Relatedly I’m still bitter that when Microsoft made calibri the default font one of my professors accused me of fudging with the font to allow for a higher word count per page and took off some marks 
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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wow that's a ridiculous accusation
Rightly so.
Learn about kerning early, kids.
Also, do people still do the 15pt period trick?
Ugh, use Cambria or Constantia then. These fonts were designed to work well with ClearType (though by now Times New Roman plays well with it too (except, given USGov, presumably some of those machines are still running old ass software))
Whatever, enjoy your headaches, fascists
In searching for what cambria looks like, I found an actually interesting and useful feature of google search, which is incredibly rare. When you google "$nameOfFont font" the results page is in that font.
Doesn't work for wingdings, the cowards
Doesn't work for Papyrus, does for Comic Sans.
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give it a while they're start ai-generating the fonts instead
Count the ~~fingers~~ serifs
Ooh. I'm not like a font nerd, I couldn't recognize almost any of them. But cambria looks really nice. Why does it look so nice?
Cambria is a serif font (which helps with readability on printed docs and just feels a bit fancier than the sans-serifs) but is one that was designed with the goal of looking good on screens (and scaling well regardless of pixel density)
This is a pro-Comic Sans comm 
I use Papyrus and Impact Bold as my defaults.
Moving from Microsoft product to Microsoft product in true burgerlander fashion.
Anyway all of these fonts have equivalents in Liberation fonts and carlito.
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