Reply to: What font for your CV?

[wendigo100]

For the record I HATE COMIC SANS!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, avoid for the CV.

[andy]

verdana certainly looks nicer than arial

[Cactus]

Tahoma or Arial wins it for me. Althoguh Tahoma doesn't look that nice on the screen, but when printed it's very clear.

For the record I HATE COMIC SANS!!!!!!!!!!

[Board Game Geek]

The most widely-read document is a newspaper

Are you sure ?

I thought it was "Dear Homeowner, you could be in with a chance to win the Reader's Digest Lucky 2007 Super-Duper Lucky Draw...."

[Lucy]

Who mentioned newspapers?

Most CV reading is done online, and verdana is a sans-serif font which was designed to be easy to read on a screen. It is most popular with web designers for main text blocks.

You mentioned arial is for printed documents...

The most widely-read document is a newspaper.

[wendigo100]

Yes, as there are so many arial newspapers.

Who mentioned newspapers?

Most CV reading is done online, and verdana is a sans-serif font which was designed to be easy to read on a screen. It is most popular with web designers for main text blocks.

[Francko]

Nobody likes Verdana.... I see....

How about century gothic?

[Sysman]

Helvetica.

Purely because it's supposed to be easy to read.

If the IRS uses it for tax forms for the average Yank, I reckon agents shouldn't struggle too much with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

[NoddY]

Gill Sans

[TheOmegaMan]

Yes, as there are so many arial newspapers.

Arial is for washing machines - shouldn't you be getting on with that luv ?

[Lucy]

Arial is for printed docs.

Yes, as there are so many arial newspapers.

[darmstadt]

John Bull Printing Set

[Mordac]

MF has to use a big font so all the gigs he hasn't been sacked from will fill 2 pages.

[n5gooner]

I use Garamond so I can fit all the gigs I've done onto 2 pages.....

[Francko]

I have never had any complaints about my big font.

3 inches isn't that big, despite what your compassionate ex-gfs said.