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The Best 24 Fonts for Modern PowerPoint Presentations [+Guide]

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Presentations are pieces of art. From slide structure to animations, every single detail matters. In this blog post, we will show you the 24 best PowerPoint fonts for all uses. Of course, like everything in design – you might like some and frown at others.

What we can guarantee you is that using this collection of top fonts for PowerPoint will always be a safe bet when you’re in doubt.

Article Overview: 1. How to import a font into your presentation? 2. Great Fonts to Use for your PowerPoint Presentations 3. Great System fonts for PowerPoint Presentations 4. How to design text in PowerPoint?

1. How to import a font into your presentation?

If you don’t know how to import fonts into PowerPoint, it’s important to learn how to do it.

Step 1. Download your fonts

The first step is to select your desired font and download it.

Step 2. Extract the font

Once you’ve downloaded the font, it’s most probably compressed. You need to extract it before installation. If it comes directly as a .otf or .ttf format, there’s no need to unzip.

Step 3. Install the font

Install the font. The process is similar to installing any software, just press “Next” until you see the option “Finish”. If your fonts have been successfully installed, they should appear in the Font library in Windows. To access it, go to your computer, Local Disk (C:)->Windows-> Fonts .

Step 4. Open PowerPoint

Once you open your PowerPoint, the new font should appear among the others.

2. Great Fonts to Use for your PowerPoint Presentations

Fonts are a great way to show some branding skills but also a significant part of your presentation. Of course, we cannot select the best PowerPoint fonts or the best fonts in general, it’s a too subjective matter. But we will try to show you some of the most versatile ones that you will not make a mistake with. Let’s start!

Lato is a very common font that is used in digital forms since it was created for this purpose. It is a sans-serif font that is flexible. One of the most useful things about it is that you can choose between 5 different options for font thickness, giving it extra value when creating PowerPoint presentations.

Recommended title size:  20px

Optimum size for legibility:  18px

Perfect for:  headers and body text

You can combine it with: Roboto, Montserrat, Merriweather

2. Open Sans

Open Sans is another great font that can fit PowerPoint presentations perfectly. Since there is some line spacing, it can be easily readable. If you have large paragraphs that you cannot break down in bullets, it’s your perfect choice. It’s a standard PowerPoint font, so you’ll most probably have it in your font library.

Recommended title size: 28px

Optimum size for legibility:  16px

Perfect for:  body text

You can combine it with: Georgia, Lucida Grande, Publico

Candara is not your everyday font. While you cannot use it in Linux or the web, as it’s proprietary,  it’s accessible in PowerPoint, and what makes it interesting are the curved diagonals, and it’s the curves that give it more “personality”.

Recommended title size: 20px

Optimum size for legibility: 16px

Perfect for: body text

You can combine it with: Calibri, Cambria, Corbel

Specifically designed for Windows 95, Tahoma is a very formal font that can fit business presentations perfectly. It is a very clear and distinctive font which can help avoid confusion, thus it makes it great for formal presentations that need clarity.

Optimum size for legibility: 18px

Perfect for: title headers and body text

You can combine it with:  Georgia, Helvetica Neue, Arial

5. Montserrat

Montserrat is an extremely popular font, as it can be utilized everywhere – from website texts to presentations. Due to its high practicality, you can find it almost anywhere. Well, we need to warn you that you won’t get many “originality” points but you’ll also be “safe” when using it.

Recommended title size: 30px

You can combine it with: Open Sans, Lora, Carla

Whitney is an amazing font that will make your presentation stand out. There are two options – Whitney Condensed and Whitney Narrow. To be honest, Whitney can be used for both headers and body texts (check Discord), but we find it a bit overwhelming for PowerPoint paragraphs.

Recommended title size: 22px

Optimum size for legibility: 15px

Perfect for: title headers

You can combine it with:  Sentinel, Mercury, Gotham

7. Proxima Nova

Proxima Nova is one of the most versatile fonts out there with not 2 but 7 variants! That makes it a viable choice for many purposes and it’s part of the Adobe Fonts collection. The popularity spike is not without a reason, and Proxima Nova certainly won’t disappoint as it is one of the better fonts for PowerPoint.

Recommended title size: 26px

Perfect for: headers and body text

You can combine it with:  Adobe Garamond, Futura, Helvetica Neue

Oswald is a very decent sans-serif typeface and has 3 different versions – light, normal, and bold. It’s an interesting combination of some modern elements combined with classic gothic style, thus it’s perfect for your presentations.

Recommended title size: 18px

You can combine it with: Merriweather, Arial, Roboto

Europa is an amazing font from the Adobe Font Family. It’s a modern geometric sans-serif font that goes well with other fonts from the Adobe family but it can be used in a combination with non-Adobe fonts. It’s up to you.

Recommended title size: 32px

Optimum size for legibility: 20px

Perfect for: headers

You can combine it with:  Adobe Garamond, Chaparral, Kepler

Roboto is one of the most versatile fonts for the web, as it comes with 6 variations. Described as a grotesque sans-serif, it is the default font of Google Maps. Being easy to read makes it great for body texts where scanning is pivotal. While it’s great for small texts, it doesn’t perform that well for titles.

Recommended title size: 38px

Optimum size for legibility: 22px

You can combine it with: Roboto-Slab, Oswald, Abel

Adelle is a slab serif font that is part of the Adobe Family. It’s multipurpose and could work be well utilized and magazines. Its personality and great visibility make it a viable choice on our PowerPoint fonts list. While it can be used for body text too, we prefer to recommend it for headers.

Recommended title size: 36px

You can combine it with: Freight Sans Pro, Proxima Nova, Lucida Grande

14. Lobster

Lobster is a great choice if you want to create some funky text. It’s a great font for posters and headers but ensure you don’t use it much for body text, as it has very poor legibility if written in small letters.

Recommended title size: 58px

Optimum size for legibility: not recommended

You can combine it with: Lato, Open Sans, Muli

Futura is almost a century old but still converts well today! It’s one of the most versatile fonts for PowerPoint in case you download it. Who would suppose a 95-year-old font would still be relevant these days? And you will win points for creativity.

Optimum size for legibility: 17px

You can combine it with: Proxima Nova, New Caledonia, Trade Gothic

Canela is a hybrid font, as it can neither be called serif, nor sans-serif. It’s a very graceful typeface and we find it amazing for title texts. We also loved how it performs in the body from an artistic standpoint. However, we cannot rate it as very suitable for long paragraphs. Still, it can be used in bullets quite well.

You can combine it with: Caslon, Futura, Maison Neue

Aleo is an modern slab serif typeface designed as a “companion” to other popular fonts, like Lato. It has a sleek design but that doesn’t sacrifice readability which matters the most. As it has great clarity, it can be used both as a title text and in the body.

Recommended title size: 25px

Optimum size for legibility: 19px

You can combine it with: Lato, Arimo, Halis Grotesque

18. Poppins

Poppins is a playful sans-serif font that can be used as a main PowerPoint font without any issue. Thanks to its versatility, this PowerPoint font can be used both for title headers and body text, although we prefer the latter.

Recommended title size: 24px

Perfect for: header, body text

You can combine it with: Raleway, Work Sans, New Caledonia

Eras font has 4 weight options in PowerPoint and is absolutely stunning. It won’t be a mistake if we use it as a synonym to “elegance”. It’s slightly italic, thus making it perfect for long paragraphs and web content.

You can combine it with: Garamond, Futura, Helvetica Neue

Lora is a great font that is offered for free by Google. It is a formal font that doesn’t turn its back on art, and as a result, it can be utilized greatly in PowerPoint both as a header and in the body, and it can work perfectly in print, too.

You can combine it with: Lato, Avenir, Montserrat

3. Great System fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

System fonts are a classic choice for PowerPoint presentations as they are a pretty safe bet – you can access them on all types of devices and operating systems. While some of them might not be as beautiful as the previous ones on our list, they will serve you well!

21. Georgia

Georgia is a classic serif font that doesn’t impress with outstanding looks but what makes it a viable choice for PowerPoint presentations is its versatility – you can use it on any type of presentation, as a header or in the body. It’s popular, so you won’t make a mistake using it.

You can combine it with:

22. Times New Roman

Times New Roman was “The Thing” back in time. It was used as a default font for many web browsers and software, thus it was overwhelming. Recently, this serif font has lost its “halo” and is less common but you will never get it wrong if you bring it back to life.

Optimum size for legibility: 12px

You can combine it with: Arial, Gotham, Helvetica Neue

Arial is another well-known name in the web font industry. You can also check this neo-grotesque sans-serif font used in PowerPoint presentations quite often, as it offers a lot of versatility.

You can combine it with: Oswald, Verdana, Georgia

24. Helvetica Neue

Helvetica Neue is the successor of Helvetica which improved legibility and made it more modern. It is one of the most formal fonts that you can use in PowerPoint (and at all). This sans-serif font has 23 different variations in PowerPoint 2022 that you can choose from.

You can combine it with:  Open Sans, Proxima Nova, Adelle

4. How to design text in PowerPoint?

There are certain standards that should be met, in order for your PowerPoint fonts to appear correctly. Let’s see how to order your texts.

1. Make sure the font size is readable

Do you wonder why some websites have HUGE fonts? It’s to ensure their content will be easily scannable. While you don’t have to use a 60px font size for your letters, you should consider making your text more readable.

Pro tip : A simple and straightforward way to achieve this is to try and remove large paragraphs, and replace them with single sentences and bullet points.

2. Make a contrast between the text and background

There is an adopted standard of a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio between text and background for content to be scannable, and 3:1 for large text. There are people who have bad eyesight, and others are color blind.

3. Use white space

White space (or negative space) is crucial for your slide design. It is used to separate different parts of the text, making content more readable. It’s crucial to remember that you should leave some “air” after finishing a main point in the slide.

4. Find the right text balance

One of the best PowerPoint presentation practices is to write between 6-8 lines and use no more than 30-35 words. Also, you should try to balance the text evenly – you cannot write 4 lines, then follow them with 3 lines, and then 1. Typically, writing 2-3 lines per paragraph is considered a good move, then followed by white space.

Final words

Structuring your PowerPoint text is not an easy feat. You need to pick the right PowerPoint fonts, as well as follow some basic instructions to make your slide text more scannable for your audience.

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20 Best PowerPoint Fonts to Make Your Presentation Stand Out in 2024

What makes or kills a first impression during any presentation is your usage of typefaces in the slide design. There are common sins that we should avoid at all costs, but mostly, there are tactics we can learn to feel confident about designing presentation slides for success.

In this article, we shall discuss what makes a quality typeface to use in presentation slides, the difference between fonts and typefaces (two terms mistakenly used interchangeably), and several other notions pertinent to graphic design in an easy-to-approach format for non-designers. At the end, you will have a better idea of which are the best fonts to use for presentations. Let’s get started.

Table of Contents

Font vs. Typeface: What’s the difference?

Serif vs. sans serif, 6 elements you should consider when picking a typeface for presentation design, how to install a font in powerpoint.

• 20 Best PowerPoint Fonts

10 Best PowerPoint Fonts combinations for presentations

Considerations before presenting or printing a slide regarding typefaces, recommended font pairing tools & other resources, closing thoughts.

Most people are familiar with the term font , but what if we tell you it is wrongly used and you intend to say another word? Let’s start by defining each term.

A typeface is a compendium of design elements that set the style of any lettering medium. The misconception comes as the typeface is the set of rules that form a family in style, and the font is the implementation of those rules in practical elements. How so? Well, a font is part of a typeface family and can list variations , i.e., light, regular, bold, heavy, etc. 

Putting it into simpler terms, a font is part of a typeface, and typefaces are set to classes depending on their graphical elements. That categorization stands as:

• Blackletter

Up to this point, you may ask yourself: what is the whole point of the serif? Well, there’s a little bit of story behind it. Back in the old days, when writings were made in stone, engravers added extra glyphs at the end of each letter, as a consequence of the chisel mark. In 1465, with the development of the type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg , the Gothic’s overly-ornamented Blackletter style – used mostly for ecclesiastical purposes – was the go-to typeface to use as it mimicked the formal handwriting style. There was a problem, though, and it arose as such typefaces required lengthy space to produce a book, increasing printing costs. This is where the first pure serif types started to emerge, but readability remained a problem; especially when Renaissance’s calligraphy style didn’t offer an alternative.

These concepts were revised by the 18th century when a pursuit for aesthetics gave birth to newer, slim versions of the serif script. By 1757, John Baskerville introduced what we now know as Transitional typefaces, intended as a refinement to increase legibility. The end of the 18th century saw the inception of modern serif typefaces, which came from the hand of designers Firmin Didot and Giambattista Bodoni. Their work altered the appearance of standard serif typefaces to make the metal engraving process a high-quality process. This is what we now know as the Didone typeface family. 

19th century introduced the slab serifs , also known as Egyptian, which changed communication media as large-scale advertisement quickly adopted this style. In case you wonder if you ever saw this style, remember the large bold letters that newspapers used for headings. The evolution of this typeface style came in 1816, with William Caslon’s “ Caslon Egyptian ” style, or the two-lines style. This is the very first sans serif typeface ever recorded, and its continuity in style or alterations saw a massive process during the 20th century.

It is quite the process that led to what we now know as sans serif typefaces, and such a road was paved for the sake of legibility and style. Nowadays, there’s little doubt about these two typeface families as you can easily identify iconic styles such as “Times New Roman” and clearly differentiate them from sans serif families like “Arial.” In the graphic below, you can appreciate the glyphs that distinctively give the serif typefaces their style.

Moving on to the parts that pique our interest as presenters, you should consider some implicit rules before starting a PowerPoint design. 

Functionality

Let’s be hyper-clear on this point: not every typeface works for your intended purpose. Legibility should be your primal focus, way more than design, as what’s the point of using a cool-looking typeface if no one can get a clue of what’s written? 

Functionality refers to the usage of a typeface at different sizes across a document. Do you ever wonder why you see the same typeface on eye testing boards? Usually is a slab serif, with its sans serif alternative, and the same font is repeated, downscaling its size to test your visual acuity. If, said typeface, had “catchy” glyphs, you would require twice as much time actually to read the type below the average 24pt in a board.

Language support

This is a common, and painful, pitfall many non-English speakers do. They fall in love with a typeface after browsing an English-based website, but whenever they apply it to a personal project, they find they cannot use their average characters. Which characters are those?

• Ø – in Nordic languages.
• Ö – also known as umlaut in German, is commonly used in Turkish, Nordic, and Baltic languages.
• Á – the acute accent used in most Latin-based languages such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French.
• Ô – the circumflex, mostly used by Portuguese-speaking users but also French.
• Ç – the cedilla, used in Portuguese, French, Catalán, and Turkish (the ? character, for example).
• Ã – the tilde, common in Portuguese.

And those are just some examples extracted from the Latin alphabet. The problem even worsens if we intend to use Cyrillic, Greek, Hindi, or other Asiatic alphabets (which don’t fall into Chinese, Japanese, or Korean typical logographic style). For this reason, we emphasize testing the characters you will mostly use throughout a standard written text, just not to come across nasty surprises.

Some font families offer support for multi-language applications across the same alphabet. Others, restrict their compatibility in terms of certain characters (i.e., the acute accent in Spanish), but sometimes, that renders as a distorted character that looks awful at any written copy.

Multiple weights

We want to expose this point by first explaining what weight means for a font family. As previously mentioned, fonts are part of a typeface; they are their implementation in terms of style. Well, fonts include variations within the same specific family style that makes the text look thinner or bolder. That’s known as font weight and can be classified in two ways.

Name classification:

• Thin Italic
• Medium Italic
• Semibold (also known as Demi Bold)
• Semibold Italic
• Bold Italic
• Heavy (also known as Black)
• Heavy Italic

Web designers and graphic designers often use a number-based scale, which is inherited from CSS.

• 100 – Thin
• 200 – Extra Light
• 300 – Light
• 400 – Normal or Regular
• 500 – Medium
• 600 – Semibold
• 700 – Bold
• 800 – Extra Bold
• 900 – Black

Now you know the reason why some places like Google Fonts often show numbers next to the name definition of it.

Not every typeface can be used for any project. Some typefaces can be acquired for a fee through sites like MyFonts.com , but their usage does not allow commercial use. What exactly does this mean?

Let’s say you created a product, and you love the Coca-Cola lettering style. Well, you want to use the Coca-Cola typeface, which is trademarked, as the typeface for your logo. Everything sounds fantastic until your designer warns you that it’s impossible.

Brands that create typefaces for their logos, which is a common practice to deliver the originality factor into the brand, restrict the usage of their intellectual property for commercial use as they don’t want to be associated with the wrong kind of message. Okay then, what happens when a kid uses those typefaces on a school project? This writer sincerely doubts a company shall put their legal team to prosecute a student; most likely, they feel it is part of their brand awareness and cultural influence. That same argument won’t be used if a particular is intending to use the typeface to make a profit with a non-branded product, and you will be legally requested to ditch the design altogether. 

Therefore, before opting for a typeface, don’t fall prey to using a fancy, trademarked, typeface. 

The unknown-typeface strikes again

This is another common pitfall if you attend multiple presentations or if you work in the printing business. How often does a user feel annoyed that the presentation “looked different” at home? Fonts are the culprit for this.

Whenever you work on a presentation using local-based software, like PowerPoint, the typefaces you pick are the ones installed on your computer. Therefore, if you change devices, the typefaces won’t be available. We will retake this topic later, but consider always working with well-known typefaces available on any computer rather than innovation.

Sins of type

Finally, we want to conclude this section with the vices you should avoid at all costs whenever working with type in presentations. 

• Using multiple typefaces on the same document: As a rule, don’t use more than 3 typefaces across your presentation slides design. Increasing the number of typefaces won’t make it more appealing; quite the opposite, and you should be mindful that if your images contain text, they have to match the existing typefaces in the presentation. 
• DO NOT use Comic Sans: By all means, do yourself a favor. There are multiple reasons why designers feel like having a stroke whenever Comic Sans enters the scene, but if you want a straightforward reason why, it makes your work look childish, unprofessional, and unfit for its purpose.
• Script fonts for the body of text : Legible typefaces are required in long text areas to make the reader feel comfortable. Script fonts are not intended for readability but for design purposes. If your text is long, work with serif or sans serif typefaces (slab serif won’t do good as well).
• Excess tracking : Tracking refers in typography to the space between words, and the perfect way to point this out is by referring to the Justify paragraph alienation, which often leaves heavy white areas between words. Excess tracking makes the text look boring and hard to read.

Installing a font in PowerPoint doesn’t mean installing it as a third-party plugin; you must install the font family into the operating system (OS). 

Installing a font in Windows

Method 1 – Via Contextual Menu

• Download your desired font family. Extract the zip file you obtain.
• Right-click the font files you obtain from the zip (they can be in OpenType or TrueType format). Click on Install on the contextual menu. 
• You will be prompted to give admin rights to make changes to your computer. If you trust the source, then click yes. 

Method 2 – Via C: Drive

• Open a new File Explorer window. Search this path: C:\Windows\Fonts. That’s where fonts are stored in any Windows OS. 
• Copy the files from your extracted zip file or folder containing fonts.
• Paste the fonts by right-clicking inside the Fonts folder, then click Paste .

Relaunch the opened applications to see the effects of installing a font.

Installing a font on Mac

Mac OS requires a different procedure for installing fonts. First, access the Font Book app. 

After launching Font Book, go to File > Add Fonts to Current User . Double-click the font file. 

The Font Book app validates the integrity of the font file and if there are duplicate fonts. For more detailed instructions and troubleshooting on Mac font install procedures, check this guide by Apple .

20 Best Fonts for PowerPoint

Now it’s time to explore what you’ve been looking for: the best fonts for PowerPoint! This is a list of typefaces intended for multiple uses in slides, and it will certainly boost your PowerPoint design ideas for the greater.

#1 – Tahoma Font

This typeface is typically used in PowerPoint slides, emails, Word documents, and more. It resembles Verdana but with a smaller kerning (distance between characters). Due to that, it feels slimmer, professional and works perfectly on multiple devices. This is one of the best fonts for presentation that you can consider to use.

Recommended font pairing: Georgia, Brandon Grotesque, Helvetica Neue, Palatino, Arial.

#2 – Verdana Font

Verdana is a sans serif classic commonly used for citations, disclaimers, and academic documents. It is available on both Windows and Mac as a pre-installed font, which would solve your problems if you have to deliver presentations on multiple devices (which may not be yours).

Recommended font pairing: Arial, Lucida Grande, Futura, Georgia.

#3 – Roboto

Another delicate sans serif font that is ideal for text bodies. It is rated among the best fonts for PowerPoint readability and presentations, so you can easily pair it with more prominent font families. You may recognize this typeface as it is the default Google Maps uses.

Recommended font pairing: Oswald, Gill Sans, Garamond, Open Sans, Teko, Crimson Text.

#4 – Rockwell

Including visually attractive elements is crucial when looking for the best fonts for presentations, so why not combine a professional style with a slab serif typeface like Rockwell?

It is ideal for headings, especially if used in its bold font weight and paired with a sans serif for the body.

Recommended font pairing: Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans, Futura, DIN Mittelschrift.

#5 – Open Sans

This is easily one of the most versatile sans-serif fonts you can find! It is commonly used in presentation slides as both heading and body, varying font-weight, but you can also create powerful combinations with different typefaces.

Recommended font pairing: Roboto, Brandon Grotesque, Montserrat, Oswald, Lora, Raleway.

#6 – Lato

A typeface intended for digital mediums, one of its biggest advantages is its wide range of font weights – much like Open Sans. It is ideal for headings in minimalistic-themed presentations, but it can work perfectly as body text if paired with a serif font or a script one.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Oswald, Roboto, Merriweather.

#7 – Futura

This sans serif typeface was designed by Paul Renner in 1927 and remains a preferred choice of designers thanks to its clean aspect with pure geometric shapes. It has inspiration from the Bauhaus in terms of styling, so any presenter that loves modern style will find in this typeface a loyal companion.

Recommended font pairing: Playfair Display, Lato, Book Antiqua, Helvetica, Open Sans.

#8 – Book Antiqua

A typeface widely used in the first years of the 2000s, its graphical elements are inspired by Renaissance’s handwritten style. Created in 1991 by The Monotype Corporation, it is known as a classic in design projects and won’t run out of fashion any time soon. Its italic variation is considered one of the most beautiful italic serif fonts.

Recommended font pairing: Myriad Pro, Baskerville, Georgia, Futura, Vladimir Script.

#9 – Bebas Neue

This typeface is strictly intended for headings or for body copy that doesn’t mind the usage of caps. The reason is that this typeface is entirely made of caps. It has no lowercase characters, but its slender shape and tight kerning have made it a popular choice among well-known designers like Chris Do. One creative usage of this typeface is to use it in outline format.

Recommended font pairing: Avenir, Montserrat, DIN Mittelschrift, Roboto.

#10 – Lora

This serif typeface can be used both in PowerPoint and Google Slides, as it is a free typeface offered by Google. Works perfectly for formal-styled headings, but it can adapt for text body as long as it remains a minimum of 15pt in size. It is an ideal option to pair with free PowerPoint presentation templates.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Open Sans, Poppins, Avenir.

#11 – Montserrat

You most likely came across Montserrat at some point in your life, since it is an extremely popular choice among designers for presentations and packaging. Due to this, you won’t spark innovation but rather remain on the safe side for font pairings – which is ideal for corporate styling.

Recommended font pairing: Lora, Open Sans, Merriweather, Oswald, Georgia, Roboto.

#12 – Bentham

Another elegant serif font used for formal occasions, like wedding invitations, headings, or product descriptions. Its kerning makes it readable, unlike many other serif fonts, which is one of the reasons why you can work with this font for the body if you opt for a sans serif in the headings. 

Recommended font pairing: Futura, Open Sans, Lato, Raleway.

#13 – Dosis

It is a simple, monoline sans serif typeface, which works perfectly in its extra light and light font weights to make a drastic contrast with a bold sans serif typeface. Ideally, work with this typeface for subheadings.

Recommended font pairing: Lato, Montserrat, Roboto, Oswald, Raleway.

#14 – Baskerville

You can come across this serif typeface in the form of Libre-Baskerville, a free serif typeface offered by Google. It is ideal for headings, thanks to its traditional style closely resembling the original Baskerville typeface, so it is ideal to stick to it in uppercase mode.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Poppins, Lucida Grande, Helvetica Neue, Open Sans.

#15 – Poppins

This sans serif typeface breaks with the formal style of families like Verdana and Open Sans, introducing some graphical cues that make it adept for more relaxed situations. Therefore, it is ideal to use in team meetings, product presentations, or non-business presentations as long as it remains for title headers.

Recommended font pairing: Raleway, Garamond, Merriweather, Droid Serif. 

#16 – Zenith Script

EnvatoElements is a great marketplace for typefaces; among the options, we can find this brush-style script typeface. Zenith Script is a powerful option to come up with creative title designs for non-corporate meetings, as long as the title remains short. It can also work for branding purposes, and certainly, you can use it as an asset if you are looking for how to start a presentation .

Recommended font pairing: Any sans serif font in uppercase format, with increased kerning. Options can be Open Sans, Bebas Neue (modified), Roboto, and Futura.

#17 – Amnesty

The second option we consider among script typefaces. Amnesty has that dramatic effect that resembles rusting handwriting from the old days. It is ideal for presentations that have to convey a strong emotional factor, like product releases for fashion brands, and we recommend limiting its usage to short titles, always paired with sans serif typefaces.

Recommended font pairing: As it is a custom-made font, we recommend pairing it with its Amnesty Sans listed in the product file.

#18 – Bodoni

This typeface dates all the way back to 1798 and is considered a transitional font type. Its name comes from Giambattista Bodoni, designer, and author of this typeface, whose work was heavily influenced by John Baskerville. As a didone typeface, you find elegant traces that instantly give the feel of a fashion magazine heading, and it is no coincidence that this was the selected typeface for the title of Dante Alighieri’s La Vita Nuova re-print in 1925 .

Recommended font pairing: Brandon Grotesque, Gill Sans, Playfair Display, Raleway, Courier.

#19 – Avant Garde

If you are looking for good presentation fonts, this geometric sans serif is the answer to your question. This typeface is based on the Avant Garde magazine logo and remains one of the most popular condensed sans serif options. Many brands use Avant Gard these days as part of their branding identity, such as Macy’s (lowercase usage), the Scottish rock band Travis, RE/MAX, among others.

Recommended font pairing: Helvetica Neue, Sentinel, Garamond, Neuzeit Grotesk.

#20 – DIN Mittelschrift

Our final typeface in this list is the DIN 1451 sans serif typeface, widely used in traffic signage and administrative/technical applications. Its denomination, Mittelschrift, comes from the German word for medium, which refers to the font weight. You can find it in Engschrift , which stands for condensed. 

Recommended font pairing: Open Sans, Didot, Helvetica Neue, Lucida Grande.

Keep in mind that if you are looking for a proper way how to end a presentation , working with graphics is much better than sticking with type, as you show extra care for the final element in your slide deck. 

Open Sans + Roboto

Didot + DIN Mittelschrift

Bodoni + Gill Sans

Rockwell + Bembo

Bebas Neue + Montserrat Light

Helvetica Neue + Garamond

Oswald + Lato

Baskerville + Montserrat

Lora + Poppins

Book Antiqua + Myriad Pro

Before concluding the technical aspects of this article on best presentation fonts, we want to mention some key elements that you should consider before delivering a presentation or printing it for physical format.

Working with accurate text si zing in presentations can make a difference in how the slides are perceived by the audience. First, let’s make one very valid clarification: a Point (pt, unit used in PowerPoint and other word processing software) equals 1.333 pixels, or we can say a pixel is 0.75 pt.

You can find multiple resources and rules on font sizing intended for web designers, so let’s resume the primary points here:

• Body text should remain 12 to 14pt for legibility. If the presentation is shown from afar, increase body size to 16pt.
• The ratio for headings and titles is twice as big as the body text.
• Subheadings should be between 3-4 pt smaller than headings to make a valid contrast but not compete with the body text.
• Keep an eye on leading , the space between lines of text. Double spacing makes it hard to read in most situations, so avoid it for the text body. 

Getting slides ready for print format

Remember what we mentioned above about not having your fonts installed on the computer? Well, this inconvenience can be easily solved by rastering type before leaving your home or exporting your presentation file. PowerPoint doesn’t offer a native option to do this, so if your presentation has sections that are bound to suffer from font issues, work with them as images, which can be exported from Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator. It is just like working with PowerPoint shapes , but you remain on the safe side of font compatibility issues. 

Word of advice : keep an editable copy instead of just the rastered version.

Color contrast and color testing

Accessibility is the number #1 rule to remember when working with text, as it enhances the performance of your visual communication tactics. In general, don’t work with pure white or pure black colors, since it induces eye strain whenever a spectator has to read your slides for a long while. You can work with color contrast resources such as WebAIM’s Contrast Checker .

If your presentation slides are going to be handed out in deliverable format, be sure to perform a color test before you bulk print the slides. Some colors can be misleading, especially in the conversion from RGB to CMYK color spaces. Also, some light grays may not be accurately printed if done with an inkjet printer. Take some extra time to ensure this process is done right, and avoid last-minute costly frustrations. 

If you need to purchase typefaces, opt for trustworthy marketplaces. Sites like MyFont.com offer an immense collection of font families available for you, plus extra services like WhatTheFont , their AI-based typeface recognition software, which allows you to scan and detect typefaces from documents, images, and more. It is extremely useful if you are looking for a typeface but cannot remember its name.

Alternatives: Fonts.com | Adobe Fonts | Google Fonts

Fontjoy.com

For those who seek to explore creative font pairing schemes, Fontjoy is the site to visit. It is a simple layout, in which you select the font for the Title, Subheading, and Body. You can randomly generate combinations based on the contrast between typeface styles, or start with a typeface you had in mind for one section – lock it – and click on the generate button. 

Keep in mind it has a limited number of typefaces, some of which we mentioned here may not be available.

Alternatives: fontpairings.com

When looking for inspiration to create visually attractive font pairings, Typ.io is a website intended for web font inspiration, meaning to guide designers with different font schemes by looking at the font’s name. 

You can look at some projects in detail, with their CSS code written for you, so you can analyze the font weight used or particular style details.

Typewar.com

Want to have fun while learning about font pairing? Well, an important part of that process is to learn by heart the most used typefaces. Typewar is a website that offers a quiz showing different characters in multiple typefaces, with the input to choose between two font families. It is ideal to practice classic typefaces, and you will increase your knowledge in design by a great deal if you practice 10 minutes a day.

Typescale.com

One crucial aspect of working with text is knowing how to scale it properly. Since readability is critical, you should know when and where to use each font size. Typescale is a website that is intended for web designers and can help convert typefaces from pixels to rem . How is this useful for presenters? Well, since we won’t dwell in pixels and other units besides points (pt), this tool is ideal to tell if a text is legible from distance at the current size you assigned, or whether you should upscale or downscale the body text to make a better contrast with the headings. 

Finally, we conclude this section by introducing Coolors , a palette generator tool that helps designers come up with beautiful color schemes for their work. As we discussed in our color theory for presentations article, it is important to keep an eye on the colors we manage as they contribute to the psychological impact the presentation has on the audience.

Get used to generating creative PowerPoint color palettes for each presentation to make them unique, or help your brand to tailor cooperative slides to the appropriate PowerPoint theme that matches the company’s logo. 

As you can see, getting ready to make a presentation isn’t just an easy feat that can be accomplished in minutes if you aim for custom-made solutions rather than sticking to PowerPoint templates . Increasing your knowledge of font pairing and its proper usage will certainly boost your performance as a presenter, making you less prone to a design faux-pas that diverts the attention from your content.

We recommend you to visit our tutorials on how to add fonts to PowerPoint and how to add fonts to Google Slides . We hope this guide brings light to a complex topic like working with design decisions in presentations and see you next time.

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25 Best Fonts for Powerpoint to Elevate Your Presentations

• January 22, 2024

• Written by a professional

Summary: In today’s article, I selected 25 amazing Microsoft fonts that are simply perfect for Powerpoint presentations. My top three favorites are:

• Impact : It helps emphasize key points by its bold and attention-grabbing nature.
• Goudy Old Style : It offers a balanced and readable choice for conveying information.
• Century Gothic : Its clean style is versatile, it does help maintain a professional look.

When it comes to selecting fonts for PowerPoint presentations, I understand the importance of making the right choice to enhance the overall look and effectiveness of slides. Choosing the right font is crucial & this article highlights the best fonts that combine readability with professional style, ensuring your slides make a lasting impression. Whether you're presenting in a corporate meeting or a creative showcase, these fonts will enhance your message and keep your audience engaged. Let's explore my top picks & move your next presentation on new level.

TOP 25 best fonts for PowerPoint

• Goudy Old Style
• Century Gothic
• Baskerville Old Face
• The Serif Hand
• Cooper Black
• Gill Sans Nova
• Alasassy Caps
• Avenir Next LT Pro
• Century Schoolbook
• Georgia Pro
• Verdana Pro
• Vivaldi Italic
• Chamberi Super Display Regular
• Mystical Woods Smooth Script
• Tisa Offc Serif Pro
• Britannic Bold
• Baguet Script Regular
• Modern No. 20
• Modern Love Caps

• About Impact: Impact, with its bold and condensed style, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations needing striking headlines or attention-grabbing titles.

2. Goudy Old Style

• About Goudy Old Style: Goudy Old Style offers an elegant, traditional touch to PowerPoint presentations, perfect for formal or historical topics.

3. Century Gothic

• About Century Gothic: Century Gothic, known for its clean, sans-serif design, is suitable for modern and minimalistic PowerPoint presentations requiring readability.

4. Baskerville Old Face

• About Baskerville Old Face: Baskerville Old Face adds a touch of classic sophistication to PowerPoint presentations, ideal for literature or history-themed slides.

5. The Serif Hand

• About The Serif Hand: The Serif Hand, with its handwritten appearance, is great for informal or creative PowerPoint presentations that aim for a personal touch.

6. Cooper Black

• About Cooper Black: Cooper Black, with its rounded, bold letters, is excellent for casual or playful PowerPoint presentations needing a friendly tone.

7. Gill Sans Nova

• About Gill Sans Nova: Gill Sans Nova, a refined sans-serif font, is versatile for both professional and casual PowerPoint presentations, offering clarity and elegance.

8. Alasassy Caps

• About Alasassy Caps: Alasassy Caps, characterized by its stylish uppercase letters, is suitable for decorative titles in modern or fashion-themed PowerPoint presentations.

9. Avenir Next LT Pro

• About Avenir Next LT Pro: Avenir Next LT Pro, known for its sleek and professional look, is ideal for business or technology-themed PowerPoint presentations.

10. Century Schoolbook

• About Century Schoolbook: Century Schoolbook, with its legible and formal style, is perfect for educational or academic PowerPoint presentations.

11. Georgia Pro

• About Georgia Pro: Georgia Pro, a serif font, offers excellent readability and a professional look, suitable for varied PowerPoint presentation topics.

12. Verdana Pro

• About Verdana Pro: Verdana Pro, designed for high readability on screens, is a great choice for text-heavy PowerPoint presentations.

13. Vivaldi Italic

• About Vivaldi Italic: Vivaldi Italic, with its elegant and flowing script, is ideal for artistic or decorative titles in PowerPoint presentations.

14. Chamberi Super Display Regular

• About Chamberi Super Display Regular: This font, known for its sophisticated and impactful style, is perfect for headlines in modern PowerPoint presentations.

15. Garamond

• About Garamond: Garamond, a classic and timeless serif font, is suitable for formal and sophisticated PowerPoint presentations.

16. Broadway

• About Broadway: Broadway, with its art deco style, is excellent for PowerPoint presentations that require a touch of retro glamour.

17. Tw Cen MT

• About Tw Cen MT: Tw Cen MT offers a sleek, geometric appearance, making it suitable for contemporary and business-oriented PowerPoint presentations.

18. Gungsuh

• About Gungsuh : Gungsuh, a Korean font, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations that require an Asian aesthetic or for presentations in Korean language.

19. Mystical Woods Smooth Script

• About Mystical Woods Smooth Script: With its flowing and decorative style, this font is perfect for creative or fantasy-themed PowerPoint presentations.

20. Tisa Offc Serif Pro

• About Tisa Offc Serif Pro: Tisa Offc Serif Pro, known for its readability and elegance, is a versatile choice for a range of PowerPoint presentation themes.

21. Britannic Bold

• About Britannic Bold: Britannic Bold, with its strong and assertive style, is great for headlines in business or educational PowerPoint presentations.

22. Rockwell

• About Rockwell: Rockwell, known for its slab-serif and sturdy appearance, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations requiring a robust and solid feel.

23. Baguet Script Regular

• About Baguet Script Regular: Baguet Script Regular, with its handwritten, cursive style, adds a personal and artistic touch to PowerPoint presentations.

24. Modern No. 20

• About Modern No. 20: Modern No. 20, featuring a sleek and elegant design, is suitable for formal and contemporary PowerPoint presentations.

25. Modern Love Caps

• About: Modern Love Caps, with its playful and bold hand-drawn lettering, is best suited for engaging PowerPoint presentations that aim to convey creativity and uniqueness.

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How to choose the best fonts for PowerPoint?

• Readability : Prioritize fonts that are easy to read, even from a distance. Steer clear of overly ornate or decorative fonts that may hinder comprehension.
• Consistency : Maintain font consistency throughout your presentation. Stick to two or three fonts at most to create a cohesive and professional look.
• Audience and Purpose : Consider your audience and the purpose of your presentation. Formal presentations may call for classic, serif fonts, while creative or informal presentations can benefit from more playful, sans-serif fonts.
• Contrast : Use font contrast to your advantage. Pair a bold font for headers with a more straightforward font for body text to create visual interest and hierarchy.
• Testing : Experiment with different fonts in your PowerPoint design. Test them on sample slides to see how they look in context, both in terms of style and legibility, before finalizing your choices.

What are PowerPoint fonts usually used for?

• Readability and Clarity : Fonts in PowerPoint are primarily used to ensure the text on slides is clear and easily readable, facilitating the communication of information and ideas.
• Visual Hierarchy : Fonts help establish a visual hierarchy in presentations. Different font styles, sizes, and weights distinguish headings, subheadings, and body text, guiding the audience's attention.
• Tone and Style : Fonts play a vital role in conveying the tone and style of the presentation. They can communicate formality, creativity, professionalism, or informality, depending on your choice.
• Branding and Consistency : Fonts contribute to maintaining branding consistency in presentations. Organizations often have specific fonts associated with their identity, which can be used to reinforce brand recognition.
• Visual Appeal and Impact : Fonts can be creatively employed to add visual interest and personality to slides. Unique or stylized fonts can be used for emphasis, thematic alignment, or to engage the audience's visual senses.

In conclusion, this exploration of the 25 best fonts for PowerPoint reveals a versatile range of typographic choices to enhance your presentations. Among them, three fonts shine – Impact , ideal for bold headings and capturing attention; Goudy Old Style , a timeless choice for balanced and readable body text; and Century Gothic , offering a clean and modern design to maintain professionalism. Like a painter's palette, these fonts empower you to craft impactful messages that resonate with your audience, whether you're delivering a corporate report or a captivating sales pitch, ensuring your words leave a lasting impression with a touch of sophistication and contemporary flair.

Hana Terber

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Any marketer will tell you the importance of branding in design. Branding extends from color choices to fonts, and encompasses everything in between. To create familiarity and trust with prospective clients and customers, designs should be consistent across all website pages, marketing materials, and sales collateral. This means that your company’s homepage, emails, social media graphics, and even presentations should all reflect your brand in the same way. 

Beautiful.ai makes it easy to employ your branding and stay consistent from pitch to pitch. Simply create a custom theme complete with your company colors, fonts, and logos— then set it and forget it. Your theme will automatically be applied to your presentation deck so every slide is cohesive and on-brand. Gone are the days of having to manually tinker with fonts and colors for every new slide you add (who has time for that, anyway?). You can use our best presentation fonts, or upload your own, to match your brand standards.

Fonts are more important than you might think. For starters, it can be the difference between a legible presentation and one that your audience is having to squint to follow along with. But it’s more than that. Typefaces can evoke different emotions just like colors do . Is your font cheeky and fun, or serious and professional? The fonts you choose for your presentation can impact how it is received by your audience. 

Deciding which are the best presentation fonts for your company will vary depending on your industry, offerings, and overarching brand message. Your fonts in any client-facing deck should reflect one of two things; 1) your company’s branding, and/or 2) the story you’re trying to convey.

What are the best fonts for powerpoint— or Beautiful.ai— to encourage a successful outcome? 

Six good presentation fonts for your brand to explore

In this blog we share six good presentation fonts that can take your deck to the next level and wow your audience. 

Roboto is a versatile font with different purposes. The style is both geometric while featuring bubbly and open curves. It maintains each letter’s natural width, making it much easier to read and comprehend. A good option for bulleted points or text-heavy decks. 

Poppins typeface is geometric and clean, and includes over 15 different font weights. Ranging from thin to black, the font's openness is great for both presentation headlines and body copy. Poppins can be pretty understated or have a lot of personality depending on context and font weight.

Trocchi comes from a long line of old facetypes from the English typecutter Vincent Figgins. Its variation on the earlier designs offers a more casual slab serif. Trocchi is commonly used for both text and display type, which makes it a versatile font for headlines and body text in your presentation. 

Jost is a good free alternative to Futura, which is a classic. While inspired by the traditional sans serif, Jost is a trendy font for the digital era. It’s a good option for making your presentation appear more modern, without being too cheeky or casual. 

Montserrat is a geometric sans-serif typeface that was inspired by old posters and signs in the Montserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Julieta Ulanovsky designed this font to restore the uniqueness of urban typography from the early twentieth century. It boasts more personality than helvetica and arial, but is still simplistic in its own right. 

Glodok is a single-weight display font. It is known for its bold, heavy style and can be fun to play around with in a presentation title or headline. Glodok is eye-catching, but not over the top so you can make a statement without compromising professional design. It’s a retro-inspired typeface that has a nice balance between structured and playful. 

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10 Best fonts to use in your next PowerPoint presentation

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

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.

‘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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Curious to know which fonts can transform your presentation from ordinary to extraordinary? There are many fonts capable of doing that but you need to choose the best font type for your presentation . So let’s get started:

10 Best Fonts for Presentations

Garamond, a classic serif font, is renowned for its timeless elegance and readability. With refined serifs and a well-balanced design, Garamond imparts a sense of sophistication to presentations. This font is an excellent choice when you want to convey a traditional and professional tone, creating a visually appealing and polished look for your slides.

Palatino, a classic serif font, exudes sophistication and readability. Its well-defined serifs and balanced letterforms contribute to an elegant and timeless aesthetic. Palatino is an excellent choice for presentations where a touch of traditional style and formality is desired, enhancing the visual appeal of your slides.

Proxima Nova:

Proxima Nova is a modern sans-serif font celebrated for its clean and versatile design. With a harmonious balance between rounded and straight letterforms, Proxima Nova presents a contemporary and professional appearance. Its adaptability makes it suitable for a wide range of presentation themes, ensuring a sleek and polished visual impression.

Segoe, a sans-serif font developed by Microsoft, is known for its clean and modern look. With rounded letterforms and balanced proportions, Segoe offers a friendly and approachable aesthetic, making it ideal for professional presentations. Its versatility and legibility across various screen sizes contribute to a seamless visual experience.

Corbel, another Microsoft font, is a clean and straightforward sans-serif typeface. With its minimalistic design and even spacing, Corbel ensures clarity and readability in presentations. Its modern appearance adds a touch of professionalism, making it a reliable choice for a clean and contemporary visual style.

Rockwell, a slab serif font, brings a bold and robust presence to presentations . With its thick and distinctive serifs, Rockwell conveys a sense of strength and impact. This font is an excellent choice when you want to emphasize key points and create a memorable visual impact in your slides.

Bentham, a serif font with classical influences, adds a touch of historical elegance to presentations. Its well-defined serifs and balanced letterforms create a refined and sophisticated look. Bentham is a suitable choice when you want to infuse your slides with a sense of tradition and formality.

Fonseca is a contemporary sans-serif font with a geometric influence. Its clean lines, rounded shapes, and generous spacing create a modern and friendly appearance. Fonseca is a versatile choice that brings a sense of freshness and simplicity to your presentation, ensuring both style and readability.

Bell MT, a classic serif font, is characterized by its timeless elegance and refined details. With well-crafted serifs and balanced letterforms, Bell MT adds a touch of sophistication to presentations. This font is an excellent choice when you want to convey a sense of tradition and professionalism.

Tahoma, a sans-serif font designed for on-screen legibility, combines clarity with a modern look. Its sturdy letterforms and even spacing enhance readability, making Tahoma a practical choice for presentations. The font’s neutrality ensures that your content remains accessible and easy to follow.

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Raleway is a modern sans-serif font known for its clean and elegant appearance. With its thin, sleek lines, it exudes a contemporary and professional vibe, making it ideal for presentations. The minimalistic design ensures clarity and readability, enhancing the visual appeal of your slides.

Lato is a versatile sans-serif font recognized for its friendly and approachable style. Its balanced letterforms and open spacing contribute to easy readability, even in small font sizes. Lato’s warmth adds a touch of friendliness to your presentation while maintaining a professional and polished look.

Calibri, a default font in Microsoft Office, is widely chosen for presentations due to its clear and straightforward design. Its rounded shapes and moderate spacing result in a friendly yet professional aesthetic. Calibri is a safe and practical choice, ensuring that your content remains easily accessible to a broad audience.

Verdana is a sans-serif font designed for on-screen readability. Its bold and simple letterforms make it an excellent choice for presentations, especially when projected. The generous spacing between characters enhances legibility, ensuring that your audience can effortlessly follow your content, even from a distance.

Georgia, a serif font, brings a touch of sophistication to presentations. Its robust letterforms and distinct serifs make it suitable for conveying a classic and formal tone. Georgia is an excellent choice when you want to add a bit of traditional elegance to your slides while maintaining readability.

Poppins is a contemporary sans-serif font with a geometric feel. Its rounded letterforms and ample spacing create a friendly and modern look, making it well-suited for a variety of presentation styles. Poppins add a touch of personality to your slides while ensuring clarity and visual appeal.

Coolvetica:

Coolvetica is a stylish and edgy sans-serif font that injects a sense of creativity into your presentations. With its bold letterforms and unique character shapes, Coolvetica is perfect for conveying a modern and unconventional vibe. It’s an excellent choice when you want your presentation to stand out with a touch of artistic flair.

Roboto, designed for Google, is a versatile sans-serif font that combines neutrality with modern aesthetics. Its clean lines and balanced proportions contribute to a professional and contemporary look, making it suitable for a wide range of presentation topics. Roboto excels in delivering a clean and polished visual impression to your audience.

Helvetica is a versatile sans-serif font known for its clean and modern design. Its neutral and balanced letterforms make it a timeless choice for presentations across various themes. Helvetica provides a professional and straightforward appearance, ensuring clarity and readability in your slides. Its simplicity allows for easy integration into a wide range of design styles.

Avenir, a contemporary sans-serif font, combines elegance with modernity. With its rounded letterforms and well-proportioned design, Avenir offers a sophisticated and approachable look for presentations. The font’s versatility allows it to adapt seamlessly to different visual styles, making it a popular choice for creating polished and professional slides with a touch of modern flair.

Factors to Consider When Choosing Fonts

Clear legibility:.

Ensure your chosen fonts are easy on the eyes. Opt for clear, readable typefaces to prevent any visual hiccups, allowing your content to be effortlessly absorbed by your audience.

Visual Consistency:

Stick to a consistent font style throughout your slides. Choosing a clear distinction between titles and body text maintains a visual uniformity that guides your audience smoothly through your presentation.

Strategic Contrast:

Create visual interest by smartly pairing fonts. Use bold, attention-grabbing typefaces for headers, complemented by more subtle, easy-to-read fonts for the body. Striking the right balance adds a touch of sophistication without overwhelming your audience.

Brand Alignment:

Align your fonts with your brand identity. Consistent use of brand-appropriate typefaces reinforces a professional image and helps with brand recognition, ensuring your presentation resonates with authenticity.

Universal Accessibility:

Prioritize fonts that enhance accessibility for all. Choose designs that are clear and legible, considering factors like color contrast and font size to ensure inclusivity across various devices and audiences.

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint

Step 1: download the custom font.

• Visit a reputable website offering a range of custom fonts, both free and paid.
• Explore the font collection and pick the ones that suit your preferences.
• Download the font files in a compatible format, such as .TTF or .OTF.

Step 2: Incorporate the Custom Font

Both Mac and Windows have different ways of incorporating fonts, let’s see both of the ways:

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint For Windows:

a. Extract the font files from any compressed folders, such as .zip.

b. Right-click on each font file and choose “Install.”

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint For Mac:

a. Launch Font Book, the default font management application on macOS.

b. Drag and drop the font files into the Font Book window.

c. The fonts will automatically install, becoming accessible in PowerPoint.

Step 3: Reboot PowerPoint

Close and reopen PowerPoint to ensure the newly installed fonts are recognized and ready for use.

Step 4: Implement Custom Fonts in PowerPoint

• Open the PowerPoint presentation where you wish to employ the custom fonts.
• Select the text box or text element you want to format.
• Navigate to the “Home” tab on the PowerPoint ribbon, and locate the “Font” section.
• Click on the drop-down menu for “Font” and opt for the custom font you want to apply.

You will be done with installing the custom font in PowerPoint.

Frequently Asked Questions:

The best font for presentations is often considered to be a sans-serif font like Arial or Helvetica. These fonts are clean, easy to read, and work well on slides, ensuring clarity and professionalism.

A good font combination for a presentation involves pairing a sans-serif font for titles and headers with a serif font for body text. For example, pairing Arial with Times New Roman can create a visually appealing and balanced look, enhancing readability and engagement.

The best fonts for PowerPoint 2023 are Raleway, Lato, Calibri, and Verdana. These fonts are standard choices, providing a modern and clean aesthetic for your slides.

The font in a presentation matters significantly as it affects readability and audience engagement. Choosing a clear and professional font ensures that your message is conveyed effectively without distractions, helping to maintain the audience’s focus on the content.

Some popular newspaper fonts include Times New Roman, Georgia, and Garamond. These fonts are classic, legible, and convey a sense of tradition, making them well-suited for the printed page.

Professional fonts often include Arial, Helvetica, Calibri, and Garamond. These fonts are widely accepted in business and academic settings for their clarity, readability, and timeless appeal, making them suitable for a variety of documents, presentations, and other professional materials.

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Choosing the Right Font For Your PowerPoint Presentation

Whether it’s for a professional conference or middle school book report, it’s important to know the best font to use for your PowerPoint presentation . Believe it or not, fonts are a big part of the overall design of your presentation —and they can make a world of difference! Some convey a lighthearted message, while others can show authority, and so on.

In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at:

• The different styles of fonts
• The 5 most popular fonts
• How to embed fonts, and more.

What are the different styles of fonts? Before we get too deep into each font and what looks best, let’s examine font styles and how they’re classified.

• Sans-serif fonts. Most serif fonts are easy to identify because of the tiny flags or projections on the ends of the characters. Serifs make distinguishing a lowercase L from a capital I in print easy.
• Serif fonts. Sans-serif fonts are commonly used in digital media because serifs can make letters difficult to see if an image or screen is low-resolution.
• Script fonts. Script fonts are also known as handwritten fonts because of the looping letters that make them look like cursive or calligraphy. Most people find it difficult to read more than a few sentences in a script font, so they’re best limited to a few words or a single phrase.
• Monospaced fonts. Even when writing by hand, you’ll notice that not all letters take up the same amount of space. Monospaced fonts buck this trend by allotting the same amount of space laterally for all letters, similar to a typewriter.
• Display fonts. Display fonts can also be known as fantasy or decorative fonts. These aren’t typically used for anything besides signage, banners, logos, or other text that’s isolated. Using display fonts for multiple sentences or a full paragraph isn’t a good practice because they can be hard to read or off-putting after a while.

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What are the 5 most popular fonts in presentations and why? A common theme you’ll notice when looking at the best fonts for PowerPoint is that they’re traditionally sans-serif fonts. Why? Well, this style is much easier to read from a distance and won’t feel cramped if letters are bolded. Additionally, the minimalistic style of sans-serif fonts isn’t distracting from the material or the speaker. Let’s look at five fonts that fit the best practices for a winning presentation .

Note: You’ll notice a serif font on this list, but we’ll address it when we get there.

• Roboto. Roboto is a sans-serif font that’s relatively basic, with sharp edges and rounded loops, counters, and bowls (the rounded parts of letters) without going overly bold or too thin. You can be safe using Roboto for just about any presentation.
• Verdana. Despite the font size you choose, not all fonts display the same. Verdana is a larger sans-serif font that can make it easier to display information without taking your font up an extra size.
• Helvetica. A point of differentiation between Helvetica and other sans-serif fonts is the weight toward the top of the letters. The top of every lowercase letter and the midpoint of every capital letter go to a thick midline’s upper edge. For instance, the top of every lowercase letter reaches the same horizontal point as the top of the crossbar on an H. This unique feature makes the Helvetica type look larger and bolder than it really is, which makes it great for headings and titles.
• Tahoma. Tahoma is different from the previous sans-serif fonts in that it is thinner than the others. While Tahoma might not have the same impact for a heading or title as Helvetica, it’s perfect for body text and fitting into smaller spaces without crowding.
• Palatino Linotype. Serif fonts have long been considered a no-no with digital publications, but with the advent of high-resolution computer monitors, tablets, smartphones, and TVs, they’re fine. What’s more, the serifs on Palatino Linotype aren’t incredibly prominent, so they make for a subtle nod to old-style fonts without over-embellishing.

How do you embed fonts in PowerPoint ? If you’re sharing your presentation with a friend, classmate, or colleague, you could be at risk of the fonts you used transferring properly to their device. For example, if you have a font you love using and installed it onto your computer, they might not have the same font. So, if you send your presentation to them, there could be formatting errors as their device defaults to a different font. Keep this from happening by embedding your font in PowerPoint using these easy steps:

• Click the “File” tab.
• Move down to the lower-lefthand corner of the window and click “Options.”
• Click “Save” on the left side of the screen.
• Scroll down to the section titled “Preserve fidelity when sharing this presentation:”
• Click the box next to “Embed fonts in the file.”
• If you or someone else will be using the presentation on a different device, then select the first option, “Embed only the characters used in the presentation (best for reducing file size).” If you or someone else will be editing the presentation on a different device, then select the second option, “Embed all characters (best for editing by other people).”
• Click “OK.”

There you have it! Choosing the best font for PowerPoint doesn’t have to be difficult. The most important part is making sure that the font is easy to read, and sans-serif fonts are usually a good way to go. By the way, it’s always a good idea to get a second set of eyes on your presentation before your big speech—and be sure to practice it a few times to iron out the kinks !

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15 Best Fonts for Impactful Presentations in 2024

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In the world of presentations, every detail counts, and the font you choose is no exception. As we enter 2024, the choice of font has become an integral part of presentation design, profoundly impacting how your message is received and perceived. 

Fonts do more than just display text; they set the tone, convey emotion, and can significantly affect audience engagement and information retention.

Whether you deliver a corporate report, a creative pitch, or an educational seminar, the right font can elevate your presentation from good to great.

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It is key to understand the psychology behind font choices and their impact on audience perception. Different fonts can evoke different feelings – a serif font might convey tradition and reliability, while a sans serif font often represents modernity and simplicity. But with countless fonts available, how do you choose the right one for your presentation?

In this blog, we will explore the “15 Best Fonts for Impactful Presentations in 2024,” covering a range of styles from professional and authoritative serif fonts to sleek and modern sans serifs, and even creative script and decorative options. 

Whether you’re a seasoned presenter or just starting, these insights will guide you in making informed decisions about font selection, ensuring your presentations are not only visually appealing but also effective in communicating your message. 

Let’s dive into the world of typography and discover how the right font can transform your next presentation .

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The Psychology of Fonts:

Understanding the psychological impact of different fonts is crucial in tailoring the mood and message of your sales presentation . Fonts carry their personality and character; for instance, serif fonts like Times New Roman or Garamond are often perceived as traditional and reliable, making them suitable for formal or corporate presentations. 

On the other hand, sans serif fonts like Helvetica or Arial exude a more modern and clean vibe, ideal for contemporary and straightforward presentations . Script fonts, while elegant and expressive, can inject a personal touch, suitable for creative or narrative-driven content. 

The key lies in aligning the font’s inherent qualities with the tone and purpose of your great presentation , ensuring that the typography complements and enhances your message, rather than distracting from it.

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Top 5 Serif Fonts for Presentations:

A. overview of serif fonts:.

Serif fonts, characterized by small lines or strokes attached to the end of larger strokes in letters, are often associated with professionalism, credibility, and tradition. These fonts are a staple in various presentation contexts, particularly suited for formal, academic, or corporate settings where clarity and authority are paramount. 

The presence of serifs makes these fonts exceptionally legible in printed formats and detailed slides, making them a reliable choice for conveying important information with gravitas.

B. Top 5 Serif Fonts for 2024:

Each of these serif fonts brings a unique flavor to presentations, enabling presenters to align their visual style with their content and audience expectations. These top serif fonts of 2024 offer compelling choices for impactful presentations.

Times New Roman

A classic choice, Times New Roman remains a staple in the professional world. Its straightforward, no-nonsense appearance is perfect for financial reports, legal presentations, and academic lectures.

Known for its elegant and timeless look, Garamond is ideal for presentations that require a touch of sophistication without sacrificing readability. It works well for literary topics, historical content, and high-end corporate presentations.

Designed specifically for digital readability, Georgia is a versatile serif font that is equally effective on screen and in print. Its slightly rounded features and ample spacing make it a great choice for webinars and online presentations.

Baskerville

Offering a balance of sharpness and elegance, Baskerville works well for presentations that aim to impress and engage. Its professional demeanor is suited for high-level business presentations, academic conferences, and professional seminars.

Top 5 Sans Serif Fonts for Presentations

A. exploring the appeal of sans serif fonts:.

Sans serif fonts, known for their clean lines and absence of decorative strokes, have become increasingly popular in modern presentations. 

Their simplicity and clarity make them ideal for digital screens, where legibility is paramount.

The minimalist design of sans serif fonts lends a contemporary and approachable feel, making them suitable for a wide range of presentation contexts, from tech startups to creative agencies. 

B. Top 5 Sans Serif Fonts for 2024:

Each of these sans serif fonts offers a clean and modern aesthetic, ideal for a variety of contemporary presentation styles. These top sans serif fonts of 2024 can help enhance your message with style and clarity.

A widely used sans serif font, Arial is known for its versatility and readability. It’s a safe and professional choice for business presentations, especially when dealing with diverse and international audiences.

Renowned for its clean, crisp lines, Helvetica is a favorite for branding and marketing presentations. Its neutral yet appealing character makes it perfect for conveying modern professionalism.

Designed specifically for digital readability, Roboto offers a harmonious balance between mechanical and geometric forms. This font is ideal for tech-focused presentations or any content meant to be consumed on digital platforms.

As a default font in many applications, Calibri is familiar and comfortable for most audiences. Its soft, rounded curves are suitable for both corporate and casual presentations, making it a versatile choice.

Known for its friendly and legible appearance, Open Sans works well in both print and digital formats. It’s particularly effective for educational content, webinars, and instructional presentations, where clarity is crucial.

Top 5 Script and Decorative Fonts for Creative Presentations

A. when and how to use script and decorative fonts effectively:.

Script and decorative fonts are perfect for adding a unique flair and personality to your presentations, especially in creative or less formal contexts. These fonts work best for titles, headers, or special emphasis, as their elaborated poster design can be overwhelming if used extensively. The key is to use them sparingly and balance them with more straightforward fonts for body text. They are ideal for presentations in the arts, fashion, or entertainment sectors, where visual impact is as crucial as the content itself. Remember, the goal is to enhance your presentation’s aesthetic appeal without sacrificing readability.

B. Showcasing the Top 5 Script and Decorative Fonts for 2024:

These top script and decorative fonts for 2024 can add a distinctive character to your presentations, making them memorable and engaging. While they offer creative freedom, it’s crucial to balance their decorative nature with the functional aspects of your presentation.

Known for its playful and bold style, Lobster is perfect for titles and headings, giving your presentation a touch of modern elegance.

Pacifico offers a relaxed and friendly vibe, ideal for casual or creative presentations where a personal touch is desired.

Great Vibes

This elegant script font adds a sophisticated flair to any presentation, suitable for wedding planners, fashion brands, or upscale events .

Dancing Script

As the name suggests, Dancing Script brings a dynamic and lively feel to your slides, great for engaging and informal presentations.

A bold and contemporary brush script, Brusher is ideal for making a statement in creative and artistic presentations.

Accessibility and Readability

The accessibility and readability of fonts cannot be overstated. Selecting fonts that are easily legible is crucial not only for effective communication but also for inclusivity, ensuring that your content is accessible to all audience members, including those with visual impairments.

A key tip is to opt for fonts with clear, distinct characters, such as Arial or Calibri, and avoid overly stylized fonts that might cause readability issues. 

Additionally, consider the size and color contrast of your text against backgrounds; higher contrast and larger font sizes significantly enhance readability. 

Prioritizing these aspects in your font selection makes your dynamic presentation more user-friendly, ensuring that your message is conveyed clearly and effectively to every member of your audience.

Font Pairing Strategies

Effective font pairing is an art that can significantly enhance the aesthetic appeal and clarity of your presentation. 

A best practice is to combine a serif font with a sans serif font, balancing tradition with modernity. For example, pairing a classic serif like Times New Roman for headings with a clean sans serif like Arial for body text can create a visually appealing and readable layout. 

Another strategy is to use two different weights or styles of the same font family, which provides visual variety while maintaining cohesion. 

Remember, the key to successful font pairing is contrast and harmony; the fonts should be distinct enough to create interest but similar enough to maintain a unified and professional look.

Tips for Customizing Fonts

Customizing fonts effectively can elevate the uniqueness and brand alignment of your presentation. To achieve this, consider modifying font styles to match your brand’s personality. Here are the best 5 tips for customizing your fonts:

Align Font with Brand Personality: Choose a font that reflects your brand’s character. For a modern brand, go for a clean sans serif; for a traditional feel, opt for a classic serif.

Experiment with Font Weight and Size: Adjust the weight (bold, regular, light) and size of your font for emphasis and hierarchy within your presentation content.

Use Brand Colors: Customize your font color to match your brand’s palette, enhancing brand recognition and visual appeal.

Create Contrast for Emphasis: Pair contrasting fonts (like a bold headline with a light body text) to draw attention and create visual interest.

Leverage Typography Tools: Utilize tools like Adobe Fonts or Canva for advanced customizations, such as letter spacing, line height, and creating unique font styles.

Common Font Selection Mistakes to Avoid

When selecting fonts for presentations, a common pitfall to avoid is choosing style over legibility. Fonts that are overly decorative or stylized can detract from the clarity of your message, making it difficult for the audience to quickly process information. 

Another frequent mistake is using too many different fonts, which can create a disjointed and unprofessional look. Ideally, stick to a maximum of two to three complementary fonts. 

Additionally, avoid underestimating the importance of font size; too small fonts can be challenging to read, especially in larger rooms or on smaller screens. 

The choice of font in your presentations can significantly influence the effectiveness of your message. From the psychology behind serif and sans serif fonts to the importance of readability and accessibility, each aspect plays a crucial role in how your content is perceived and received. Take a look at how CustomShow could help in your presentations .

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Google Slides Styling: The 25 Best Fonts for Google Slides

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Imagine this: You’ve nailed every word on your Google Slides presentation, but somehow, it still feels like it’s missing pizzazz. That’s where the alchemy of typography waltzes in, turning standard slides into stunning visual narratives.

No magic wand needed here — just the right  selection of fonts  that command attention and bolster your message.

Here’s the deal: Whether it’s the understated elegance of sans-serif or the formal flair of serif, the  typography  you choose can make or break the viewer’s experience.

It’s not just about pretty letters; it’s about enhancing  readability , ensuring  accessibility , and encapsulating your brand’s persona, all while painting your ideas in the best light.

By the final punctuation mark of this article, you’ll be equipped with the best fonts for Google Slides  that guarantee your presentations pack a punch.

Dive deep into the realm of  Google Slides design tips , with insights into pairing, sizes, and  legibility  that will elevate your content from good to extraordinary.

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The Best Fonts for Google Slides

Best serif fonts.

Let’s talk about the best fonts for Google Slides , especially if you’re into that classic, elegant vibe. Serif fonts, with their little feet, make your slides look like they just walked out of a fashion magazine. They’re not just fonts; they’re a statement.

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Best fonts for presentations and how to use them effectively

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The best fonts for presentations convey more meaning, kick up your brand’s personality, and bring words to life . That said, it’s important to make sure your audience isn’t spending all of their energy focused on the text on the screen. Use our tips below to discover the best fonts for your presentation to keep it balanced.

How to choose the best font for a presentation

Serif vs. sans serif.

Serif fonts use decorative lines on the ends of letters, while sans serif fonts don’t. Serif fonts can be more legible in smaller font sizes, as the little lines help readers distinguish letters and follow some sort of flow as they read. Sans serif fonts work well in tight spaces, like labels and headings, and can be more legible from far away or in poor resolutions.

Readability

When choosing a font, go for something that’s easy to read. Decorative fonts are fun, but can be so distracting they take away from your message. Presentations work best with a sans serif font (they’re more legible), especially if they’re being read from far away. A few extra pointers:

• Helvetica and Futura are legible at most font sizes.
• Rockwell is bold, suitable for a headline or point you want to hammer home to your audience.
• Classic styles such as Helvetica, Futura, Rockwell, Gill Sans, and Garamond are some of the best options for body copy in presentations.

How many fonts should you use in a presentation?

It’s best to limit the number of fonts in your presentation to create a more cohesive product. Try using up to 2 fonts, one for headings and one for body copy. The font for your body copy should be easy to read in large blocks of text, while your heading font should be larger and legible from further away (especially if you’re presenting to a large audience in person).

Standard fonts

You wouldn’t want your presentation to look different on someone else’s device, so you should choose a font that comes standard on the majority of operating systems. Prezi uses Google Fonts , a catalog of free, open-source fonts that are available for commercial use.

Tips for using presentation fonts effectively

Text placement.

When you add text to your presentations, take care to make sure it’s big enough to read, but doesn’t steal the show; informative, but not dense; and placed with intention rather than just slapped up there any old way.

Labeling your topics in Prezi

When it comes to labeling your topics in Prezi, short titles are best because they’re easier for viewers to digest and help presenters get to where they’re going quickly. You can even replace your labels with shapes or illustrations if they are clearly representative enough of each topic:

Bullet points

Keep in mind that bullet points may seem audience-friendly, but they can be distracting (think of where your eyes zoom to when you skim an article). Keep the attention on you. Instead of several points per frame, try to focus on displaying a single message at a time. And remember, a visual representation that supports your point is more effective at conveying the message than more text.At the end of the day good typography isn’t that hard to master. Just ask yourself if you were attending this presentation, would you get the message? When you’re ready to dive into more of the basics, like choosing right colors and organizing content, fill out the form below to download our eBook: “Presentation Design 101 for Sales and Marketing.”

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The Five Best Fonts for Presentations and Why They Work So Well

Fonts, typefaces, and typography are topics covered in numerous books and articles. The majority of them describe fonts, typefaces, and how they appear in print. However, there are few books and articles that explain how to choose fonts for workshop presentations. I did some research and testing and found the five best fonts for presentations.

The 5 best fonts for presentations are Frutiger, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, and Verdana. These fonts work because they are sans-serif fonts, with large x-heights and they are sharp and legible when displayed on a screen.

This article will show you how I choose these fonts that I use in my workshop presentations.

What are the five best fonts for presentations?

Over the years, I read a lot of books and articles about fonts, typefaces, and typography. Many of these books and articles explain the history and characteristics of numerous fonts and typefaces. These books and articles, however, are not particularly useful when I am looking for fonts to use in my development workshops.

Of the hundreds of fonts available, I choose fonts simply by selecting fonts that work for me. Below is what I did, and you may want to try variations of it in your search for the best fonts.

1. Find fonts that are suitable for presentations.

Since my task is to deliver an interesting development workshop, I want fonts that are good for displaying text clearly on the screen without being outlandish. This means sticking to serif and sans-serif fonts and excluding display, script, freehand, novelty, and calligraphic fonts. If you are new to fonts and typography and don’t know what are serif and sans-serif fonts, below are two examples of serif fonts and two examples of sans-serif fonts.

A serif font has small strokes (or serifs) attached to a longer stroke. Please see the serif fonts in the diagram above. Some examples of serif fonts are Baskerville and Times New Roman. A sans-serif font, on the other hand, does not have these small strokes. Some examples of sans-serif fonts are Frutiger and Gill Sans.

Since there are quite a large number of serif and sans-serif fonts, I need to narrow them down to a few. To find out which fonts are ‘better’, I showed many PowerPoint slides using serif and sans-serif fonts and I asked my workshop participants which fonts they preferred. Many preferred the slides using sans-serif fonts like Frutiger and Helvetica instead of slides using serif fonts like Baskerville and Times New Roman.

You may want to try out different fonts, including the newer Google Fonts like Roboto and Open Sans, and find out which fonts your workshop participants prefer.

2. Find fonts that are legible on the screen.

A font is legible if its characters are easily distinguishable from other characters. A common example is the letter ‘I’ should look different from the number ‘1’. Another example is the letter ‘O’ should look different from the number ‘0’. Yet another example is distinguishing between the letter ‘c’ and the letter ‘e’.

Unfortunately, many sans-serif fonts have the upper-case letter ‘I’ looking very similar to the lower-case letter ‘l’. For example, in the phrase “I like to …”, you can see the first two characters are identical although they are different letters. By the way, the font used in the phrase and in this article is Open Sans, a sans-serif font.

Font’s x-height

A font’s x-height is the height of a lowercase ‘x’ character, measured from its baseline. Fonts with a large x-height are more legible than fonts with a small x-height. Below are the x-heights of three fonts.

In the above diagram, the bottom black line is the baseline, the red line is the median line, and the top blue line is the ascender line. The x-height is the distance between the black baseline and the red median line, and the font height is the distance between the black baseline and the blue ascender line.

Frutiger has a larger x-height than Gill Sans and Times New Roman, making it more legible, especially at a distance than the other two fonts. So, choose fonts with an x-height for legibility.

For a classroom setting where participants are seated facing a screen, sans-serif fonts with font sizes from 24px to 32px are quite readable. So, choose fonts with sizes 24px and larger .

Although using this font size suggestion for readability is easy to do, the projector screen and the venue are usually beyond your control. A screen that is too big for a small classroom is ineffective. Neither is a small screen in a large room. There are many poorly designed lecture theatres that can seat 300 students but have screens that are meant for classrooms.

If the screen and the projector are movable, you can adjust the distance between them to get the sharpest text images that are readable on the screen. However, if the screen and projector are fixed on the wall or ceiling, there’s not much you can do to improve readability. You can enlarge or reduce the size of the fonts in your PowerPoint layouts, but that is likely to end up in a mess if you try to do that just before the start of the workshop.

Font’s line spacing

Line spacing is the space between two lines of text and it has an impact on readability. If the line spacing is small, it is harder to read, as shown in the diagram below.

A 1.1-line spacing is easier to read as compared to 1.0 (or single) line spacing. A 1.2-line spacing is even easier to read. However, the larger the line spacing, the few lines of text you can put on the screen.

Font and background colors

Many studies recommend using dark text on a light background. The most commonly used combination is black lettering on a white background. This combination is also recommended by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in their usability guidelines .

There are also studies that recommend using very dark gray (hex #444444) instead of black (hex #000000) for lettering on a white background, or using black lettering on an off-white (hex #F5F5F5) or ivory (hex #FFFF0) background.

The font and background color combination I find most readable are black letterings on a white background. Many of my workshop participants have no complaints about this combination. One interesting feedback I received from my participants is that many of them prefer black lettering on a white background over white lettering on a black background.

4. Fonts with special characters

If your workshop deals with numbers and mathematical equations, then you will need a font that has numbers, symbols, mathematical symbols, subscripts, superscripts, and Greek characters, to display mathematical equations effectively. Although most fonts have special characters and symbols, some may not have the ones that you require. So, you need to double-check.

A simple way to check whether the font you selected has the character you want is to go to the font’s Character Map .

To do this in Windows 10, click the Start button, scroll down to the Windows Accessories folder, expand the folder, and select Character Map. Select the font and see if it has the character that you want. If yes, select the character and copy it to your Powerpoint presentation.

Another way to get mathematical symbols is to download the Math Symbol Font (maths.ttf) and install it.

How to test the fonts you selected

Now that you’ve chosen a few fonts for presentations, the ‘best’ way to test them is to use them in your workshop and see which font your workshop participants prefer. So, when would be the best time to do this?

I do my font testing after the Q & A (Questions and Answers) session. Once I finished the Q & A session, I usually ask participants if there is anything that they think will make the workshop better, such as more examples, more individual exercises, more group activities, or more videos. Following that, I will show two PowerPoint pages with the same text but with different fonts and background colors, and ask which one they prefer. This test is far from perfect but it works for me.

The best fonts for workbooks and handouts

Many trainers give out handouts and notes during workshop sessions. Can those fonts for presentations be used in these printed materials? Yes, they can, although I prefer serif fonts for this.

Here’s why: I read Drew Whitman’s book Cashvertising a few years ago, and he quoted a font study that showed that people understand a paragraph set in a serif typeface better than the same paragraph set in a sans-serif typeface. That piqued my interest, and I did similar tests. I gave my workshop participants workbooks that used serif and sans-serif fonts. Surprisingly, many participants preferred workbooks using serif fonts like Minion and Times New Roman.

So, for printed materials like handouts, workbooks, and a list of references , I use Minion which is a serif font.

Font typeface, users, and designers

Here are some fun facts about the fonts I like to use in my presentations:

Frutiger , designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1975, has a humanist sans-serif typeface. The font is very legible from a distance and it is used on signs at numerous transportation hubs. Amtrak, National Health Service, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Port Authority of New York, Schiphol Airport, and Union Bank of Switzerland use Frutiger in their signage.

Futura , designed by Paul Renner in 1927, has a geometric sans-serif typeface. The font is based on geometric shapes, especially circles and ovals. Futura is used by companies such as Fox News, HP, Royal Dutch Shell, Swissair, and Volkswagen.

Gill Sans , designed by Eric Gill in 1927, has a humanist sans-serif typeface. It is a highly readable font and many people say that it has a distinctively British look. Initially designed for display purposes, Gill Sans is now used in posters and advertisements by companies such as Benetton, British Rail, and John Lewis.

Helvetica , designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, has a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface. This font is very popular and it is highly legible because of its large x-height. BMW, GM, Lufthansa, Nestle, and Verizon are among the companies that use Helvetica.

Minion , designed by Robert Slimbach in 1989, has a neohumanist serif typeface. The font is designed for extended reading of body text and is used in many books.

Verdana , designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft in 1996, has a humanist sans-serif typeface, similar to that of Frutiger. The font has a large x-height, making it very legible. It is also wider than most sans-serif fonts. Verdana is very readable on computer screens and many websites use it. Aston Martin, Concorde, and Jaguar are among the companies that use Verdana.

My five best fonts for presentations are:

• Frutiger for business and management workshops
• Futura for creativity and innovation workshops
• Gill Sans for workshops with lots of content
• Helvetica for workshops that are “conservative”
• Verdana for IT and high tech workshops

I select these fonts for presentations simply by displaying PowerPoint slides with these fonts to my workshop participants and asking them which ones they prefer. This way of selecting fonts is not scientific but, as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and it worked for me. I have been using these five fonts for years.

Try these fonts in your workshop presentation and let me know what your workshop participants think about them. Most importantly, have fun with fonts.

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The foremost purpose of your presentation is to communicate your thinking to your audience effectively. To keep the audience engaged in your presentation, believe it or not, the Presentation font selection also plays a significant role. The fonts create the tone and atmosphere of the presentation. PowerPoint Fonts have the power to enhance or dampen your communication considerably.  Fonts are like non-verbal expressions of written words. You can make your words look bold and confident or shaky just by the choice of your fonts in presentations . You can actually produce deep and powerful impressions using presentation fonts .

In a nutshell, you don’t want your audience to be distracted from the topic just because of the font selection. Right? So what should you be taking care of in font selection while designing your next winning presentation ? Let’s learn more about professional presentation fonts for winning over your audience: 

Points To Avoid While Choosing Presentation Fonts:

Overuse of certain presentation fonts.

Initially created for The Times newspaper in 1929, Times New Roman became the new default font for many MS Office Apps, and it is overused since then. Just like Times New Roman, Arial has been a default font for Windows for many years; this reason is enough to justify why Arial is one of the most boring fonts. We are tired of seeing these presentation fonts almost everywhere. You don’t only have to choose the font that fits your business and the presentation topic, but also need to make sure that you avoid all of the common options. Our attention span is decreasing very fast; we get bored very fast. If your content is not attention-grabbing, you can’t engage your audience. Move away from the defaults; use different cool presentation fonts , there is so much more out there.

Use Of Cool Fancy Fonts

Although it might look fancy to look at cool presentation fonts , they considerably reduce the readability of your content. Handwriting-style fonts such as Mistral and Viner Hand can be fun to use; however,  they can make your slides look unprofessional. Similarly, some best fonts for a presentation such as Comic Sans are more appropriate for content prepared for children rather than for professional presentations . Your audience in the back row relies on the slides to help them understand what you’re talking about, the corporate presentations are why you should avoid tiny presentation fonts like Brush Script or Bradly Hand. Most of us should try to stick to the basics when it comes to font styles. Make sure you keep it simple and formal!

Use Of Obvious & Boring Fonts

Helvetica Neue typeface was proudly used by widely-known companies such as Apple, Nasa, and BMW because it worked for them. The problem is that Helvetica is a thin-weight font, and when shown in smaller point sizes, its curves break up. Kerning is the space between two letters based on their shape. Too little space makes the professional presentation fonts unreadable because the letters are smushed together.  Unfortunately, Helvetica uses kerning to distort words, making the text difficult to read by randomizing the spaces between characters. Using this professional presentation font in your presentation won’t bring any extra value.

Misuse Of Shadow

Many people use shadows on their text to make it stand out. However, when you use shadows, the text looks blurry and dirty. It’s always better to avoid shadow, especially for PowerPoint presentations .  But if you are a fan of text-shadow and still want to use a drop shadow on text, only use it on the header and never in the body. Also, consider using a dark background with white bold text for better visuals.

What are the best fonts for a presentation?

Use Best PowerPoint Fonts – Verdana and Georgia

Designers at Microsoft deliberately crafted Verdana for use on computer screens. This is considered one of the cool presentation fonts . The letters are widely spaced, and lowercase letters are tall, making this font extremely readable. Verdana makes it a very safe bet when you know that your presentation will appear on different devices. It is also not overused making it the best font for a presentation to make the content look appealing and readable To effectively showcase numbers in the PowerPoint presentation , Georgia is a great serif option offering lowercase numbers, which are also a Windows standard font. Therefore this is amongst the best presentation fonts when showcasing numbers.

Make Your Presentation Fonts Readable

Creating your presentation using some cool presentation fonts will make your audience focus on the design rather than the message that you want to deliver. Also, it would reduce the readability of your content. Therefore choose professional fonts that allow your readers to focus on the message .  It would help if you effectively format your text on the slides so that they don’t look too busy. The use of proper line spacing and margins can increase the readability of the content . Effective use of bullet points and indentation can make your slides look neat.

Stick To Grayscale For Fonts In Presentation

Studies have shown that different colors have different impacts on the mind and evoke mixed feelings in many people. It would be best if you keep that in mind while creating a presentation since you want to avoid colors that might negatively impact the message you are delivering. Pro Tip:  It is always safe to use grayscale in your presentation as they look professional.

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The 4 Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

The right font can make or break a presentation.

But fonts pose unique challenges in presentations. They can vary based on platform, where you are presenting, and even what type of content you are using. Some are stylish but hard to read, others are clear and don’t stand out.

There there are serifs, sans serifs, weights, and so many more things to decide before you even write a word.

So how do you choose the best fonts for your presentation?

In this blog, we’ll cover our top 4 favorite fonts to use in PowerPoint presentations, along with a few suggestions for the best way to use each one.

What is a font?

People generally use the term “font” to refer to a set of letters with a specific style.

Traditionally, a typeface is the larger family of letters (for example, Arial) and a font is a specific version of that family (Arial > Arial Bold). But since font is the common usage, we’ll stick with that.

Why does it matter what font I choose?

Fonts serve two purposes: to share your content, and to add visual style.

Some fonts are clear and easy to read, like Arial or Helvetica. Others are complex and striking, but can be hard to decipher.

The font you choose can also set the tone for your brand and your presentation. Some fonts are playful and fun, while others are serious and weighty. This also means that not every font is appropriate to every presentation.

For more on fonts, check out our Typography 101 post .

Serif vs. sans serif

Most fonts fall into two categories: serif fonts and sans serif fonts.

A serif is just a decorative stroke on the end of letters. Serif fonts are often used in body text, as the serifs make letters easy to read, even when they are small.

Sans serif fonts don’t have the decorative serif (or stroke) at the end of the letter. This tends to make them appear more “modern,” which is why you’ll see them used in apps or social media platforms, for example.

What are the best fonts for presentations?

Because each font (and presentation) is unique, there’s no single “best font” you can use, but there are some that work better than others.

Here are the five best fonts to use in your next presentation.

Best fonts for presentations: Sans serifs

Arial is one of the best fonts for presentations for a few different reasons.

First, its simplicity makes it clear and easy to read at almost any size. This means your audience can understand the content of your slides without any distractions. And with its classic look, it feels both familiar and professional.

It’s also a system font, which is a bonus for presentations. System fonts are ones that are on most computers by default, so they won’t look funny if a user opens your presentation on another device.

Our second favorite sans serif font is Calibri.

Calibri excels for the same reasons as Arial – it’s clean and legible, and it’s a system font. In fact, it’s probably the most widely recognized system font, as it was the default font when Microsoft Office launched.

But each option brings a slightly different feel. Where Arial is classic and elegant, Calibri is casual and approachable.

Its contemporary look makes Calibri adaptable to various presentation themes and styles, from a school project to a marketing deck.

Best fonts for presentations: Serifs

For serif fonts, Georgia is an excellent choice.

When you want to make text more readable, serifs can help guide the eye from letter to letter. It’s also a system font, so it’s a reliable choice for presentations that you need to share with multiple people.

Georgia also has an elegant and timeless look that adds a touch of sophistication to your presentations. This makes it a great choice for bringing a sense of established credibility to your content.

Best font for presentations overall: Your brand font

If your brand has a unique font that is set in your guidelines, that’s often the best choice for your presentations.

The reason your brand font is best is that it has been carefully chosen to best represent your brand. It also helps to ensure that all of your brand assets are consistent, including presentations.

Using a brand font is ideal for cases like custom presentations or conferences, where you are controlling the creation and ownership of the presentation and you really want to showcase your branding.

If you have a template, your brand font is likely already included. If it’s not, you should consider embedding your brand font into your presentation to make sure it displays correctly. Note that embedding can be tricky depending on the font you’re using, so make sure to test it out before your presentation.

These options are effective fonts for almost any presentation, but the best font to choose is the one that fits your audience and your content.

When you are considering fonts, always think about what type of presentation you are giving, who the audience is, and where it will be given. The answers to these questions can help you choose a font that is clear, legible, and appropriate.

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Danielle John is the founder of VerdanaBold. She has more than 25 years as an award-winning designer and creative lead, directing the visual expression and production of thousands of high-value new business pitches, C-level presentations and internal presentations for major global brands. When she’s not busy at VerdanaBold, she can be found antique shopping and spending time with her husband and two kids.

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How to wrap text in google slides.

Make an attention-worthy presentation by wrapping text in slides

You must strike the right balance between media files and text to create an engaging presentation. When you insert several photos in a slide, wrap the text around them to enhance its visual appeal. It also adds a professional touch and conveys the message better.

When you add text and images to a slide, you may need to change the text position so that it doesn't overlap with the inserted media. Whether you use Google Slides on a desktop or rely on the company's apps on your iPhone, budget Android phone , or tablet to make last-minute tweaks, check the tips below to wrap text around images in no time.

What is text wrap in Google Slides?

Text wrapping is a common feature in popular Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 apps, like Docs, Sheets, Word, Excel, and Google Slides. It wraps text around other slide content like photos and videos. You can resize text content and place it in a relevant position on a slide.

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Wrap text in google slides on the web.

Since most Google Slides users prefer a web version, let's start with it. Follow the steps below to insert an image and add text around it.

• Launch Google Slides on the web and sign in with your account details.
• Create a new presentation or open an existing one.

Now, it's time to wrap the text around your image. Unlike Google Docs, there isn't a one-click solution to adjust your text automatically. You'll rely on a workaround.

• Move to a new slide when you are satisfied with the outcome.

Tweak wrap text effect in Google Slides

You can also play with text formatting options in Google Slides. This is a neat way to improve the text wrap effect.

• Open a slide in your presentation and select a text box.
• Click Format at the top and expand Align and indent .

The option produces a clean edge on the left and right. It takes care of uneven gaps and rivers in the text.

Wrap text in Google Slides apps

The ability to wrap text in Google Slides is available on mobile and tablet. We use Google Slides for iPad in the screenshots below.

• Launch Google Slides on your tablet and open a presentation.
• Use the blue border to place your text box anywhere on a slide.

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Benefits of wrapping text in google slides.

Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides isn't smart enough to show design ideas based on your added text, images, and other graphical elements. When you add images and text, you must manually adjust them for a cohesive look. Here are some of the advantages of wrapping text in Google Slides.

• Creates a solid presentation with lots of images and relevant text content.
• Conveys your pitch in a meaningful manner.
• Simplifies your busy slide.
• Cuts down the number of slides in a presentation.

Improvise your pitch

Your presentation may look busy, cluttered, and unprofessional without text wrapping. It only requires a few clicks and small adjustments to make your text look organized with other slide elements. You can also tweak text from the Google Slides mobile apps.

If you don't want to deal with text wrapping and other formatting options, start with a top Google Slides template and make the required changes quickly to complete a presentation.

What is Good Friday? What the holy day means for Christians around the world

Christians around the world observe Good Friday two days before Easter, but what is it, and why do they commemorate the holy day?

The holiday is part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday kicks off the series of Christian holy days that commemorate the Crucifixion and celebrate Jesus Christ's resurrection.

"Good Friday has been, for centuries now, the heart of the Christian message because it is through the death of Jesus Christ that Christians believe that we have been forgiven of our sins," Daniel Alvarez, an associate teaching professor of religious studies at Florida International University, told USA TODAY.

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When is Good Friday?

Good Friday is always the Friday before Easter. It's the second-to-last day of Holy Week.

In 2024, Good Friday will fall on March 29.

What is Good Friday?

Good Friday is the day Christ was sacrificed on the cross. According to Britannica , it is a day for "sorrow, penance, and fasting."

"Good Friday is part of something else," Gabriel Radle, an assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, previously told USA TODAY. "It's its own thing, but it's also part of something bigger."

Are Good Friday and Passover related?

Alvarez says that Good Friday is directly related to the Jewish holiday, Passover.

Passover , or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.

"The whole Christian idea of atoning for sin, that Jesus is our atonement, is strictly derived from the Jewish Passover tradition," said Alvarez.

How is that possible?

According to the professor, Passover celebrates the day the "Angel of Death" passed over the homes of Israelites who were enslaved by the Egyptians. He said that the Bible states when the exodus happened, families were told to paint their doors with lamb's blood so that God would spare the lives of their firstborn sons.

Alvarez says this is why Christians call Jesus the "lamb of God." He adds that the symbolism of the "blood of the lamb" ties the two stories together and is why Christians believe God sacrificed his firstborn son. Because, through his blood, humanity is protected from the "wrath of a righteous God that cannot tolerate sin."

He adds that the stories of the exodus and the Crucifixion not only further tie the stories together but also emphasize just how powerful the sacrifice of the firstborn and the shedding of blood are in religion.

"Jesus is the firstborn, so the whole idea of the death of the firstborn is crucial," said Alvarez.

He adds that the sacrifice of the firstborn, specifically a firstborn son, comes from an ancient and "primitive" idea that the sacrifice unleashes "tremendous power that is able to fend off any kind of force, including the wrath of God."

Why Is Good Friday so somber?

Alavarez says people might think this holiday is more depressing or sad than others because of how Catholics commemorate the Crucifixion.

"I think [it's] to a level that some people might think is morbid," said Alvarez.

He said Catholics not only meditate on Jesus' death, but primarily focus on the suffering he faced in the events that led up to his Crucifixion. That's what makes it such a mournful day for people.

But, the professor says that Jesus' suffering in crucial to Christianity as a whole.

"The suffering of Christ is central to the four Gospels," said Alvarez. "Everything else is incidental."

According to the professor, statues that use blood to emphasize the way Jesus and Catholic saints suffered is very common in Spanish and Hispanic Countries, but not as prevalent in American churches.

Do you fast on Good Friday?

Father Dustin Dought, the executive director of the Secretariat of Divine Worship of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, previously told USA TODAY that Good Friday and Ash Wednesday are the two days in the year that Roman Catholics are obliged to fast.

"This practice is a way of emptying ourselves so that we can be filled with God," said Dought.

What do you eat on Good Friday?

Many Catholics do not eat meat on any Friday during Lent. Anything with flesh is off-limits. Dought says this practice is to honor the way Jesus sacrificed his flesh on Good Friday.

Meat that is off limits includes:

Instead, many Catholics will eat fish. According to the Marine Stewardship Council , this is allowed because fish is considered to be a different type of flesh.

Contributing: Jordan Mendoza ; USA TODAY