My Signature Font

How do I choose?

I think the best font to describe myself is actually a combination of many. If I am writing a carefree, loosely - formatted document, such as something personal to keep on my laptop and not submit to a teacher, I like to use Calibri (Body). Calibri (Body) is a very simple text. It sort of resembles Arial, but it’s a little bit smaller and more compressed look in height. I like the way it is presented when laid out on a Microsoft document because it looks neat and clean, much like my handwriting. I recently used it on a power point presentation, too, and it looked very good from a distance and up close. I discovered Calibri (Body) when I got Microsoft Windows Vista on my computer a few months ago. It is the default font for Microsoft Word on Vista, so once I realized that I was stuck with it for each document I typed, at least until I changed it, it quickly grew on me. Now I actually choose to use it on certain pieces.

For more formal documents, such as a resume or an essay for a class, I like to use either Times New Roman or Arial. These represent me well because they sophisticated looking, clean cut, organized well, and easily legible, which is how I like my work to be, whether handwritten or typed. Both of these fonts are very standard, which is most suitable to my taste because like my avatar in Second Life is designed, the fonts use parallel with the way I live my life- simplistically- so naturally the things I design are going to reflect that trait. I do like change, though, so even though I keep things simple, I still alternate between fonts from to time, most often within the range of the ones i've mentioned in this piece.

In general, the font that I use in every document I produce on the computer reflects either a.) The type of document that I am producing, or b.) The mood I’m in as a result of what it is that I’m producing. If I’m doing something fun, like a power point presentation for a set of younger children, I might choose to use Comic Sans because it’s appropriate for the audience.

I hate to choose just one font that describes me best. I would say that my font depends most heavily on the type of audience that I’m addressing with my document. But, overall, when I can use Calibri (Body), I will use Calibri (Body) over any other font in the selection. My feelings and emotions when producing a document are usually reflected in the type of font I use. Although I might not be able to post, print, or hand in a document using that original reflection of my feelings, I always start out typing a document in what font I like and then I will change it to Times New Roman, or something else more appropriate.