What do you use for Fonts in Access?

[TheSmileyCoder]

Hi all

This is not a question, its more of a call to discussion.


I myself am just so tired of always seing Arial and Times New Roman fonts everywhere. So I started looking for some new fonts and have decided on using 3 fonts. One for labels, one for textboxes and one for buttons.

For my labels: [Gloucester MT Extra Condensed] Size 12
For my textboxes: [Trebuchet MS] size 10
For my buttons: [Sylfaen] Size 11

However I was wondering if anyone else out there had found some visually pleasing setups, and were willing to share.

[NeoPa]

I'm always nervous of using any fonts other than the standard ones as I expect that computers running my apps will have an unexpected look and feel if they find they don't have access to the fonts used. It's a bit like libraries. I try to stick to the ones that come with Office where possible (or any others that are pretty well guaranteed to be available on all computers). Even the WSH (Windows Scripting Host) is something I use sparingly and avoid if I can.

But that's just to illustrate the idea behind my choices. I don't want to divert the thread off-topic already. Not in the second post :-D

[TheSmileyCoder]

Its a very valid point. Not only do you risk the applications not having the right "feel", but since not all fonts use the same space per charecter, one might find that labels are suddenly too short to fit the text within them.

I found:
Fonts in Office 2003
and found that "my" Gloucester MT Extra Condensed was the only one included. However I have no idea where the other ones came from (I could probably find out by googling it) but your point remains, that I should stick to the fonts included in Office.

[NeoPa]

You describe part of the problem well Smiley. That is certainly one of the issues.

However, my comment was describing what I do, and is simply a consideration. In no way does it say what you should do. That is always your choice of course.

[dsatino]

I've gone this route before, and it's a bad idea. I know it's boring but you'll invariably end up changing them back because some nmachine doesn't recognize the fonts you're using.

I tried Sylfaen for an application and the first machine that I loaded it on (which had XP) didn't recognize it.

[TheSmileyCoder]

Thank you. So what do you use? Are you simply using the default? (which is Tahoma on my system, Win XP, Ac2003)

Or are you using Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman?

[dsatino]

Mostly Tahoma and Arial for Acc2000 and 2003, but I'll use Times New Roman if I want to get 'fancy'.

Access 2010 defaults to Calibri(Detail) which is pretty easy on the eyes.

I'm pretty sure you can load whatever fonts you want on to the machines you install you apps on, but that's just one more thing to worry about.

[dk4300]

I don't mind the 2007 default, but ultimately I still have ended up changing it. Arial, size 9. All the way. Readable but narrow.

[dk4300]

Arial size 9 was sooooo 3 weeks ago. :)
Now Calibri size 9 has won my heart (but strangely not my form headers which are still Arial...14, I think)

[Adam Tippelt]

Segoe UI size 18 for headers.
2007 default - Calibri - in various sizes (mostly size 11) for pretty much everything else. It's nice to look at and a lot more fresh than Times New Roman/Arial.

[dk4300]

Sugoe UI?? Sugoe UI!! Love it. My new headers. Size 14.