# Best fonts for formal personal letters...? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fonts-for-formal-personal-letters/340832 "2006-01-20T16:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fonts-for-formal-personal-letters/340832/21 "2006-01-23T18:41:52Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > In my office we’re required to use Trebuchet supposedly because it gives a “professional” look. I don’t like it much myself. That’s my favorite, because it looks handsome but \*not as \* professional as Times, etc. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fonts-for-formal-personal-letters/340832/22 "2006-01-23T20:25:44Z")
> [@e-logic](#): > > Thanks all - I like Georgia, looks great for the address header - and I’m gonna work through some of the others and see what comes out best 🙂 Unless you’ve got mad typography skillz, don’t mix two serif or sans-serif faces in the same document. If you use Georgia for the address, and Times for the body text, it looks like you ran out of one or the other. The effect can be subtle, but anyone who knows type will be laughing at you. That paragraph looks a bit odd? It should, since I mixed Georgia and Times in it. Mixing a serif and sans-serif face is just fine. There are countless books that have been set using something like Times for the text and Arial for section headers. Throw in Courier for things like computer commands or responses, and 99% of the time, you’ll find that you only really need two faces, plus that odd bit of computer-ese: **Data Entry** After entering your name and address, the computer should respond with Enter phone number \> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fonts-for-formal-personal-letters/340832.md?page=1)