Whoever decided Times New Roman was the default font for Word should come visit me. I’ve looked at fonts my whole life and this is not it for me. Goudy Old Style is almost an exact match for the major parts of our letterhead at work. I find that an acceptably pleasing font.
I like when Gs have an extra nib at the bottom.
I know you folks have an opinion.
I like Times New Roman. I’m an accountant.
That’s interesting that you would like it. I read a few articles and this was the most intriguing. The font in this article is difficult to read, how about that? There is even a tie in to Times New Roman and Yacht racing.
http://evolutionext.blogspot.com/2011/08/complicated-history-of-times-new-roman.html
Here is a quote from the article that probably is the basis for my annoyance with this font. “The success of the font is partly the same reasons that it was perfect for the Times. As Morison wrote, Times New Roman is not “wide open, generous and wide”, but “bigoted and narrow, medium and puritanical” focuses on practicality.”
Here’s a quiz to determine what font best represents you.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/quiz.html
Oddly enough, it said I was Times New Roman. The font I use most often is Arial.
I am Helvitica. I’m like the industry standard. Classic. Reliable. OK, maybe a bit boring. But I don’t let the haters get me down, after all, I still have plenty of friends who think I’m the best.
I’m not even going to say what my second option was. Shut up.
I can’t read that article. It looks like it’s been translated using Babelfish. Hardly any of the sentences make sense. Which is a bit of a shame for an article on a typeface, used for transmitting the written word.
Ha!
One of my customers decided it wanted to have Helvetica as its company font. That is to say, at a board meeting, one of the directors decided they ought to have a company font and recalled the name “helvetica” and imagined that it wasn’t too bad.
Trouble is, Helvetica is a proprietary font. It is copyrighted. If you are going to use it commercially, you have to pay. They took a hard hit, for a charity.
Then this year, another of my customers announced it was going to use Gill Sans as their company font. I told them, it’s copyright. If you really want to use that, you will have to pay. A lot! They changed their minds.
I took their damned quiz. It was crap. None of the answers to ANY of the questions suited me. It told my my appropriate font was Times Roman. Hogwash!
The font I tend to use for my personal letters is Bookman Oldface. Sometimes Century Schoolbook.
People don’t half talk a load of nonsense about typefaces. 
Well, that link was a surprise. I was expecting sheet music, figuring “The Scourge of Arial” was probably a slip jig in E dorian. I thought it might be a good one to use in a set with “The Humours of Sylfaen” and “The Bucks of Garamond.” 
It gave me Biergarten.
All I want is a efficient legible font. Times New Roman seems to fit the bill for dead tree print.
How does one find out if a font is under a restrictive/pay for use copyright?
The law in the U.S.A. is different.
Youse guys can use any font you like. In the U.K. you may have to stump up. Keep it on your own continent and there’s nothing to worry about.
Because Gill died in 1940, in most parts of the world the typeface became part of the public domain in 2010. In countries where typefaces are not copyrightable (like in the USA) this is not important but in other parts of the world this makes it possible to freely use the original design for any purposes, including creating digitised versions of the typeface. New digitized versions based on the original design may or may not have copyright protection (depending on the given country’s view on creative works, and whether they consider visually exact lookalikes “creative” or not), often possessing their own copyright terms.
The name “Gill Sans” is trademarked (No. 1340167 in the USA and No. 0950970 internationally, filed in 1983 by Monotype Corporation) and may not be used to describe the font created.
More here.
Verdana.
Absolutely. For day-to-day sans serif: Verdana, hands down. Not crowded, easy to read, readily available, and I like the way it paradoxically has serifs on the upper-case I, so you can distinguish it from lower-case l. (My work seems to involve a lot of acronyms with I in them. That’s an upper-case i, for those of you reading this in Arial or Helvetica.)
For something a bit more formal, I used to go to Century Schoolbook for legibility, but I’ve noticed some digital renderings that aren’t that good. At the moment, my serif font of choice is Palatino.
I had the same reaction when I attempted to read the article. The writer should have spent less time on the fine points of typeface and more time on English grammar, starting with “What is a sentence?”.
There are some clues as to the original language of the blogger: “Lagnan” for “Language”. “Minggu” for “Monday” (or whatever day of the week). My guess is it’s Tagalog, either that or Malay. But, yes, it looks like an artificial translation.
Verdana IS a nice typeface. 
Hrii Cthulu, Goka Font Ph’nglui!
Lovecraftian fonts revived…
And don’t even get me started on what passes for stating one’s case in it. Someone get Mutey a tourniquet, stat, 'cause he’s hemorrhaging street cred.
Comic Sans. I can’t figure out why everyone hates me.
Actually, I prefer Courier as I usually need fixed width.
I wonder how many guitarists pull their hair out when
they try to print chords off the Internet.
Arial is a poor knockoff of Helvetica.
Helvetica is ruined for me because it’s the font of the Internal Revenue Service. All tax forms and correspondence is in Helvetica.
We use Myriad at work. It’s a nice font. It’s the font that Germans use for highway signs.
I also like Garamond, either because of, or in spite of it being the font Apple uses for everything.
Vivaldi Script is beautiful for the right purpose.
I have an older collection of Ray Larabie’s fonts. A lot of fun stuff there. He has a new collection I see, and it’s free now, instead of whatever low rate I paid for it. Free for commercial use, too.
I have mostly gravel driveway cred.