seen a million and two presentations using conventional fonts like Arial and Times New Roman.

Plus, Lato’s variety of weights is ready – from thin to light to bold, which helps to increase this font’s overall interest.

Roboto is one of the other great fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. This font is yet another basic sans-serif font that works beyond many industries and types of presentations.

This font style is the perfect font to use for body text. The main body paragraphs are easy to read with this font in professional nuance and well designed.

Montserrat is our favorite font for us here at RRGraph Design.

Besides, this font will let them know what to expect each time you move to a new slide. However, it’s one of the top font selections you can apply for the headings on your professional PowerPoint presentation.

We commonly use Open Sans fonts for professional PowerPoint presentation , especially for body paragraphs due to their legibility.

However, we shouldn’t cut Open Sans like only a paragraph typeface. You can also use it in professional PowerPoint presentations to help your headings stand out sharply.

Libre-Baskerville

Libre-Baskerville is a serif font style with several other fonts and color schemes to create a more traditional look and feel for your slides. 

However, you also can use this font in body paragraphs easily, as it’s clear, legible, and readable.

It has developed in reputation and become something like the “Helvetica of the free fonts.” The family has four new members – Thin, Light, Book, and Regular – added by Fontfabric Type Foundry.

The new weights stay true to the style and grace of Bebas with the familiar clean lines, elegant shapes, a blend of technical straightforwardness, and simple warmth, which make it consistently proper for web, print, commerce, and art.

Are you choosing a font for headings or body text?

The first thing to think about is where you choose a font for headings or body text – does it need to be clearly understandable in longer paragraphs and smaller sizes? Or can you afford to go bigger? Are you looking for a bigger, more impactful slide title?

Whether your font is for the heading or body text will help inform your answer to the next question.

Serif or Sans Serif?

Serif fonts have tiny ticks or ‘wings’ at the end of their lines. Usually, they correlate with strictness, business-like, intellectual content. On the other hand, sans-serif fonts – have no marks on the ends of their lines, and we usually see them as modern, smooth, and clean.

The general sense is that serif fonts are better for print and body text, as the serifs lead the eye from one character to the next, like joined handwriting. Instead, sans serif fonts are better for titles and text displayed on a screen. But these are not complex and fast precepts!

The popular opinion is to pick one of each; possibly titles will be sans serif, and body text will be serif, but it’s up to you. You can determine what feels suitable for your brand. Do you want to appeal to tradition, create an intelligent vibe with a serif font, or want your text to feel fresh, speaking of technology, and progress with a sans serif choice? This leads to your final consideration.

See also: The Only Guide You Need to Download and Install Fonts for Professional PowerPoint

What about custom fonts.

Sometimes what we want is not the ordinary, the comforting, the Arial, and the Times New Roman; sometimes, we want something diverse. This is your opportunity to reach the almost endless world of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. Here, you can find fonts to fit nearly any reasonable necessity. There will be a custom font for you, from timeless, elegant, crisp, and futuristic to embellished scripts and decorative innovations.

But a word of caution on non-system fonts – custom fonts can be a convincing and attractive component of your presentation design. Still, if misused, they can also be its destruction.

A custom font will only appear in your presentation if played on a device by installing the fonts first. PowerPoint will replace your beautiful and carefully planned custom font with one system default on any other device. This can have destructive outcomes for your presentation design.

If you present your presentation exclusively from the same device, you shouldn’t have a puzzle. Still, suppose many devices or operating systems are available or intend to share your presentation with others to ensure your fonts survive the jump. In that case, it is safer to stay in the system’s default fonts. So, you can be confident now. Your carefully crafted designs will remain as you conceived them, and you can focus on delivering the very best professional PowerPoint presentation.

See also: How to Embed Fonts in PowerPoint into Various Platforms

3 tools to help you choose better presentation fonts.

We’ve noted the three helpful tools mention in the video here to help you choose more effective typefaces for your next professional PowerPoint presentation.

Then, we’ve used ‘Fonts in Use many times; it is a handy tool for selecting fonts for any presentation design project.

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Fonts in use.

Lastly, we’ve done the game with the 20 best fonts for professional PowerPoint. That every single person who has ever designed an Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint™ presentation should have it in their arsenal. Please go out and enjoy them.

See also: Font Pairing Tips and Tricks for Dummies

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There are hundreds of thousands of font styles out there in the world, and yet the mainstays in English and Latin-based languages typically boil down to just three: Times New Roman, Arial, and Helvetica. They are everywhere, whether we like it or not: from the papers we wrote in high school to the books we read to instruction manuals to advertisements to journals and newspapers. Somehow, this trio has led the pack of font styles for decades, and became the fonts of choice for a multitude of companies, operating systems, and entire industries.

Let’s find out how they became the most widely used fonts ever .

Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts

In order to really understand why these three are so popular, we need to get to know two common categories for typefaces: serif and sans serif.

Serif fonts use embellishments and flourishes in their characters, which serves the dual purpose of being both decorative and distinct .

examples of Times New Roman font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#/media/File:Times_New_Roman_sample.svg

See those stroke flourishes circled in red? Those are serifs , which are also called “tails” or “feet.” The very look of a serif font is soft, with more rounded characters, and the distinctions of the serifs make the letters easier to read and recognize quickly. Some serif fonts you may have used or seen include Times New Roman, Garamond, and Bodoni.

Serif typefaces are older, dating back to the 18th century when they were designed for the printing press. Because of that longevity, they’re often seen as more traditional fonts. If a company is looking to convey trustworthiness and reliability to their consumer base, for instance, they’ll probably choose a classic serif font to communicate that (such as Apple’s Garamond and the Starbucks’s Lander , which they use for their more “expressive” advertising).

Sans Serif fonts have no frills and no fuss, hence the name; sans (“without”) serif. They use clean, simple lines for their characters and lack the “tails” and “feet” of serif fonts. If you have an iPhone, you see a sans serif font every time you’re on it—the iOS uses SF Pro .

samples of Helvetica font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#/media/File:Helvetica.svg

These fonts are the modern younger siblings of the serif fonts, and are often used to convey a youthful, updated vibe. The character shapes are more geometric in nature, which means they’re 1) easier to read on screens and 2) scale large or small quite well. Although, to be fair, the notion that sans serif fonts are better for computer screens and serif fonts are better for print is an older one, when screen resolutions weren’t as great and serif fonts lost their distinction the smaller they got. Thanks to today’s higher resolution screens, this is no longer a problem. Many, many logos use sans serif fonts, including Target (Helvetica) and Google, which famously made the switch from a serif font to sans serif back in 2015 .

A Quick History Lesson

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Times New Roman was introduced to the world in 1932 by type designer Stanley Morison. He was given the challenge of rebranding London’s newspaper The Times with a fresh new font, and worked with draftsman Victor Lardent to create a serif font that was efficient, in order to maximize the amount of words that could fit in a line and on a page (very important for a newspaper), and readable, since print newspapers go pretty darn small with their font sizes.

The Times owned exclusive rights to their font for about a year, and then it slowly began to take off with American publishers a few years later. According to the New York Public Library , monthly magazine Woman’s Home Companion was the first to adopt Times New Roman in 1941, and the Chicago Sun-Times started using it in 1953.

Helvetica originated in Münchenstein, Switzerland, in 1957 as a commission for the Swiss Haas type foundry. Max Miedinger designed the sans serif typeface to revitalize the company’s sans serif offerings with something more modern and international, since their current selection wasn’t doing so hot. Haas type foundry eventually made a deal with German type foundry D. Stempel AG to manufacture Helvetica for traditional print and widespread reach. D. Stempel AG was later absorbed by the Linotype Company (this will be important later, stay with me).

Arial was born in 1982 to creators Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Corporation, another company that specializes in typesetting and typeface design. This sans serif font is the first of the bunch to be designed specifically for laser printing and personal computers. If you ever wondered why your Windows computer converts PDFs using Helvetica font to Arial, the most similar font the system can find since it doesn’t support Helvetica, it’s because Arial was literally created to be an echo of Helvetica…which is owned by the Linotype Company, a competitor of Monotype.

Why Do We Love Them So?

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We have Microsoft and Apple to thank for that.

Microsoft’s Principle Software Engineering Manager, Greg Hitchcock, wrote extensively about Microsoft and Apple’s cross-license agreement for font technology back in 1989. This would essentially standardize fonts and printer software across the two operating systems, which were respectively named TrueType and TrueImage. Their core fonts would have been more identical…except each computer giant licensed their fonts from different typesetting companies. Microsoft used Monotype, and Apple used Linotype. Thus Microsoft’s core fonts were Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New, and Apple’s core fonts were Times Roman, Helvetica, and Courier.

(Fun fact: Times New Roman and New Roman are essentially the same font, but the original typeface hardware for The Times ‘s font was created jointly by, you guessed it—Monotype and Linotype. They both made sets of the typeface available, just under two slightly different names: Apple chose Linotype’s Times Roman and Microsoft chose Monotype’s Times New Roman.)

So why was Times New Roman one of the chosen few? Because in the early computer days, most documents were printed, and this serif font was widely available and designed for print. On top of Times New Roman showing up on everyone’s Windows computer as the default font, most printed school assignments in the U.S. (please correct me if I’m wrong: I’d love to know what fonts were preferred in other countries!) following the MLA or Chicago style required a Times New Roman, 12 pt font.

The thing is, MLA doesn’t require Times New Roman , and neither does Chicago Style . They merely used this font as an example of an “easily readable typeface” in their formatting recommendations. Since Times New Roman was the default for the computer operating system that most people could afford, it must have been the path of least resistance to standardize all document formatting to Microsoft Word’s default font.

Arial grew in popularity both because of its selection as a Microsoft core font and its design as a sans serif. It was, quite simply, the most accessible sans serif font available to most people with computers, and sans serif fonts were growing in popularity with the increase in computer usage. Although Helvetica is the superior sans serif font to many, Microsoft chose Arial in part because the licensing fee for Helvetica was too expensive . For a good 17 years, Arial was the Windows default font for PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook, and so it became the font of choice for everyone’s presentation decks, spreadsheets, and emails.

Helvetica had a slightly different trajectory to stardom, which began much earlier than either Times New Roman or Arial. It was created at a perfect time in history, when post-war modernism was still influencing the arts, architecture, and literature, so the media world was ready for a simple, yet versatile typeface that’s easy to read. Helvetica was designed to adapt to any sort of branding, and became the darling of the advertising world, which is why it is everywhere and even earned itself its own documentary . Compound that with Apple championing it as its default font, and you have a font used heavily in graphic design for corporate logos, editorials, and even transportation signage (it’s the font of choice for the New York City subway and the government of Canada ).

Changing Times, Changing Fonts

Even though these three musketeers have been leading the charge of font usage for decades, times do change, and so do font preferences. A lot of this is also driven by our increasing screen time and a decrease in the usage of print material, which fonts like Times New Roman were created for. Microsoft Word replaced both Times New Roman and Arial as their default fonts in favor of Calibri, a sans serif font, in 2007. According to Joe Friend , the Senior Program Manager at Microsoft whose team pushed for this change, it was a result of growing digital consumption and an effort to modernize. Calibri was also a newer font designed to improve screen readability.

Print books are also rarely printed in Times New Roman. Although it’s a serif font, and serifs are easier on the eyes for long-form reading, it was originally a newspaper font, and as fellow Rioter Ashley Holstrom noted in her piece on the best fonts for books , most book designers prefer fonts such as Garamond, Palatino, and Jenson.

There you have it, friends. May you leave this article with a greater appreciation for fonts, and may you see Helvetica around every corner. (You will. Oh, you will.)

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History corner

Not quite unusual for computer fonts, Times New Roman has been around since before computers became a thing. The British newspaper The Times commissioned it in 1931 as a retro update from a regular 19th-century font to something more solid with a strong 18th-century vibe. Old broom sure knows the corners (or so the saying goes), but you can see how the font may feel outdated in the 2020s.

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It would not be a stretch to say Times New Roman looks ancient, as we already know it was designed this way. Even Roman in the name is a nod to the Italian school of printing from (15th century!). Seeing old-fashioned characters on a groundbreaking visual device, CRT screen, was weird enough. Now that we have modern LCD screens with much higher resolution and fidelity, a font capturing aesthetics from 300 years ago feels crystal odd.

Fonts classification is usually much more objective than old-fashioned or modern . One reason why Times New Roman may give an archaic vibe is that it is a serif font. All letters (or other characters) come with decorative lines, which range from very subtle to indeed something you would see in an 18th-century newspaper. Note how you can’t see any tails on the letters in this article—or almost any website created in the last 10 years.

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Practicality vs Usability

Times New Roman, much like a lot of newspaper fonts, is rather narrow. It is a mostly business decision: you gotta fit in as much text on a page as possible—even during the times (ha-ha!) when the ratio of ads to stories was much lower. At the end of the day, all publications did that and it’s not like many people would’ve changed morning newspapers just because one is a bit easier to read than the rest.

Computers, however, do not have the same limitation. You don’t pay more for publishing an article or sending a document with much more reasonable line spacing and kerning than the average Victorian newspaper. If it’s the intermediary audience (e.g. client that commissioned an article) that needs to save costs, they can always change character size or pick a narrow font themselves.

Furthermore, the mobile boom is not helping narrow fonts like Times New Roman. Most devices connected to the internet now have a vertical layout. Trying to squeeze in extra characters on screens with little horizontal space will bring nothing but frustration for the reader. Interestingly, The Times had to adapt similarly in print: they had to create yet another Times New Roman-inspired typeface after moving from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004. These days, a narrow font is a compromise on usability that you don’t actually have to make—and people would appreciate it if you didn’t.

One could argue that a document in Times New Roman screams laziness or indifference. If the sender didn’t change the default option to something more balanced, it communicates that they either did not want to make your experience better or did not bother to do that. That kind of attitude does not help to secure a job or scholarship.

On the other hand, certain institutions would have you use nothing but Times New Roman. Some universities strongly encourage if not outright mandate the use of Times new Roman for papers, and so do scientific journals. Older government forms coming as templates to be filled out in Word would not play nice if you try to change the font. That being said, such restrictions are getting scarcer, especially with the rise of Mac. The OS and default office-like apps there have a default font different from Times New Roman (and a new one every few years at that).

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Summing up, the cardinal sin of Times New Roman is defaulting to it without consideration. The font is a must in very few scenarios, but you see it much more often than that. Even Microsoft agrees something has to change: the default font for Word has been Calibri since 2007.

Times New Roman alternatives

The above-mentioned Calibri is a spiritual successor to Times New Roman. It is now the default font for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It is a sans serif font (no decorative lines) that looks perfectly fine on both screens and paper.

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If you want to ditch the default and stay sleek, Georgia is a great option. It is a serif font but letter strokes are much more subtle than what you see with Times New Roman. Georgia does not look outdated and works better for vertical screens, as it is not too tight on the horizontal space.

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Should you feel like going barebones, Helvetica is the right font. It is a sans serif font looking as bland as it gets—in a good way. Helvetica lacks elements that would make it look too modern, but it also has no archaic elements that would make the font too classic. I think we can trust Apple on that: they used a spin on Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, as the MacOS system font for two years.

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NEW BEDFORD — A proposal to fine homeowners up to $300 if their grass grows higher than eight inches was mowed down by city councilors.

The proposed ordinance is called, "Duty of property owners to maintain yard and adjacent area."

It would apply to "any adjacent sidewalk grass ribbons," as well as the yard.

It would also apply to weeds and other ground cover that grows higher than eight inches.

Been on the backburner since 2021

It's been on the backburner since 2021 when it was first brought before the council by Mayor Jon Mitchell.

It didn't get any closer to approval in its most recent appearance before the council Committee on Ordinances April 18.

City Solicitor Eric Jaikes made the proposal's latest presentation to the committee.

He hadn't been expecting to make the presentation so he was somewhat scant on details, he said.

"This is essentially an ordinance that creates a fine if a property owner in New Bedford's yard or adjacent area has grass or vegetation of eight inches or higher and the fine is not more than $300 per offense and includes not only the property but the adjacent sidewalk."

He added, "It's essentially designed to make sure that homeowners, property owners take care of their properties so that it looks pleasant."

Several 'significant problems' with proposal

Councilor Linda Morad joked after the brief explanation, "Thank you, Eric, for that elaborate presentation. I appreciate that very much."

On a serious note, she had "several significant problems with the ordinance as written."

It wouldn't affect most New Bedford residents because they do a good job maintaining their property, she said.

But she's come across cases in the past where a resident isn't able to maintain their property for valid reasons. That's one problem.

The fine is also too high, for another.

Proposed ordinance lacks details

And the ordinance doesn't include details, she said, like how much time a person cited has in which to cut the grass before having to pay up.

Councilor Joseph Lopes said a $300 fine to start seemed excessive.

His brother lives in a Pennsylvania municipality that has a similar ordinance, he said.

Lopes said he wasn't endorsing that ordinance, but it did spell out steps.

Notification at first, and then a second visit to judge compliance, he said. After three strikes the municipality cuts the grass and assesses the cost to the homeowner.

First offense doesn't 'require' $300 fine

Jaikes said the ordinance doesn't require a $300 fine for a first offense.

It states that it can be up to $300, he said.

The committee voted 8-1 to refer the proposed ordinance to the full council for no further action.

Ordinance could be retooled for resubmission

The ordinance isn't dead yet.

Councilor Ryan Pereira, who chairs the committee, indicated a willingness to consider a resubmitted version with a full presentation.

Mayor Mitchell and staff are considering what the next step should be regarding the proposed ordinance, said city Public Information Officer Jonathan Darling.

The committee did OK Mayor Mitchell's proposed ordinance to step up fines to problem landlords who rack up multiple inspection violations per year.

The current fine schedule requires 25 separate violations before city inspectors can issue the maximum ticket of $300.

Mitchell's proposal would change the fine structure to reach the maximum $300 penalty after seven violations, starting with a warning and increasing in $50 increments for each violation to reach $300.

That ordinance will now go before the full council for final approval.

1,700-year-old Roman ruins discovered atop much older Neolithic sacred spring

Archaeologists think veneration of the freshwater spring started in Neolithic times.

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Archaeologists in France have unearthed the Roman-era remains of a landscaped pool and wall around a natural freshwater spring; and they think it was built on the ruins of a much older, probably sacred site that may date back 4,500 to 6,000 years, to the Neolithic period.

The Roman ruins are thought to date to the third century, during the Late Empire period, and the artifacts found there include the ceramic face of a deity or Medusa that was placed near the water source. The site also contains ceramic shards and coins from the late Roman Empire , as well as pieces of flint, including a fragment of a dagger, that are thought to have been offered there in Neolithic times.

According to a translated statement from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), the ruins were found near the village of Chamborêt, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of the southwest-central city of Limoges.

The oldest evidence of structures at the site are traces of a dry-stone building with a rectangular plan and postholes and sandpits from at least one other building that was probably made of wood. Although the excavations haven't determined how old these structures are, artifacts found among them suggest the structures were part of an early home and farm, the statement said.

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After that, the site seems to have been abandoned for many centuries. But it was revived in the third century A.D. during the Roman occupation of the region. The archaeologists have found many fragments of bricks and tiles from that time; some show obvious signs of heating, which suggests a fire was maintained in the area.

The source of the freshwater spring itself, which is still active, seems to have been enclosed at that time by a wooden box buried in a pit filled with flat stones. This, in turn, fed a landscaped pool or basin that was surrounded by an arc or wall of granite blocks, which contained ceramic fragments from the third and fourth centuries.

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The Roman-era ruins were built on top of the ancient site. "Water clearly played a major role in the occupation from the earliest times," the researchers said in the statement.

The archaeologists also found many late Roman-era coins and a ceramic fragment that depicts part of a face. It is thought to be that of a deity or Medusa, a motif that  was common in late Roman times and was thought to ward off evil. The ceramic face seems to have been placed above the landscaped basin fed by the spring and may have represented a water deity.

Ancient weapons

Although the Roman-era ruins around the Chamborêt spring are now the most prominent, there are signs that it was frequented by people in much more ancient times, the statement said.

The archaeologists unearthed several pieces of flint at the site, including a fragment of a "Grand Pressigny" dagger, which is named after the Grand-Pressigny archaeological site in central France where several of these Neolithic long blades have been found .

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Around the source of the spring, the team also discovered evidence of a pit, which was probably Neolithic and indicated its use at that time, according to the statement.

Further explorations would enable archaeologists to better understand the site and how it was used at different times in history.

"These installations shed light in an unusual way on the occupation in Late Antiquity," the statement said. "This type of rural site undoubtedly illustrates a stage in the gradual transition to the … early Middle Ages."

Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & Space, and many others.

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LOOK: Renderings for Bears' new lakefront stadium in Chicago

The Chicago Bears unveiled plans for a new lakefront stadium Wednesday during a presentation at Soldier Field.

The Bears will invest $2 billion of what's reportedly a $4.6 billion project, according to the Sun-Times .

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson said the building of a new Bears stadium will "result in no new taxes on the residents of Chicago."

“This is not an easy project, but Chicago doesn’t like it easy," said Bears president/CEO Kevin Warren. "We like to do the difficult things ... the things that resonate with people for generations to come,” Bears President Kevin Warren told a news conference Wednesday afternoon at Soldier Field.

The Bears shared renderings of a state-of-the-art, domed stadium along Chicago's lakefront atop the current South Parking lot of Soldier Field. The renderings feature an all-glass roof, keeping the historic colonnades in place and shares some similarities with Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas) and U.S. Bank Stadium (Minnesota).

Here are the renderings, along with a video, released by the team, via ChicagoBears.com .

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Prosecutors signaled a sweeping case and Donald J. Trump’s lawyers began their assault on witnesses’ credibility. The judge seems intent on expediting the first trial of an American president.

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Monday marked another key moment in the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump: opening statements, during which the former president listened quietly to the prosecution’s allegations of crimes, and the defense’s counterargument that he was a simple man, wrongly accused.

The jury that will decide Mr. Trump’s case concentrated intently on the statements, which began the presentation of what will be weeks of testimony and other evidence, all in a tense courtroom in Lower Manhattan.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee once more, Mr. Trump, 77, is charged with falsifying 34 business records in an attempt to cover up a payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, in the days before the 2016 election. Ms. Daniels, who may testify, says that she and Mr. Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, a claim the former president denies.

Mr. Trump has also denied the 34 felony charges, calling them orchestrated by Democrats; if convicted, the former president could face probation or up to four years in prison.

Here are five takeaways from Mr. Trump’s fifth day on trial:

The prosecution has a big story to tell.

The charges faced by Mr. Trump may sound bland — “falsifying business records” doesn’t really set the heart racing — but the prosecution made clear on Monday that it plans on painting a much broader picture.

Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor, laid out in his opening statement a tale that touched on tabloid journalism , tawdry affairs and covertly recorded phone calls . Jurors will likely be told about events inside fancy hotel rooms, Trump Tower and even the Oval Office. And the stakes? The presidency.

All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take. Indeed, when asked if they wanted paper and pens to take notes, more than half of the people in the jury box (12 jurors and six alternates) raised their hands.

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The defense wants to destroy prosecution witnesses.

Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, used his opening statement to cast Mr. Trump’s actions leading to this case as run-of-the-mill business, and said that Mr. Trump is defending himself at trial, just as “any of us would do.”

He argued that the use of a nondisclosure agreement — the document Ms. Daniels signed after receiving the payment — was typical among the wealthy and the famous and “nothing illegal.” He continued that there was nothing wrong with trying to influence an election, adding: “It’s called democracy.”

Mr. Blanche also attacked Mr. Cohen, a former lawyer and fixer for Mr. Trump. He said Mr. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal campaign finance crimes in 2018, was a “criminal” who “can’t be trusted.” He added that Ms. Daniels was “biased” against Mr. Trump and made a living off her story about the sexual encounter.

He called the heart of the prosecution case just “34 pieces of paper” that don’t involve Mr. Trump.

Trump was muted during the abbreviated day in court.

On Mr. Trump’s way into the courtroom on Monday, he addressed reporters for about three minutes and blasted a range of perceived enemies, including New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the judge in a recent civil fraud case that resulted in a $454 million judgment against him.

But Mr. Trump’s behavior during opening statements reflected that he understood the gravity of the moment.

Mr. Trump made no outbursts during the prosecution’s opening statement, although he occasionally showed displeasure: He shook his head slightly at arguments that he orchestrated a scheme to corrupt the presidential election and then more strenuously when prosecutors said he was guilty of felonies.

During his own side’s opening statement, Mr. Trump sat largely motionless and expressionless watching his lawyer Mr. Blanche. Mr. Trump’s behavior was muted compared with his volatility during past Manhattan court appearances.

But at the conclusion of the trial day, Mr. Trump took his preferred spot in front of a television camera in the hallway, and spoke for more than nine minutes, attacking the prosecutor’s case — once again — as unfair.

David Pecker used to live on celebrity news. Now, he is the news.

Prosecutors’ first witness was David Pecker, the longtime publisher of The National Enquirer . He ambled to the stand and promptly gave a lesson in the ways of tabloid journalism, including the purchasing of articles — anything more than $10,000, he had to approve — and the significance of putting a famous face right out front.

“The only thing that was important is the cover of a magazine,” Mr. Pecker testified.

In about 30 minutes of testimony, Mr. Pecker also laid out trade secrets on sourcing, saying hotel workers and limo drivers could be a font of information on the rich and famous.

He seemed at ease: laughing at a prosecutor’s jokes, and sometimes directly addressing the jury just a few feet away.

We’re moving right along.

Over the past five trial days, the judge overseeing the case, Juan M. Merchan, has shown that he is eager to keep this trial on schedule. He seems serious about keeping his word to the jurors that the trial will last six weeks.

On Monday, truncated by a juror’s dental emergency and the Passover holiday, he decided to start with the first witness — Mr. Pecker — despite having only half an hour left on his schedule.

On Tuesday, the court will first consider a prosecution motion to hold Mr. Trump in contempt over recent comments that they say violated a gag order meant to keep him from attacking participants in the trial and their families.

Then, Mr. Pecker will continue on the stand, probably diving deeper into the “catch-and-kill” scheme used to buy up — and cover up — unflattering stories, a central element of the prosecution’s narrative.

Court will end early again, at 2 p.m., for further observance of Passover and then will have its weekly Wednesday break.

But there is little indication that as the weeks pass, Justice Merchan will let the pace slacken.

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