It’s my belief that the most memorable presentations have a personality and soul. But not tailoring it to your tone makes it more like that annoying lonely guy at a bar who sidles up to your crew and ends up driving away the ladies.
Your PowerPoint is supposed to be your best wingman. You are also in EVERYONE ELSE’S PRESENTATIONS. In every new PowerPoint deck I open, there you are. So what if you dethroned Times New Roman from its Microsoft default font reign? I’m not impressed anymore, with your rounded corners and soft lines taking me on an unwanted trip to early 2007. Now you can bring a cinematic element to your Docs.Yeah you, you default font of every single Microsoft document. Designer Jaikishan Patel expands its use case here, designing it for applications in science fiction, sports, drama, and thriller posters. You’ve probably seen a typeface similar to Goldman, with its angled terminals and squared counters (the negative space in letters), used for the front covers of sci-fi novels. But Bodoni Moda’s contrasting thin and thick strokes make it stand on its own, and it’s high time the font family gets some attention, too. Garamond, a typeface similar to Bodoni, already exists in Google Docs. It has been used everywhere: One of its most famous proponents was the iconic mid-century modern designer Massimo Vignelli, who famously used only a handful of typefaces throughout his career he considered Bodoni one of his six preferred typefaces. It’s a serif typeface, with sharp edges and straight lines that give it modern appeal. Bodoni, a serif font first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century, is an all-time classic font. Bodoni Modaīodoni Moda is a long overdue addition to Google Docs and Slides. But you don’t need to use it for coding-use it to give a boxy, geometric feel to an otherwise drab Google Doc or presentation. It’s a monospace font, so each letter or character takes up the same amount of space. The rounded rectangular shapes of JetBrains Mono is “made for the specific needs of developers,” according to its designers Philipp Nurullin and Konstantin Bulenkov.
This typeface looks like code, and that makes sense: It takes inspiration from it.
Comic Sans is considered a more legible font for dyslexic readers. Comic Neue’s child-like look could work nicely for younger audiences, but it could have practical benefits, too. The “squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape,” Google writes, while maintaining the fun that make many love Comic Sans (and love to hate it). (Its own designer calls it the “ the Justin Bieber of fonts.”) Comic Neue is its more sophisticated sibling. Google Fonts already has Comic Sans, one of the most widely mocked fonts on the Internet.
Your next shared Doc is about to get a lot spicier. Here are five of the most exciting new typefaces, showcasing a range of styles, from an updated love-to-hate font to a canonical typeface mid-century modernist Massimo Vignelli himself favored.
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Last week, Google added 60 new fonts to its catalog of free licensed font families for you to choose from in Docs and Slides with a tweet that basically said, “these fonts are here now!” There wasn’t much detail as to why Google added the fonts, but for anyone who grew tired of the 30 or so default font options available previously, the new offerings will make it much easier to customize Google Docs and Slides.
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