

The guide is interactive – follow the instructions to move among the font sheets. Avoid using all capital letters and excessive italics or underlines. To reduce the reading load, select familiar sans serif fonts such as Arial or Calibri. It also has an matrix over view that links to all the font combos. For the step-by-step instructions on how to change fonts in PowerPoint go to Change the fonts in a presentation or Change the default font in PowerPoint.

The combos are divided into four groups: sans serif+sans serifs, sans serifs + serifs, serifs + serifs, serifs + sans serifs. This Presentitude™ guide gives you 74 font combos (headings + body. This Presentitude™ guide gives you an overview over these standard fonts, divided in three groups of font sheets: san serifs, serifs and script/display fonts. We have created two guides – a guide to the 44 safe fonts to use and a guide to 75 font combos (headings+body font) based on these safe fonts. So when creating templates for a large group of users, you should keep your presentation safe by choosing any of the 44 fonts that are most commonly installed* in different PowerPoint versions.

Mac versions of PowerPoint cannot use embedded fonts at all. And even if you choose to embed the font, you might not have the rights to distribute the font. Most fonts can’t be embedded in a template so they must be installed locally for anyone to use and see these fonts. However, when designing corporate presentations that need to travel outside the organization, using a unique font is risky, no matter how beautiful it is. A fonts is a visual statement just like a carefully chosen image and other graphic elements.
