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20 Best Fonts for Presentations In 2024 [PowerPoint or Not]

Written by: Chloe West

Choosing the best font for your presentation can mean the difference between an engaged audience and one that’s confused or distracted. A presentation font needs to be legible, agreeable, and not interfere with the content itself.

But choosing a font isn’t always straightforward.

To save you time and effort, we’ve selected 25 of the best fonts for presentations. This list will help you find the best font for your next presentation, whether you’re using PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote or any other tool to create it.

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Choose the font that you like from the list below and see when (and if) you should use it. And the best part? Each of these, and 500 more fonts are available for free in Visme's presentation maker .

Here's a short selection of 8 easy-to-edit Presentation templates you can edit, share and download with Visme. View more below:

26 Best Fonts for Presentations 

• Archivo Black
• Libre-Baskerville
• Abril Fatface
• League Spartan
• Playfair Display
• DM Serif Display
• Dela Gothic One

Presentation Font #1: Lato

We’ve all seen a million and two presentations using standard fonts like Arial and Times New Roman. Lato often serves as a default font choice in many cases. This sans-serif typeface offers a more contemporary appearance.

Plus, the variety of weights that Lato is available in – from thin to light to bold and more – helps to ramp up this font’s overall appeal.

This font can be used in a variety of different ways, as we’ll see in the presentation templates below.

In this presentation below, we see Lato used as the header font in each slide. It’s paired with a thicker serif font to create a nice balance between the two types of fonts.

Here’s another presentation example using Lato as the main header. Both of these examples are using Lato Light to create a more sleek and modern look in their slide decks.

However, as we see in the above presentation, Lato’s normal and bold weights work perfectly for offsetting the light in various headings and designs.

Lato is a modern and readable font, making it perfect for nearly any type of presentation. However, it works perfectly for conveying your professionalism in a pitch deck as well, like we’ve shown you in these examples.

Presentation Font #2: Roboto

Another great font to use in your presentations is Roboto. Roboto is yet another basic sans serif font that works across a variety of industries and types of presentations .

Roboto is a suitable font to use for your body text, like we see below in this presentation.

All of the main body paragraphs are easy to read in Roboto, as well as professional and well designed.

We see Roboto used again below in this presentation sharing workout apps.

Here, it’s also used as the main font for body copy within the presentation. This just goes to show that this font can be used for nearly any type of presentation as well as any industry.

Roboto also pairs well with many other fonts, whether a serif like Garamond, a sans serif like Gill Sans or a script like Pacifico.

Presentation Font #3: Bentham

Bentham is a stunning serif font that works perfectly as a header font in your business presentations . It’s easy to read and gives your presentation a more traditional look and feel.

We use the Bentham font in our simple presentation theme, as you can see below.

This font can be used as uppercase, title case or even lowercase, whatever fits in best with the rest of your design. In the simple presentation theme, we have over 300 different slide styles to help you put together a unique and beautiful presentation.

Bentham is a free font that you can easily access inside Visme when creating your presentation design. Add letter spacing to create a different effect on your slides.

Pair Bentham with a sans serif font for your body copy like Open Sans (that we’ll cover shortly) or Futura .

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Presentation Font #4: Fira Sans

Fira Sans is a stunning font that is incredibly versatile. In fact, you can utilize Fira Sans as both your header and body font, with another font in the mix to act only as an accent font.

See what we mean in this PowerPoint template below.

While Fira Sans is used in both normal and bold weights for the majority of the slide content, we see a nice serif thrown in as well to offset the single presentation font.

We can see Fira Sans used in multiple ways in this informational presentation template below as well.

This gorgeous sans serif font can be used in bold, italic, underline and more, giving you a wide variety of uses for this one font selection. Give it a try in your next presentation.

Presentation Font #5: Archivo Black

Archivo Black is a bold and strong font that looks powerful in all caps, like in the presentation example below. This font works perfectly on titles in both large and smaller sizes because it has a heavy presence.

In this presentation, Archivo Black is paired with Work Sans, a perfectly agreeable sans serif font that is easy to read in body text and captions.

When deciding what fonts to pair together, take a look at the Font Pairs collection in the left-hand toolbar of the Visme editor. In there, you’ll find hundreds of great pairings to use in your presentations.

Presentation Font #6: Montserrat

Montserrat is a big favorite of ours here at Visme given that a large majority of our own headings across our website are done in this font.

However, it’s one of the top font choices you can use as well for the headings on your PowerPoint slides.

Check out how we’ve used Montserrat as a header in this marketing plan presentation template.

It’s bold and helps your slide titles and headers to stand out to your audience, letting them know exactly what to expect each time you move to a new slide.

Here’s another example where we’ve used Montserrat, but this time we’ve used a thinner version in the header.

This versatile font almost looks like a completely different typeface when you switch up its weight, giving you even more flexibility for using it across your various presentations.

As you can see, Montserrat can be the font to choose when creating a marketing or business plan presentation as it’s both professional and visually appealing.

Montserrat also pairs well with a variety of different fonts. Try a thin sans serif for a nice contrast in your next PowerPoint.

Presentation Font #7:  Open Sans

Open Sans is a commonly used font for body paragraphs in your presentation slides due to its legibility. Because it’s a basic sans serif font, it’s the perfect way to visualize the larger pieces of text you might need to include on a slide.

Here’s a presentation template that showcases Open Sans as the main font for the body copy.

However, Open Sans shouldn’t be discounted as only a paragraph typeface. In fact, you can also use it in professional presentations to help your headings stand out clearly, increasing readability.

Take a look at this stock pitch presentation that uses Open Sans as the large font for the title and headings on each page. We used Open Sans in two different weights, creating a font pair that looks balanced and unique.

If you’re looking for the right font to ensure your presentation is easy to read and digest, Open Sans is a great choice.

Presentation Font #8: Dosis

Dosis is another go-to presentation font for any industry. It’s a fun sans serif font with rounded edges and tall, thin letters, giving it a more futuristic look.

Here’s an example of how an industry focused presentation can use Dosis in – a slide deck for a restaurant’s marketing plan.

In this example, Dosis is used in all caps on the title slide and in the headings on each slide. This template has added a unique design that incorporates a two-color composition that makes the font contrast with the background.

Below, we have another impressive presentation template using Dosis in a similar fashion. It’s paired here with sans serif font Source Sans Pro, providing a modern combination fit for a tech startup pitch deck.

Similarly, we see that Dosis works well in all caps and can be used in a variety of designs in order to make the text stand out that much more.

Presentation Font #9: Libre-Baskerville

Another quality PowerPoint font to consider using in your presentations is Libre-Baskerville. This is a Google font that you can use for free inside many presentation software , Visme included!

Libre-Baskerville is a serif font style that can be paired with a variety of other fonts and color schemes, creating a more traditional look and feel for your presentation.

We use Libre-Baskerville in all caps as headings in our Modern presentation theme. This theme has over 800 different slide designs so you can pick and choose the ones that work best for your presentation needs.

However, this font can also be used in body paragraphs just as easily, as it’s clear and legible and easy to read.

In the presentation template below, we’ve paired Libre-Baskerville with Josefin Sans in the header, creating a classic look and feel for any presentation deck .

Libre Baskerville is a timeless font choice that never goes out of style and adds a sleek touch to any presentation you need to create.

Presentation Font #10: Muli

Muli is a versatile font that looks professional in both headings and body copy. As a sans-serif font, it’s bottom-heavy, so it sits well on the line, giving a sense of control. Its roundness makes it friendly and easy to read.

This presentation uses Muli for the titles in a medium size and a lower size for small headings. The pairing of Muli with Lato works well with the colors and shapes in the rest of the design.

Presentation Font #11: Abril Fatface

If you’re looking for a bolder font that grabs attention, a slab serif like Abril Fatface might be just the font you’re looking for. This could pair nicely with a standard font like Helvetica or Verdana or a thinner serif like Georgia or Palatino.

Check out how we’ve incorporated this bold font into the headings of the below annual report presentation design.

Abril Fatface is a great font for creating eye-catching headlines on your slides, but should only be used with short headings or pieces of text. A bold font like this can be hard to read in paragraphs or longer sentences.

Look at how good this Abril Fatface looks on the 3rd slide of this presentation.

The presentation below also uses Abril Fatface for the headings on each slide. The font has so much personality that it looks beautiful on its own and placed over bold colors.

If you’re looking for a slab serif font alternative, use fonts like Rockwell or a bolded Trocchi in your next Visme or PowerPoint presentation .

You could even look into custom fonts from sites like DaFont and import them into your Visme brand kit .

Presentation Font #12:  KoHo

The next font on our list is KoHo, a unique sans serif font that can be used in more playful presentations. 

Whether you’re creating a presentation for school , a video presentation to play in your office or something else entirely, KoHo can be one of the best fonts to utilize.

We incorporated KoHo into our Creative presentation theme in the various headings of each slide.

This is another one of our massive presentation themes, offering hundreds of slide designs for you to choose from. However, as the name suggests, this one has a more creative and playful feel to it.

If you need to create a pitch deck for investors or a sales presentation for new clients, KoHo and the Creative theme might not be for you. 

However, if you’re embedding a slideshow onto your blog or sharing an informational presentation on SlideShare, KoHo could be a better suited choice to engage your audience.

Presentation Font #13: Helvetica 

Helvetica is a classic sans serif font that has a very loyal fanbase, and for good reason.

As seen most clearly in capitalized texts, the upper half of the texts are quite large when compared to other san serifs fonts. 

This allows the Helvetica fonts to have near-symmetrical proportionality when measuring the upper and lower portions of a text. These proportions make the identification of letters easier at a distance, like in the template example above. 

This fact makes Helvetica a great font to use for headers and titles in live presentations where there may be people “sitting in the back row ” and viewing your presentation from a distance. 

To clearly communicate your main points, be sure to use Helvetica as a bold text on headings and titles.

Presentation Font #14: Cormorant

Cormorant is a sleek and modern serif font.

We like to think of Cormorant as a good alternative for Times New Roman but with a moderate and tasteful change.

With a dynamic range of varying thicknesses, Cormorant appears to have a calligraphic feel and look while still maintaining a sense of professionalism.

While artistic and expressive, Cormorant is still fully legible and usable in a professional environment, as you can see in this presentation template.

Our recommendation is that you choose a font color that is a complementary color to the background. This helps separate the thin portions of the font from the background.

Should the variations in thickness prove too much for your taste, consider dialing back that expression by using Cormorant in its bold format. By thickening up the thinner lines, the variations are less noticeable and may be more suitable for a given context. 

Cormorant is a modern serif font that works well in titles, headings, subtitles for subpoints or paragraphs.

Presentation Font #15: Prompt

Prompt is a geometric sans serif font designed for Latin and Thai languages. Its geometric quality gives it a solid and stable feel that will give your presentation a unique look.

In this modern presentation example, Prompt appears in all titles and subheadings. It’s paired with Montserrat, another san serif with personality. These fonts together do look a bit similar to each other but balance each other out in terms of weight and thickness.

Choose this font specifically if you’re creating a presentation in Thai and need the words to be legible and well-balanced.

Presentation Font #16: League Spartan

League Spartan is a simple sans serif font, that is bold, uniform and minimalistic by nature and is great for headings and titles.

Because it's hefty even with the bold setting turned off, you may want to take extra precautions when using League Spartan for paragraphs or letter bodies. 

League Spartan works great as a header for infographics or cartoon-style presentations, like in the template above. 

The purpose of an infographic is to take difficult or complex information and turn it into easy-to-remember points. The reason that League Spartan works so well with infographics is its simplicity. 

To help set the overall tone of an infographic, you can use a simplified san serif font like League Spartan. A font like this will simplify an important or complex data point and make it feel easy to understand. 

Presentation Font #17: Poppins

Poppins is a versatile and linear san serif font. 

Poppins is linear because of its strong vertical terminals, which are the end of a stroke that is not a serif. This gives the font a sense of weight and vertical authority, making it great for strong, stand-out titles and headers.

Not only is Poppins a wonderful choice for titles and headers, but it also works well for titles, text bodies and subtitles, as you can see in our presentation template below. 

The linear and versatile aspects of Poppins has made this font a favorite in the business and professional world. It feels casual, yet is still very professional.

Presentation Font #18: Playfair Display

What can we say about Playfair Display, other than it’s an incredibly chic and fashionable serif font. 

This font has a strong box feel as most of the characters stay between the baseline and X-height. This means that most of the letters do not dip far below the line, nor do they rise above most of the other letters.

This makes Playfair Display an excellent choice for strong titles and headers, as you can see in our presentation template below.

Many fonts that go after the “box look” fail at being legible from a distance. 

To avoid this problem and make the letters more pronounced, Playfair Display uses a variety of thicknesses in the stem of their letters when compared to the arms and other extensions. 

Playfair display is a classy and elegant font designed to be used as headers or titles. While it can still be used in paragraphs, you may want to limit its usage to shorter portions of your text.

Similarly sized and spaced words written in this style can be disorienting for some readers. So instead, consider using Playfair Display as a font for titles, quotes or various subtitles in your presentation.

Presentation Font #19: Raleway

Raleway is a modern sans serif font that was originally designed to be used as a lightweight font. But after its release and by popular demand, Raleway was given heavier and italicized versions for its fans to use. 

The bold and light versions of this font are extremely versatile and can be used anywhere from bold headers to lighter parts of the body in your presentations, as you can see in our presentation template below.

The italicized version of Raleway has slightly off-centered bowls and shoulders in certain letters. This means that the markings that are not the stem are purposefully written higher or lower than normal. 

This is a subtle artistic flair that does not influence readability. Some people find that swashes actually help increase legibility with these off-centered markings. 

Presentation Font #20: Otama

This type of font pairs well with a solid sans serif like Lato Light. In this presentation example, Otama and Lato Light in all caps work together to create a professional design that stands out and makes a statement.

Presentation Font #21: Lora

Lora is a unique serif font that was made in a contemporary style. 

Drawing its inspiration from calligraphy and traditional fonts, Lora is an excellent balance between an artistic and professional font. 

Lora has very pronounced arches leaping away from the stem of each letter. This gives the font family a more “bubbly” feel to it, while still maintaining a sense of clean professionalism.

To unleash Lora’s true artistic nature, you’ll want to turn on the italics. When italics mode is activated, each letter receives additional swashes, giving it a more hand-written feel.

If you add weight to its default thickness, Lora works well for both titles and headers and when set to its default settings, Lora truly shines as a font in paragraphs and bodies, as you can see in our presentation template below.

Presentation Font #22: Inter

You can use Inter in different weights throughout a presentation or pair it with a versatile font like Lato Light to give the composition a bit of visual variety. The presentation example below uses Inter in mixed-case and Lato Light in all-caps for headings and mixed-case for body text.

Presentation Font #23: Noto Sans

Noto Sans is a basic sans serif font that makes for a great presentation font. Clean and easy to read, it can be used in a variety of different ways from slide to slide.

Take a look at this presentation template below. The main font used throughout the headers and content is Noto Sans, creating a clean and cohesive presentation design.

The above presentation template also uses a script font for the author name on the first slide as well as another sans serif font (Poppins) for some body content.

Having a nice mixture between the two ensures the presentation isn't boring—but it's still clean and uncluttered. Poppins is another font on this list. Try mixing 2-3 different fonts from our recommended fonts to create a stunning presentation design.

Presentation Font #24: Heebo

Heebo is one of the more unique sans serif fonts on our list, but it works perfectly for presentation slide headers. As a thin, tall font, it works better in a larger size than it would for content.

Take a look at how we've used Heebo in this presentation template below. It remains in an all-caps format, typically for headers from slide to slide.

We've also creatively used the font by juxtaposing it atop purple squares, helping to create a design element out of text. Consider how you can do the same thing in your presentations.

Presentation Font #25: DM Serif Display

Our next top font is a beautifully bold serif font. DM Serif Display is a perfect header font for a more traditional presentation design. Serifs tend to seem more old-fashioned, so keep that in mind when creating your next presentation. Maybe a serif will best fit with your audience.

Take a look at this template below to see DM Serif Display in action.

In the above presentation, we've paired this bold serif font with a nice thin sans serif to pull the design together. Sometimes opposites attract and help you to create a beautiful presentation design that your audience will love.

Presentation Font #26: Dela Gothic One

Dela Gothic One is a thick and chunky font with a strong feel. It’s ideal for headings on posters, packaging and in titles on presentations. This font has a lot of power and is best paired with a simple sans serif font or even a classic serif like Garamond for body copy.

For a bolder outcome, use Dela Gothic One in all caps, like we did in the presentation example below. Each slide includes a strong title in Dela Gothic One in a color that contrasts with the background.

Ready to Create Your Next Presentation?

When it comes to fonts for PowerPoint (or any other presentation platform), there are so many options to choose from that it can get overwhelming. But selecting fonts doesn't need to stress you out. Stick to the ones in this list and you’re sure to have a winner.

Whether you use Microsoft PowerPoint , Apple Keynote or Visme, each of these presentation fonts can really bring the best out of your presentation. 

If you want to get even more out of your presentation design and have access to top notch animation, transition and interactivity capabilities, sign up for Visme's free presentation maker today .

If you're racing against the clock, take advantage of Visme’s AI features, like the AI Presentation Maker which takes a text prompt and turns it into a fully designed presentation draft.

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Chloe West is the content marketing manager at Visme. Her experience in digital marketing includes everything from social media, blogging, email marketing to graphic design, strategy creation and implementation, and more. During her spare time, she enjoys exploring her home city of Charleston with her son.

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The 33 Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

• BY Bogdan Sandu
• 7 February 2024

Picture this: You’ve crafted the most compelling PowerPoint, your content’s pure gold. But wait, does your font scream snooze fest or radiate confidence?  That’s where I step in .

Slide design  isn’t just about pretty visuals; it’s the fine print too. Think about it, the  legibility ,  typography , and  sans-serif charm  that could make or break your presentation. We’re diving into a world where  Arial  isn’t the alpha, and  Calibri  has companions.

By the end of this deep-dive, you’ll be armed with  examples of the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations . Fonts that won’t just hold your audience’s gaze but glue it to the screen.

From  PowerPoint font styles  to mastering the  visual hierarchy in slides , I’ve got your back. We’re talking  readability , professionalism, and those oh-so-subtle nuances of  typeface selection .

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What Are the Best Fonts to Use in PowerPoint PPT Presentations? (Complete 2024 Guide)

If you're giving a PowerPoint presentation, you've got many design decisions to make. One of those decisions is choosing the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations . Typography sets the tone for your presentation and is instrumental in presenting your content.

If you're wondering, " what is the best font for PowerPoint presentations ?" we'll answer that question in this tutorial. We'll survey the best font for PowerPoint designs but leave plenty of room for creative choice.

We'll discuss the best font size and type for PowerPoint presentations. Learn how you can use them to your advantage. You might be surprised how many PowerPoint font options exist. 

Choose the Right Fonts for PowerPoint (Quickstart Guide)

Are you looking for the best PowerPoint fonts, but aren't quite sure how to make the choice? The video below will help you make the choice.

To learn even more about fonts for PowerPoint and other presentations, continue reading the tutorial below.

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Fonts for PowerPoint can take many forms. And with thousands of PowerPoint font options, it can be really hard to decide.

What style is right? How should you steer your PPT best font decisions? In this section, I’ll share some quick tips to help you choose the best PowerPoint font for you.

1. Understand the Types of Fonts

When you're choosing the best font for PowerPoint slides, it's key to learn some ground rules of style. And it helps to understand the basic types of fonts that you can choose from. In this section, we'll discuss popular font styles:

First, let's cover serif fonts. Serif fonts, PowerPoint presentation or not, have a more classic feel to them. Serif fonts have brush strokes on the edges of the letters, sometimes called "feet."  These edge strokes are called the serifs. The popular system-installed serif fonts include Garamond, Georgia, and Times New Roman. They can definitely serve as some of the best fonts for presentations.

In 2024, the best font for PowerPoint presentations are sans-serif fonts. These are the modern and smooth typefaces that you'll find in most presentations. Sans means "without," so it's only natural that these fonts lack the edge strokes. The result is smooth, rounded fonts that are popular in modern design.

These two simple categories are useful to describe most fonts. But other choices might be the best font for your PowerPoint presentation. Script and decorative fonts are other unique options. 

They may be right for special purpose presentations.

What is the best font for PowerPoint presentations? The answer is, "it depends." As always, let the content drive your design decisions. But as a general rule, sticking to serif and sans-serif designs helps you stay stylish. And you won't lose the focus of your audience by having text that's too hard to read. 

Formal presentations in ideal environments should opt for serif options. But most presentations should typically use sans-serif fonts. Those decorative PowerPoint options should be used sparingly at most.

2. Choose Font Sizes for Your PowerPoint Presentation

For the best use of PowerPoint fonts, it's crucial to consider your choice of font size. Many PowerPoint users will ask, " what is a good font size for PowerPoint presentations? " In reality, you should vary your font size based on the content that you're presenting. Headlines should always be larger than the supporting points, for example.

My rule of thumb for PowerPoint fonts is to use a size 32 or larger for headlines, with 24 or larger for supporting points. Go much smaller than that, and you're entering "only readable for print outs" territory. 

Font size goes hand-in-hand with the principle of "less is more" on your PowerPoint slides. When you don't have to cram tons of content onto your slide, you can use larger font sizes.

3. Use Font Pairings

Many graphic designers use more than one font when building PowerPoint presentations. Using more than a few fonts is over the top but combining two complementary font choices is a pro design move.

This practice is an art called  font pairing.  The best font for PowerPoint might actually be a  combination  of fonts.

One idea for a font pairing is to use a sophisticated serif font for headlines and titles. Then, use sans-serif fonts for the majority of the body points. This gives you the PPT best font for both kinds of text.

If you use a free font resource like Google Fonts , you'll see pairing suggestions that help you combine fonts that work together well. The key to font pairing is to use the alternate font choices consistently. For example, always reserve headlines for one font in your selection.

4. Select Color and Contrast in Your Font for PowerPoint

Beyond size, style, and pairings, one element of font choice that you can't avoid is color and contrast. You can choose the perfect font and format it correctly, but clashing color schemes disrupt slides.

Keep three essential tips in mind when considering font color and contrast:

• Create contrast . Contrast is important so that your text stands out on the slide and is easy to read. Don't use a dark grey font on a black background, for example. Ensuring proper contrast will make the important content stand out.
• Consider accessibility . Colorblindness is surprisingly common. It's likely that a member of your audience has some form of it and will experience your slides differently. Make sure to choose color schemes that don't interfere with their experience.
• Use colors that fit the scheme . Make sure that you consistently use font colors that are part of your branding guide. Use the color swatches to ensure no variation from one slide to the next.

It’s key to use the best font for presentations to ensure your slides are accessible to everyone. Learn more below:

5. Use Creative Text Effects

So far, we've covered font choice, including style, size, and pairings. We’ve already looked at how to put the best font for PowerPoint onto your slides. But now, you might be wondering about how to be more creative with your style and design.

PowerPoint has plenty of effects to ensure that your text doesn't go unnoticed. You can add animations, shadows, and more. These text effects make your PowerPoint font choices more lively and fun.

The tutorial below is a complete guide to working with text in PowerPoint. Check it out to learn more about adding text as well as advanced effects to make the most of your content:

6. Understand the Power of Custom Fonts

Sure, every device includes standard fonts to choose from. But they're not the best font for PowerPoint designs! When you want to really set your slides apart, consider using custom PowerPoint fonts. These are sleek designs that your audience may have never seen.

Above, I've shared screenshots with custom fonts from Envato Elements. With an Elements subscription , you'll enjoy thousands of custom PowerPoint fonts . You can use each of them in your next presentation. 

Elements includes access to fonts across every category that we highlighted above. They're some of the best font for PowerPoint options. Elements' library has PowerPoint font options that you won't find anywhere else! 

After you discover the best font for presentations, you'll need to add it to PowerPoint. To learn how to install PowerPoint fonts, check out the quick screencast lesson below:

Ready to see options for the best font for presentations?  Now that we’ve covered how to choose the right fonts for your presentation, here are the best fonts to use for your PPT presentations in 2024: 

Calibri is a modern sans-serif font that comes in several weights. It’s a perfect choice for the body text of your presentation.

2. Palatino Linotype

Here’s another stylish serif font that makes a great choice for headings or quote slides in your presentations. 

Roboto features geometric forms with friendly and open curves. It's a modern and clean look that makes it a good choice for your body text.

4. RNS Sanz

With seven weights ranging from Light to Black and small caps, the RNS Sanz is a great choice for any type of presentation. 

5. Playfair Display

Give any presentation a sophisticated and elegant look by using Playfair Display for the headings or quote slides.

6. CA Texteron

The CA Texteron font is a modern serif font with high legibility. Use it for both headings and body text for your presentation. 

Lato has an elegant yet friendly look and feel. It’s a great choice for your body text and a true workhorse as it features multiple weights ranging from thin to black. 

The Arthura font is a premium sans-serif font with a humanist warmth and simple geometric forms. It's one of the best PowerPoint fonts for body copy.

Once you've selected your font for presentation designs, it's time to get to work.  But the best font for PowerPoint slides is just part of the process. Here, we'll show you five key steps to PPT change all fonts options.

We'll demonstrate with the premium Brusher PowerPoint Template from Envato Elements. It's compatible with all of the fonts for PowerPoint techniques you'll see. Download it now to follow along.

1. Choose Your Slides

The first step is to select the slides you’re going to use in your presentation. To do this, switch to Slide Sorter under the View tab.

Then hold Shift and click the slides you don’t want to use. Finally, right-click and select Delete Slide to remove them from the presentation.

2. Add Your Text

To add your content to the presentation, double-click on a text area. Press CTRL+A to select all the text and then start typing in your own content.

3. Change the Body Font

After you've added your content, it’s time to customize the fonts. Start by selecting your body text. Then, in the Home tab, click on the font drop-down menu and select the font you want to use. In this example, I’m using the Calibri font for the body text.

4. Change the Heading Font

To add more flair to your presentation, customize the heading font as well. You can opt for a completely different font or simply use a different weight from the font you used for body text. In this example, I’ve opted to use Palatino Linotype for my headings.

5. Adjust the Font Styles

Lastly, don’t forget to customize the font styles. For example, both Calibri and Palatino Linotype offer different font weights. I’ve chosen to use Calibri Regular for body font and Palatino Linotype Bold for headings.

Aside from weight, you can also customize the font size and even assign a different color to your headings to make them stand out more.

Need help choosing the best PowerPoint fonts? My top recommendation is to use a template that already has the fonts selected. If you can cut the hard work of choosing the best PowerPoint font, you can re-focus on presentation content.

Once again, Envato Elements is your answer. As a member, you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of custom PowerPoint templates . Many have the best PowerPoint font designs already built in. And of course, Elements has thousands of custom fonts , too!

Find PowerPoint Templates

When you use custom PowerPoint templates, you outsource the design work. The challenge of choosing the best font for PowerPoint presentations is left to creative designers. They've already built slides that feature good font choices for presentations. Just fill them in with your content, and you'll be finished in no time.

In this section, you'll see templates with the best font for PowerPoint presentations. All are included with a subscription to Elements, the creative service you saw above.

1. Agio PowerPoint Presentation

Agio uses smooth sans-serif font choices throughout. These are among the best fonts for PowerPoint options, since they're extra crisp and clear. 

Nine color schemes are used, each of which is already set up with color-coordinated text. It's an example of using fonts that highlight the content, while staying stylish. Keep Agio in mind as a template with good fonts for presentations PowerPoint.

2. Fashioned Stylist PowerPoint

The Fashioned presentation template also uses popular sans-serif choices. But it also uses variations on typography for an impact.

Notice that many of these slides in the preview use all-caps strings of text to add emphasis to slides. It's a great example of using text effects to enhance slides with bold design.

3. Brutto Real Estate PowerPoint Template

With a major focus on serif fonts, it's no wonder why this template is an ideal fit for the traditional world of real estate. Serif fonts have a classic feel to them, and this template illustrates that perfectly.

This template also features many infographic and business-centric slides. They're perfect for showcasing your business concept. 

4. Brusher PowerPoint Template

Brusher's 120 slides use popular PPT font options that are included for free. It also has modern, custom image masks that can enhance your images. The starkly contrasting black and white color scheme is an excellent example of font contrast. Use Brusher to build a presentation with balanced typography in no time.

We’ve looked at some of the best font for presentation designs for 2024. But you may have some other questions. What else can you do with the best font for presentations? How can PowerPoint work better for you? Here, we’ve gathered answers to five of these common questions.

1. Can I Wrap Text in PowerPoint?

Yes! The best fonts for presentations can be featured as wrapped text. Or you can even curve the text! This adds a cool, dramatic effect very easily. Learn how to do it here:

2. How Do I Animate the Best PowerPoint Fonts?

The Animations tab in PowerPoint is really your best friend here. On it, you can add sleek animation effects.

What’s more: these work with all of your PPT best font favorites . You can even PPT change all fonts to be animated in order to maintain a steady look and feel across your slide deck.

Turn to our full guide for more details:

3. Is a PowerPoint Font Able to Be a Word Cloud Design?

Absolutely. A font for presentation use is perfect for building a PPT word cloud. Word clouds are visuals with words shown in an array of colors, layouts, and sizes.

You can even leverage the best font for presentations in word clouds. These are sure to make an impact. They help you illustrate ideas, and they’re easy to make with your best PowerPoint font choice. Learn more:

4. How Do I Highlight the Best Font for Presentations?

Sometimes, even the best font for PowerPoint needs some help standing out. That’s where highlighting comes in. When you highlight your PPT best font, you’ll see it shaded in a new color of your choice.

The Text Highlight Color button on the home tab controls this. Learn more about it in our highlighting tutorial for PowerPoint:

5. Can I Add Superscripts to Fonts for PowerPoint?

Yes, easily! Superscripts are small numbers that sit above the rest of your text. They’re most commonly used for citations in PowerPoint. Again, they’re quick to add using your favorite font for presentation options. 

Learn how to do it in just sixty seconds here:

Choosing the best font for a PowerPoint presentation is just one part of designing your next slide deck. PowerPoint has so many features that it can be overwhelming to know where to start. But don't worry—PowerPoint can be mastered just like any other app.

If you're still learning PowerPoint, we've got you covered with many helpful resources. The single best starting point is How to Use PowerPoint (Ultimate Tutorial Guide.) This single resource is loaded with tutorials that you can use to improve every aspect of your presentation.

The best fonts for presentations are more powerful with the help of learning resources. For more templates and guides that include PowerPoint design tips, check out the tutorials below:

Typography is a huge part of setting the style of your presentation. The tips in this round-up are helpful to choose custom fonts that fit with your presentation's style. 

Remember to choose a font style (serif or sans-serif) that matches your presentation's tone. Also, use font sizes and weights to bring emphasis to the most essential parts of your presentation.

Turn to Envato Elements for the best PowerPoint font designs available today. With thousands to choose from , it’s easy to find a winning PPT best font for you. And remember to pair it with a stunning best PowerPoint font template , with slide layouts hand-crafted for you.

Get started on your next presentation today. Choose and download your favorite template.

Editorial Note: This post was originally published in June of 2019. It's been revised to make it current, accurate, and up to date by our staff—with special help from Brenda Barron and Andrew Childress . A video has been added by Andrew Childress.

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14 Fonts That Make Your PowerPoint Presentations Stand Out

Presentation fonts, more generally known as typography , are one of the most neglected areas of presentation design .

That’s because when presentation fonts are used appropriately and correctly, they blend so well with the overall design that your audience doesn’t even notice it. Yet, when your font usage is lacking, this sticks out like a sore thumb. 

Over 30 million PowerPoint presentations are made daily. Therefore, when it comes to creating your own slide decks, you need to take every advantage you can get to make it stand out. Among other design choices, choosing the best fonts for presentations can provide a huge impact with minimal effort.

In fact, it’s one of the reasons why Steve Jobs was able to turn Apple into the brand it is today. His expertise in branding and design was fueled by the Calligraphy classes that he attended in his early years. This allowed him to find the best font family that accentuated his company’s brand and identity.

So no matter the subject of your PowerPoint presentation, the best font or font family will help you create a lasting impression and convey a powerful message. To help you shine through your next slideshow, here’s our cultivated list of the best fonts for presentations.

If you want to create a PowerPoint presentation but don’t have access to PowerPoint itself, you can use Piktochart’s presentation maker to create a presentation or slide deck and export it as a .ppt file.

Best Fonts for Presentations and PowerPoint

Before we proceed, you should know some basics of typography, especially the difference between Serif, Sans Serif, Script, and Decorative types of fonts. 

Serif Fonts

These are classic fonts recognizable by an additional foot (or tail) where each letter ends. Well-known Serif fonts include:

• Times New Roman
• Century 

Sans Serif Fonts

Differing from the Serif font style, Sans Serif fonts do not have a tail. The most popular Sans Serif font used in presentations is Arial, but other commonly employed renditions of Sans Serif typeface include:

• Century Gothic
• Lucida Sans

Script and Decorative Fonts

These are the fonts that emulate handwriting—not typed with a keyboard or typewriter. Script typefaces and decorative or custom fonts for PowerPoint vary immensely and can be created by a graphic designer to ensure these custom fonts are bespoke to your company/brand.

With these font fundamentals explained, you can also keep up-to-date with the popularity of such fonts using Google’s free font analytics tool here . Let’s now go ahead with our list of the best presentation fonts for your PowerPoint slides. 

• Libre-Baskerville

Keep in mind that you don’t have to stick with only a single font for your slides. You could choose two of the best fonts for your presentation, one for your headings and another for the copy in the body of the slides.

Without further ado, let’s dive into the 14 best presentation fonts.

1. Helvetica

Helvetica is a basic Sans Serif font with a loyal user base. Originally created in 1957 , Helvetica comes from the Latin word for ‘Switzerland’ where it was born. When you use Helvetica, the top-half part of the text is bigger than in other Sans Serif fonts. For this reason, letters and numbers have a balanced proportionality between the top and bottom segments. As a result, this standard font makes it easier to identify characters from a distance.

As a result of being one of the easiest typecases to read compared to different presentation fonts, Helvetica is great for communicating major points as titles and subheadings in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

For these reasons, Helvetica is a popular choice for anyone creating posters .

If you are presenting live to a large group of people, Helvetica is your new go-to font! The classic Sans Serif font is tried and tested and ensures the legibility of your slide deck, even for the audience members sitting at the very back. Though it looks good in any form, you can make Helvetica shine even more in a bold font style or all caps. 

Futura is one of the popular Sans Serif fonts and is based on geometric shapes. Its features are based on uncomplicated shapes like circles, triangles, and rectangles. In other words , it mimics clean and precise proportions instead of replicating organic script or handwriting. Futura is a great default font for presentations because of its excellent readability, elegance, and lively personality. 

As one of many standard fonts designed to invoke a sense of efficiency and progress, Futura is best employed when you want to project a modern look and feel in your presentation. Futura is a versatile option ideal for use in both titles and body content, accounting for why it has remained immensely popular since 1927. 

3. Rockwell

The Rockwell font has strong yet warm characters that make it suitable for a variety of presentation types, regardless of whether it’s used in headings or the body text. However, best practice dictates that this standard font should be used in headers and subheadings based on its geometric style. Rockwell is a Geometric Slab Serif , otherwise known as a slab serif font alternative. It is formed almost completely of straight lines, flawless circles, and sharp angles. This Roman font features a tall x-height and even stroke width that provides its strong presence with a somewhat blocky feel.

Monoline and geometric, Rockwell is a beautiful font that can display any text in a way that looks impactful and important. Whether you want to set a mood or announce a critical update or event, you can’t go wrong with this robust font.

Verdana is easily a great choice as one of the top PowerPoint presentation fonts. Its tall lowercase letters and wide spaces contribute significantly towards boosting slide readability even when the text case or font size is small. That’s why Verdana is best for references, citations, footnotes, disclaimers, and so on. Additionally, it can also be used as a body font to extrapolate on slide headings to nail down your key points.

Besides that, it is one of the most widely available fonts, compatible with both Mac and Windows systems. This makes this modern Sans Serif font a safe bet for when you are not certain where and how will you be delivering your presentation. 

Raleway is a modern and lightweight Sans Serif font. Its italicized version has shoulders and bowls in some letters that are a bit off-centered. What this means is that the markings excluding the stem are intentionally lower or higher as compared to other fonts. 

This gives Raleway a slightly artistic look and feels without impacting its readability (and without falling into the custom or decorative fonts category). In fact, many professionals think the swashes and markings actually enhance the font’s readability and legibility. Moreover, Raleway also has a bold version which is heavily used in presentations and slide decks. 

The bottom line is that Raleway is a versatile typeface that can be used in a variety of presentations, either in the body copy or in titles and subheadings. When the titles are capitalized or formatted as bold, captivating your audience becomes a breeze. 

6. Montserrat

Montserrat is one of our favorite PowerPoint fonts for presentation titles and subheadings. The modern serif font is bold, professional, and visually appealing for when you want your headers and titles to really capture the audience’s attention.

Every time you move to the next slide, the viewers will see the headings and instantly understand its core message.  

Another major quality of the Montserrat font is its adaptability and versatility. Even a small change, such as switching up the weight, gives you an entirely different-looking typeface. So you get enough flexibility to be able to use the font in all types of PowerPoint presentations.

Montserrat pairs nicely with a wide range of other fonts. For example, using it with a thin Sans Serif in body paragraphs creates a beautiful contrast in your PowerPoint slides. For this reason, it is usually the first modern Serif font choice of those creating a business plan or marketing presentation in MS PowerPoint. 

Roboto is a simple sans-serif font that is a good fit for PowerPoint presentations in a wide range of industries. Well-designed and professional, Roboto works especially well when used for body text, making your paragraphs easy to read.

Roboto combines beautifully with several other fonts. When you’re using Roboto for body text, you can have headings and titles that use a script font such as Pacifico, a serif font such as Garamond, or a Sans Serif font such as Gill Sans. 

Bentham is a radiant serif font perfectly suited for headings and subtitles in your PowerPoint slides. It gives your presentation a traditional appearance, and its letter spacing makes your content really easy to read.

You can use this font in uppercase, lowercase, or title case, depending on how it blends with the rest of your slide. For best results, we recommend combining Bentham with a Sans Serif font in your body content. For example, you can use a font such as Open Sans or Futura for the rest of your slide content.

9. Libre-Baskerville

Libre-Baskerville is a free serif Google font. You can pair this classic font with several other fonts to make a PowerPoint presentation with a traditional design. 

One of its best features is that it works equally well in both headings and body copy. It’s clear and easily readable, no matter how you use it. And when used for headings, it works really well in uppercase form. 

Tahoma is one of the fonts that offer the best level of clarity for PowerPoint slides. It has easily distinguishable characters like Verdana, but with the exception of tight spacing to give a more formal appearance.

Designed particularly for screens, Tahoma looks readable on a variety of screen sizes and multiple devices. In fact, this significant aspect is what makes Tahoma stand out from other fonts in the Sans Serif family. 

11. Poppins

Poppins falls within the Sans Serif font category but is a different font of its own uniqueness. The solid vertical terminals make it look strong and authoritative. That’s why it’s great for catchy titles and subheadings, as well as for the body paragraphs. Poppins is a geometric typeface issued by Indian Type Foundry in 2014. It was released as open-source and is available in many font sizes for free on Google Fonts.

When you want something that feels casual and professional in equal measure, pick Poppins should be in the running for the best PowerPoint fonts. 

12. Gill Sans 

Gill Sans is another classic presentation font for when you’re looking to build rapport with your audience. Gill Sans is a friendly and warm Sans Serif font similar to Helvetica. At the same time, it looks strong and professional. 

It’s designed to be easy to read even when used in small sizes or viewed from afar. For this reason, it’s a superior match for headers, and one of the best PowerPoint fonts, especially when combined with body text using Times New Roman or Georgia (not to mention several other fonts you can pair it with for successful results). This is the right font for combing different fonts within a presentation.

13. Palatino

Palatino can be classified as one of the oldest fonts inspired by calligraphic works of the 1940s. This old-style serif typeface was designed by Hermann Zapf and originally released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry. It features smooth lines and spacious counters, giving it an air of elegance and class. 

Palatino was designed to be used for headlines in print media and advertising that need to be viewable from a distance. This attribute makes Palatino a great font suitable for today’s PowerPoint presentations.   

Palatino is also a viable choice for your presentation’s body text. It’s a little different from fonts typically used for body paragraphs. So it can make your presentation content stand out from those using conventional fonts. 

14. Georgia

Georgia typeface has a modern design that few fonts can match for its graceful look. It’s similar to Times New Roman but with slightly larger characters. Even in small font size, Georgia exudes a sense of friendliness; a sense of intimacy many would claim has been eroded from Times New Roman through its overuse. This versatile font was designed by Matthew Carter , who has successfully composed such a typeface family which incorporates high legibility with personality and charisma. Its strokes form Serif characters with ample spacing, making it easily readable even in small sizes and low-resolution screens. 

Another benefit of using this modern font is its enhanced visibility, even when it’s used in the background of your PowerPoint slides. Moreover, the tall lowercase letters contribute to a classic appearance great for any PowerPoint presentation.  

Final Step: Choosing Your Best Font for Presentations

Choosing the right PowerPoint fonts for your future presentations is more of a creative exercise than a scientific one. Unless you need to abide by strict branding guidelines and company policies, there are no rules for the ‘best font’ set in stone. Plus, presentation fonts depend entirely on the environment or audience it is intended for, the nature and format of the project, and the topic of your PowerPoint presentation. 

However, there are certain basic principles rooted in typography that can help you narrow down the evergrowing list of available PowerPoint presentation fonts and choose PowerPoint fonts that will resonate with and have a powerful impact on your target audience.

As discussed in this article, these include font factors such as compatibility with most systems, clarity from a distance, letter spacing, and so on. Luckily for you, our carefully researched and compiled list of best fonts for presentations above was created with these core fundamentals already in mind, saving you time and hassle.

As long as you adopt these best practices for standard fonts without overcomplicating your key message and takeaways, you’ll soon be on your way to designing a brilliant slide deck using a quality PowerPoint font or font family! From all of us here at Piktochart, good luck with your new and improved presentation slides that will surely shine!

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The 24 Most Professional Fonts to Use

Stuart Crawford

Selecting the right font is an important design choice that can enhance—or detract from—the professionalism of a document. With thousands of fonts to choose from, the possibilities may seem endless. However, not all fonts are well-suited for professional business communications and documents.

This comprehensive guide explores the 24 most professional fonts to create polished, credible business documents that leave a positive impression. We analyse characteristics like readability, legibility, clarity, formality, visual appeal, and versatility to determine which fonts will top for professional use cases in 2024.

A Serif Sensation: Traditional Serif Fonts Offer Readability & Polish

1. times new roman.

This quintessential serif font designed for the New York Times newspaper 1931 remains a staple choice to exude professionalism. The fluid serifs and sturdy letterforms allow Times New Roman to be readable in print. The versatile design also displays well digitally. This font suggests the competence and trustworthiness key for professional communications.

Designed by Matthew Carter in 1993, this serif typeface contains thick, bracketed serifs for enhanced readability. Slightly wider letter proportion compared to Times New Roman improves clarity while maintaining a highly legible 11-point font size. The chunky, semi-bold weight is warm and refined for formal business uses.

3. Bookman Old Style

This classic, versatile serif face echoes Old Style typefaces used in publishing from the mid-1500s into the 1900s. Designed in 1884 by Alexander Lawson for the Century Schoolbook , the slightly condensed letterforms offer a more compact footprint without compressing readability. The sturdy serifs, graceful curves and horizontal stress suggest Old World heritage, perfect for adding gravitas to professional communications.

Key Takeaway: Traditional serif fonts like Times New Roman, Georgia and Bookman Old Style offer proven readability and polish well-suited for formal business documents.

Distinctive & Dignified: Transitional Serifs Bridge Generations

4. baskerville.

This refined, stately serif face designed by John Baskerville in 1757 defined transitional serif styles, forging a bridge from Old Style to modern looks. The crisp edges offer exceptional clarity, while distinctive ball terminals on letter curves add flair. Baskerville brings heritage elegance to contemporary professional settings, from resumes to reports.

5. New Baskerville

Released in 1917, this refreshed Baskerville interpretation by designer George W. Jones is often preferred for clarity on screens and modern printing presses. The slightly thicker strokes offer a bolder definition without compromising legibility. Pair with Georgia for font contrast that delivers professional polish.

6. Times Ten

Photosetting provider Linotype released this updated take on Times New Roman in 1990 to improve output on low-resolution printers and poor-quality paper stock. Subtle changes like shortened ascenders and descenders optimise modern legibility without forfeiting professional persona. The economical proportions also save space.

Key Takeaway: Transitional serif typefaces like Baskerville, New Baskerville and Times Ten marry historical richness with sharp digital display for today’s professional contexts.

Modern Serifs Marry Heritage With Contemporary Flair

Created by renowned German typographer Jan Tschichold in 1964, Sabon draws inspiration from classic Garamond designs but optimises for modern requirements. The Roman letterforms offer exceptional clarity and even texture suitable for continuous business reading—an excellent choice to communicate expertise.

8. ITC Legacy Serif

This 1993 serif release from the International Typeface Corporation retains Times New Roman’s professional personality but exhibits tighter spacing and finer hairlines for improved modern display. The condensed proportions occupy less real estate, allowing more content presentation.

9. Merriweather

Designed by Eben Sorkin in 2010 for Google Web Fonts, this free serif selection exhibits classic proportions and styling adapted for optimal clarity across print, web and digital media. The understated design promotes continuous reading while conveying competence for various professional communications, from handouts to websites.

Key Takeaway: Modern serif font interpretations like Sabon, ITC Legacy Serif and Merriweather smartly evolve heritage styling for today's professional, multi-media business needs.

Sans Serif Fonts Signal Modernity For The Digital Era

Initially designed by Monotype in 1982 to offer Helvetica -style appeal more economically, this ubiquitous neo-grotesque sans serif font conveys professionalism and modernity. The comfortably spaced proportions ensure approachability while promoting exceptional on-screen readability.

11. Helvetica Neue

This seminal, globally recognised neo-grotesque face originated from the 1957 Helvetica release. Designer Max Meidinger evolved the styling in 1983 to enhance spacing and strokes for improved digital rendering. The Swiss heritage of architectural clarity and purity perseveres through this digitally-optimized typeface.

12. Calibri

As the default font for Microsoft Office programs and Windows since 2007, Calibri offers a humanist sans serif option deeply familiar to modern business professionals. The rounded contours ensure approachability while the reliable rendering remains professionally polished across documents, slides, forms and other uses.

Key Takeaway: Leading neo-grotesque sans serifs like Arial, Helvetica Neue, and Calibri adopt simplified styling that crisply conveys professional digital-age messaging.

Specialised Sans Serifs Target Professional Needs

13. clearviewhwy.

Specifically tailored for road signage by designer Don Meeker in 1998, this humanist sans serif face allows extraordinary readability for content viewed from a moving vehicle. Tested and proven across state transportation departments, Clearview denotes authority for wayfinding signage applications.

14. Frutiger

This Univers-inspired sans serif, designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1976, improves visual hierarchy through letter variation. Numerals and glyphs are easily distinguished from letters to enhance clarity for signage and labelling purposes. The streamlined Swiss styling also denotes modern efficiency.

15. FF Mark

Designed by Erik Spiekermann in 2009, FF Mark offers a simplified, dotless construction derived from industrial German engineering and architectural signage applications dating to the 19th century. The functional format, stripped of superfluous strokes, delivers clear communication of professional content.

Key Takeaway: Field-specific sans serifs like ClearviewHwy, Frutiger , and FF Mark provide optimised displays targeted for professional signage or technical applications.

Authoritative & Distinctive: Professional Slab Serifs

16. rockwell.

Designer Frank Hinman released this bold, sturdy slab serif font 1934 for the Inland Type Foundry. The thick, monolinear strokes offer substantial visual presence, while softened rectangles lend friendlier allure. Rockwell brings commanding gravitas yet approachable warmth simultaneously to business communications.

HCI editor Matthew Carter designed this efficient slab serif family in 2001 for media conglomerate Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia exclusive use. Structured, compact strokes ensure clarity even at small sizes on inferior printing presses, maximising professional polish for publishing at scale.

18. Roboto Slab

Christian Robertson expanded his 2013 Roboto humanist sans serif into serif and slab serif families as core Google Fonts selections. Roboto Slab’s modern appearance and responsiveness across digital platforms offer a distinctive professional personality deviating from traditional expressions.

Key Takeaway: Distinctive professional slab serifs like Rockwell, Archer and Roboto Slab couple commanding visual presence with sturdy legibility to elevate business content .

Specialist Display Fonts Grab Professional Attention

This imposing caps-only Roman square capital's face echoes the solid strokes displayed prominently on Trajan ’s Column monument erected circa 113 AD. The all-caps letterforms project monumentality, allowing this font to emphasise professional titles, logos, signage and headlines with gravitas.

Paul Renner’s 1927 milestone project encapsulated Modernist design with ideological efficiency through ordered, geometric strokes. Branding professionals leverage Futura to communicate focus and innovation, while design principals rely on minimal expression to emphasise information density.

Inspired by architectural signage, designer Tobias Frere-Jones crafted this bold, structural alphabet in 2000 to evoke steadfast New York heritage. Professional designers rely on Gotham’s straightforward style to communicate confidence through headlines, titles, and branding elements .

Key Takeaway: Columnar Trajan, modern Futura, and architectural Gotham offer scalable display fonts to attract professional interest to titles, branding and headlines.

Handwritten Fonts Convey Personal and Professional Approachability

22. dearsarah sf pro.

Software developers Balance Type Foundry crafted this stylish, contemporary handwritten face in 2021 to inject personal warmth into professional communications. Ligatures between specific letter pairs boost intimacy while practising restraint to sustain polish, befitting more formal contexts like event invitations or featured callouts.

23. Sf Handwriting Dakota

This casual handwritten font comes courtesy of the digital agency Design K to resonate authentically with personal correspondence for professional introductions or outreach touchpoints. Designed with multilingual support, the global accessibility remains professionally inclusive.

24. Homemade Apple

Independent type designer Sam Parrett delivers this distinctive, organic handwritten face that combines whimsical, retro warmth akin to scampering chalkboard renderings with the approachability of a trusted neighbour. Professional applications could include feature headers in reports or emphasis lines within newsletters to boost engagement.

Key Takeaway: Casual handwritten fonts like DearSarah SF Pro, SF Handwriting Dakota, and Homemade Apple humanise professional messaging through personalised execution.

Combining Complementary Fonts Creates Hierarchy & Contrast

When combining fonts for professional communications:

• Align Serif & Sans Serif Faces – Pairing a serif such as Garamond or Times New Roman with a sans serif like Arial or Helvetica offers visual hierarchy through contrast.
• Vary Weights For Emphasis – Mix heavy, light or condensed weights of compatible font families to make key content stand out.
• Highlight Display vs Text – Blend sturdy display fonts like Impact or Gotham to accent readable text choices like Georgia or Calibri.
• Maintain Consistent Typography – Limit professional font combinations to 2 or 3 compatible families and remain consistent across branded touchpoints.

Key Takeaway: Thoughtfully blending 2-3 complementary fonts into professional communications clarifies visual hierarchy through strategic contrast.

5 Key Criteria Define Great Professional Fonts

• Readability – Strong letterforms deliver content consumption efficiently
• Legibility – Distinct characters discern at small sizes
• Clarity – Crisp definition promotes engagement
• Compatibility – Adapts gracefully across media formats
• Personality – Unique traits align with context

Key Takeaway: Professional font technical effectiveness must match appropriate contextual emotion and personality to achieve communications goals fully.

Most Professional Fonts – Recap At A Glance

• Serif – Times New Roman, Sabon, Georgia, Merriweather
• Sans Serif – Arial, Helvetica Neue, ClearviewHwy
• Slab Serif – Archer, Roboto Slab, Rockwell
• Display – Futura, Gotham, Trajan
• Handwritten – DearSarah SF Pro, Homemade Apple

Conclusion: Apply Thoughtful Typography For Professional Results

This expansive guide highlights 24 exceptional font faces spanning common professional categories like Serif, Sans Serif, Slab Serif, Display and Handwritten. Each recommended font qualifies for business usage through optimal legibility, compatibility across modern media, and personality characteristics that strategically match professional communications goals.

While the highlighted selections represent esteemed options, designers must carefully contemplate additional criteria like industry context, audience demographics and branded guidelines when specifying fonts for professional documents or communications. Traditional selections like Times New Roman remain prudent choices that reliably convey professional expectations for specific formal uses like legal briefs or financial statements. More progressive companies may incorporate distinctive yet legible modern fonts like Helvetica Neue or Roboto Slab to signal forward-thinking, design-focused appeal.

Above all, professional font selections rely on thoughtful implementation aligned to the specifics of the intended communication and consumption formats. Suitable fonts effectively capture attention, sharpen hierarchy, strengthen retention and promote clarity to optimise audience engagement. As fine dining plates must be expertly paired to complemental courses, precision font selections elevate messaging while underscoring competence and care through thoughtful typographic presentation.

Review these 24 versatile professional fonts for your next communications project, effortlessly conveying your expertise through strategic typography optimised for business results.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Professional Fonts

What are the top 5 most professional fonts.

The five most versatile and professionally appropriate fonts include Times New Roman (Serif), Arial (Sans Serif), Archer (Slab Serif), Futura (Display) and DearSarah SF (Script). Each reliably offers legibility, compatibility and polish for business uses.

What font does Google use?

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Presentations are pieces of art. From slide structure to animations, every single detail matters. In this blog post, we will show you the 24 best PowerPoint fonts for all uses. Of course, like everything in design – you might like some and frown at others.

What we can guarantee you is that using this collection of top fonts for PowerPoint will always be a safe bet when you’re in doubt.

Article Overview: 1. How to import a font into your presentation? 2. Great Fonts to Use for your PowerPoint Presentations 3. Great System fonts for PowerPoint Presentations 4. How to design text in PowerPoint?

1. How to import a font into your presentation?

If you don’t know how to import fonts into PowerPoint, it’s important to learn how to do it.

Step 1. Download your fonts

The first step is to select your desired font and download it.

Step 2. Extract the font

Once you’ve downloaded the font, it’s most probably compressed. You need to extract it before installation. If it comes directly as a .otf or .ttf format, there’s no need to unzip.

Step 3. Install the font

Install the font. The process is similar to installing any software, just press “Next” until you see the option “Finish”. If your fonts have been successfully installed, they should appear in the Font library in Windows. To access it, go to your computer, Local Disk (C:)->Windows-> Fonts .

Step 4. Open PowerPoint

Once you open your PowerPoint, the new font should appear among the others.

2. Great Fonts to Use for your PowerPoint Presentations

Fonts are a great way to show some branding skills but also a significant part of your presentation. Of course, we cannot select the best PowerPoint fonts or the best fonts in general, it’s a too subjective matter. But we will try to show you some of the most versatile ones that you will not make a mistake with. Let’s start!

Lato is a very common font that is used in digital forms since it was created for this purpose. It is a sans-serif font that is flexible. One of the most useful things about it is that you can choose between 5 different options for font thickness, giving it extra value when creating PowerPoint presentations.

Recommended title size:  20px

Optimum size for legibility:  18px

Perfect for:  headers and body text

You can combine it with: Roboto, Montserrat, Merriweather

2. Open Sans

Open Sans is another great font that can fit PowerPoint presentations perfectly. Since there is some line spacing, it can be easily readable. If you have large paragraphs that you cannot break down in bullets, it’s your perfect choice. It’s a standard PowerPoint font, so you’ll most probably have it in your font library.

Recommended title size: 28px

Optimum size for legibility:  16px

Perfect for:  body text

You can combine it with: Georgia, Lucida Grande, Publico

Candara is not your everyday font. While you cannot use it in Linux or the web, as it’s proprietary,  it’s accessible in PowerPoint, and what makes it interesting are the curved diagonals, and it’s the curves that give it more “personality”.

Recommended title size: 20px

Optimum size for legibility: 16px

Perfect for: body text

You can combine it with: Calibri, Cambria, Corbel

Specifically designed for Windows 95, Tahoma is a very formal font that can fit business presentations perfectly. It is a very clear and distinctive font which can help avoid confusion, thus it makes it great for formal presentations that need clarity.

Optimum size for legibility: 18px

Perfect for: title headers and body text

You can combine it with:  Georgia, Helvetica Neue, Arial

5. Montserrat

Montserrat is an extremely popular font, as it can be utilized everywhere – from website texts to presentations. Due to its high practicality, you can find it almost anywhere. Well, we need to warn you that you won’t get many “originality” points but you’ll also be “safe” when using it.

Recommended title size: 30px

You can combine it with: Open Sans, Lora, Carla

Whitney is an amazing font that will make your presentation stand out. There are two options – Whitney Condensed and Whitney Narrow. To be honest, Whitney can be used for both headers and body texts (check Discord), but we find it a bit overwhelming for PowerPoint paragraphs.

Recommended title size: 22px

Optimum size for legibility: 15px

Perfect for: title headers

You can combine it with:  Sentinel, Mercury, Gotham

7. Proxima Nova

Proxima Nova is one of the most versatile fonts out there with not 2 but 7 variants! That makes it a viable choice for many purposes and it’s part of the Adobe Fonts collection. The popularity spike is not without a reason, and Proxima Nova certainly won’t disappoint as it is one of the better fonts for PowerPoint.

Recommended title size: 26px

Perfect for: headers and body text

You can combine it with:  Adobe Garamond, Futura, Helvetica Neue

Oswald is a very decent sans-serif typeface and has 3 different versions – light, normal, and bold. It’s an interesting combination of some modern elements combined with classic gothic style, thus it’s perfect for your presentations.

Recommended title size: 18px

You can combine it with: Merriweather, Arial, Roboto

Europa is an amazing font from the Adobe Font Family. It’s a modern geometric sans-serif font that goes well with other fonts from the Adobe family but it can be used in a combination with non-Adobe fonts. It’s up to you.

Recommended title size: 32px

Optimum size for legibility: 20px

Perfect for: headers

You can combine it with:  Adobe Garamond, Chaparral, Kepler

Roboto is one of the most versatile fonts for the web, as it comes with 6 variations. Described as a grotesque sans-serif, it is the default font of Google Maps. Being easy to read makes it great for body texts where scanning is pivotal. While it’s great for small texts, it doesn’t perform that well for titles.

Recommended title size: 38px

Optimum size for legibility: 22px

You can combine it with: Roboto-Slab, Oswald, Abel

Adelle is a slab serif font that is part of the Adobe Family. It’s multipurpose and could work be well utilized and magazines. Its personality and great visibility make it a viable choice on our PowerPoint fonts list. While it can be used for body text too, we prefer to recommend it for headers.

Recommended title size: 36px

You can combine it with: Freight Sans Pro, Proxima Nova, Lucida Grande

14. Lobster

Lobster is a great choice if you want to create some funky text. It’s a great font for posters and headers but ensure you don’t use it much for body text, as it has very poor legibility if written in small letters.

Recommended title size: 58px

Optimum size for legibility: not recommended

You can combine it with: Lato, Open Sans, Muli

Futura is almost a century old but still converts well today! It’s one of the most versatile fonts for PowerPoint in case you download it. Who would suppose a 95-year-old font would still be relevant these days? And you will win points for creativity.

Optimum size for legibility: 17px

You can combine it with: Proxima Nova, New Caledonia, Trade Gothic

Canela is a hybrid font, as it can neither be called serif, nor sans-serif. It’s a very graceful typeface and we find it amazing for title texts. We also loved how it performs in the body from an artistic standpoint. However, we cannot rate it as very suitable for long paragraphs. Still, it can be used in bullets quite well.

You can combine it with: Caslon, Futura, Maison Neue

Aleo is an modern slab serif typeface designed as a “companion” to other popular fonts, like Lato. It has a sleek design but that doesn’t sacrifice readability which matters the most. As it has great clarity, it can be used both as a title text and in the body.

Recommended title size: 25px

Optimum size for legibility: 19px

You can combine it with: Lato, Arimo, Halis Grotesque

18. Poppins

Poppins is a playful sans-serif font that can be used as a main PowerPoint font without any issue. Thanks to its versatility, this PowerPoint font can be used both for title headers and body text, although we prefer the latter.

Recommended title size: 24px

Perfect for: header, body text

You can combine it with: Raleway, Work Sans, New Caledonia

Eras font has 4 weight options in PowerPoint and is absolutely stunning. It won’t be a mistake if we use it as a synonym to “elegance”. It’s slightly italic, thus making it perfect for long paragraphs and web content.

You can combine it with: Garamond, Futura, Helvetica Neue

Lora is a great font that is offered for free by Google. It is a formal font that doesn’t turn its back on art, and as a result, it can be utilized greatly in PowerPoint both as a header and in the body, and it can work perfectly in print, too.

You can combine it with: Lato, Avenir, Montserrat

3. Great System fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

System fonts are a classic choice for PowerPoint presentations as they are a pretty safe bet – you can access them on all types of devices and operating systems. While some of them might not be as beautiful as the previous ones on our list, they will serve you well!

21. Georgia

Georgia is a classic serif font that doesn’t impress with outstanding looks but what makes it a viable choice for PowerPoint presentations is its versatility – you can use it on any type of presentation, as a header or in the body. It’s popular, so you won’t make a mistake using it.

You can combine it with:

22. Times New Roman

Times New Roman was “The Thing” back in time. It was used as a default font for many web browsers and software, thus it was overwhelming. Recently, this serif font has lost its “halo” and is less common but you will never get it wrong if you bring it back to life.

Optimum size for legibility: 12px

You can combine it with: Arial, Gotham, Helvetica Neue

Arial is another well-known name in the web font industry. You can also check this neo-grotesque sans-serif font used in PowerPoint presentations quite often, as it offers a lot of versatility.

You can combine it with: Oswald, Verdana, Georgia

24. Helvetica Neue

Helvetica Neue is the successor of Helvetica which improved legibility and made it more modern. It is one of the most formal fonts that you can use in PowerPoint (and at all). This sans-serif font has 23 different variations in PowerPoint 2022 that you can choose from.

You can combine it with:  Open Sans, Proxima Nova, Adelle

4. How to design text in PowerPoint?

There are certain standards that should be met, in order for your PowerPoint fonts to appear correctly. Let’s see how to order your texts.

1. Make sure the font size is readable

Do you wonder why some websites have HUGE fonts? It’s to ensure their content will be easily scannable. While you don’t have to use a 60px font size for your letters, you should consider making your text more readable.

Pro tip : A simple and straightforward way to achieve this is to try and remove large paragraphs, and replace them with single sentences and bullet points.

2. Make a contrast between the text and background

There is an adopted standard of a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio between text and background for content to be scannable, and 3:1 for large text. There are people who have bad eyesight, and others are color blind.

3. Use white space

White space (or negative space) is crucial for your slide design. It is used to separate different parts of the text, making content more readable. It’s crucial to remember that you should leave some “air” after finishing a main point in the slide.

4. Find the right text balance

One of the best PowerPoint presentation practices is to write between 6-8 lines and use no more than 30-35 words. Also, you should try to balance the text evenly – you cannot write 4 lines, then follow them with 3 lines, and then 1. Typically, writing 2-3 lines per paragraph is considered a good move, then followed by white space.

Final words

Structuring your PowerPoint text is not an easy feat. You need to pick the right PowerPoint fonts, as well as follow some basic instructions to make your slide text more scannable for your audience.

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50+ Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

Picking the right font for your presentation is probably the most important part of designing a PowerPoint slideshow. If your font isn’t readable, you’ll have a confused audience. We explored the web to find this collection of the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations to help you choose the best font for your slideshow design.

When designing a PowerPoint presentation it’s easier to just pick a font from the default fonts collections installed on your computer and just finish making the slides. But, a unique, custom font can help you create a winning presentation that shows off professionalism.

Choosing a unique font with the right weight and creative design will allow you to not only design a presentation that looks more original, but also to quickly attract the attention of your audience.

In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best fonts you can use to design professional slides for all kinds of PowerPoint presentations from business to startup pitch decks, school presentations, and much more.

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Config – Complete Font Family (40 Fonts)

Unlike most other font families, Config is a complete font family made just for professional designers and creatives. This font family comes with a total of 40 fonts.

Config includes 40 fonts in 8 different styles and in 10 weights. You also get italics, ligatures, alternatives, and much more with this font pack.

Why This Is A Top Pick

This is truly a special font pack that will help you design not only professional presentations but also many other types of print and digital designs. With 40 fonts, you’ll have plenty of options to choose from.

Devant Horgen – Modern Font for PowerPoint

This is one of the best fonts for presentations that features a tall and bold letter design that’s simply perfect for crafting titles for your slides. The font also comes in two different styles featuring glyphs, multilingual support, and web fonts.

Jungle East – Font For PowerPoint Titles

The quirky and simple design of this font makes it a great choice for PowerPoint presentations. It’s especially ideal for presentations about casual and lifestyle topics. The font features all-caps letters with lots of creative alternate characters.

Lost Signal – Font Duo for PowerPoint

With this font, you get a two-in-one deal as it comes with two unique fonts. It includes a regular font and an outline version that you can pair to craft attractive titles and designs for your presentations and various other projects.

Apple Juice – Fun Font for Presentations

Apple Juice is a fun font that will fit in great with presentations related to kids, education, schools, and more. It features uppercase and lowercase characters along with multilingual support.

Vistol Black – Free Font for Presentations

Vistol Black is a free font that comes with a very clean and professional letter design. It’s great for all your business and corporate presentations, especially for designing titles that grab attention.

Meribold – Modern Font for Presentations

This font has one of the coolest-looking letter designs that will make your titles and headings look extra sharp on presentation slideshows. It has bold letters with thick strokes to instantly grab your audience’s attention.

PlainScribe – Clean Font for PowerPoint

This font comes in two different styles featuring a regular and outline version, along with italics for both fonts. You can combine these two fonts to create attractive titles and text for PowerPoint presentations.

Handcraft Chalk Font for Presentations

If you’re going with a chalkboard-style handcrafted look for the presentations, then this font is a must-have for your project. It has a chalk-style letter design with a set of all-caps characters.

BRIGHTONS – Bold Title Font for PowerPoint

Brightons is a bold title font family that includes 16 different fonts with different weights. It’s a fantastic choice for designing big headings and titles for your PowerPoint slides that stand out.

Open Runde – Free Sans Font for PowerPoint

This free font has a very casual and clean letter design featuring rounded edges and beautifully smooth characters. You can use it to craft both titles and paragraphs for presentations. And it’s free to use with commercial projects.

Leading – Bold Sans Serif Font for PowerPoint

Leading is a modern sans-serif font that features a set of clean and thick letters. The font is perfect for adding attention-grabbing titles to your slideshows and presentations.

Chalk Brush – Creative Font for Presentations

This font combines two different styles of fonts to create a unique look. It takes elements from brush and chalk-style fonts to offer a unique handwritten letter design, which you can add to your own PowerPoint presentations.

Milkyway – Playful Font for PowerPoint

The retro and groovy design of this font will make any presentation stand out from the crowd. It features a fun and playful letter design that is ideal for all your PowerPoint slideshows related to casual and entertaining topics.

Sans Block – Handwritten Font for PowerPoint

If you’re looking for a font with a more personalized handwritten look, then this font is perfect for your presentations. It features a thin and minimalist letter design that’s especially suitable for school and educational slideshow designs.

RL Madena – Free Font for Presentations

This font is also free to download and it comes with an elegant serif letter design. It will make your typography look extra stylish in fashion and lifestyle-related presentations. The font is free for commercial use.

San Marino – Urban Font Family for Presentations

San Marino is another professional font that features clean-cut geometric letters. This font comes in 4 styles for you to choose from. And it’s suitable for business, lifestyle, and creative PowerPoint slideshow designs.

Kod Hulling – Rounded Fonts for PowerPoint

Want to add a casual and friendly look to your presentation slides? Then use this font to craft your slides with a classic look. The font comes with a very unique design featuring both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Miracle World – Elegant Font for Presentations

This font has the perfect design for crafting titles in presentations for luxury businesses and elegant lifestyle brands. It includes lots of stylistic characters and ligatures to help you design unique titles and designs for your slideshows.

Action Hero – Brush Font for PowerPoint Titles

With this brush font, you can design attention-grabbing titles for your fun and casual presentations. It has an 80’s action movie-themed letter design that comes with a set of cool all-caps letters. And with lots of alternate characters.

Quanty – Free Modern Font for PowerPoint

This free font is also great for designing titles in your PowerPoint slides. It has a simple and clean letter design that will add an extra-professional look to your presentation. The font is free to use with personal projects.

Indigo – Chunky Font Duo

Indigo is a modern and creative font that features a bold and thick character design. This font is ideal for designing titles and the headers of your presentations. It comes in both regular and outline styles.

Maximum Profit – Business Presentation Font

If you’re creating a business explainer PowerPoint presentation, Maximum Profit will help you hit a home run. It comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and more. Try it out today!

Mosra – PowerPoint Presentation Font

Looking for a typeface that feels right at home on virtually any kind of PowerPoint presentation? Mosra is a solid font choice that will help you create a presentation that stands out from the pack. We recommend you choose Mosra for your upcoming pitch deck or add it to your shortlist at the very least.

Cornerone – Corporate Presentation Font

Say hello to Cornerone, a simple, round typeface that will add a vintage flair to your presentation, and take it to a whole new level. Available in bold and regular styles, and cyrillic, and latin alphabets, Cornerone provides a surprising amount of creative control in your hands.

Cholens – Free Sans-serif Font

Modern, and classy, Cholens is a rounded sans-serif font that can be a solid choice for PowerPoint presentations of any kind. It contains uppercase and lowercase letters and is available for you to download without spending a penny. Get it now.

Mike Sans – Square Font

Mike Sans is a sans-serif font family that features a unique square and slightly rounded character design. The font includes 8 weights ranging from thin to heavy. It’s ideal for both title and paragraph text designs of presentations.

Metropolis – Font Family

Metropolis is an elegant serif font family that comes with a mix of modern and vintage design elements. It features a design inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang movie of the same name. This font is perfect for crafting business and professional presentation slideshows.

RNS Miles – Geometric Sans Font

RNS Miles is a modern sans-serif font featuring an attractive design. It’s been crafted with a combination of “geometric shapes, open forms, and grotesque mood”, which gives the font a unique look. The font includes 7 different weights with 7 italic versions of the font.

CA Texteron – Six Weight Text Font

Texteron is a professional font that comes in 6 different weights, including bold, heavy, and small caps font styles. The font features an elegant design that makes it perfect for designing the paragraph text of your PowerPoint slides.

Peace Sans – Free Presentation Font

Peace Sans is a bold display font with thick character design. This font is most suitable for designing titles and headers of your presentations. It’s free to use with your personal projects.

Univia Pro – Free Font Family

Univia Pro is a family of sans-serif fonts that features multiple font weights ranging from thick to bold designs. You can use it to design both titles and body text of your presentations.

Italo – Creative Font

Italo is a creative sans-serif handwritten font that comes with a unique design. It’s most suitable for designing PowerPoint slides for entertaining, fun, and creative presentations. The font also includes lots of glyphs and alternate characters as well.

Brother Typeface

Brother is a yet another creative font that comes with a bold design, making it best for using to design the titles of your slides. The font comes with both uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuations.

Vistol – Free Sans Serif Font Family

Vistol is a free font family that features a set of clean and minimalist sans serif characters. The font includes 9 different font weights ranging from thin to extra bold and black.

This font is ideal for designing both titles and body text of your presentations as it includes both uppercase and lowercase letters.

The simple and attractive character design gives this font family a special place on our list. It’s also completely free to use with your personal and commercial projects.

Cansu – Free PowerPoint Font

While you’ll find a number of freebies on our list, when it comes to choosing the one that we like the most, Cansu definitely takes the cake. With an air of minimalism, the font is perfectly suited for a variety of presentation formats.

Addington CF – Serif Font Family

Addington is a family of serif fonts that feature a very formal design. It’s perfect for designing PowerPoint slides for business and professional presentations. The font comes with 7 different font weights including roman and italic sets.

Avera Sans – Font Family

Avera is a unique family of sans-serif fonts that comes in 3 different styles, a brush font, a handcrafted style font, and a sketch style font. This font family will come in handy when designing many different types of slideshow presentations.

Calama – Free Condensed Font

Calama is a free font that comes with a narrow condensed design. This type of fonts is best not to be used as your body text font. But it will make your titles look great.

Mathison – Free Modern Display Font

Mathison is a free serif font that has a unique design of its own. This font is perfect for crafting unique headers and sub-headers in your presentations. It’s free to use with personal and commercial projects.

Cormier – Art Deco Font

Cormier is a creative font that comes with an art deco inspired design. It includes 3 styles of fonts: Rough, Double, and Regular. The font features all-uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuations.

Metrisch – Sans-Serif Font Family

Metrisch is a minimalist sans-serif font that features an elegant design. The font comes in 7 different weights to match both the titles and text in your slides. It’s most suitable for making slides related to business and professional projects.

Frank – Modern Font Family

Frank is a bold font that comes with a modern design. It includes 4 different fonts, including oblique and rough styles. And the fonts are available in 5 different weights, making a total of 20 fonts.

Bistro – Handcrafted Font

Bistro is a creative font with a handcrafted design. This font is perfect for designing slides related to creative work, kids, school presentations, and more. It comes with 3 different weights and in both serif and sans-serif versions.

Hunky Dory – Fun Bold Font

This cute and adorable font features a fun and quirky design that makes it most suitable for designing presentations related to fun events. It will especially help get the attention of children.

Mosk – Free Clean Sans-Serif Font

Mosk is a modern sans-serif font family that comes with 9 different font weights. You can use this free font to design both titles and paragraphs of your PowerPoint presentations.

Manrope – Free Geometric Sans-Serif Font

Manrope is a unique sans-serif font that comes with 7 different weights. It features a geometrically accurate design that makes it perfect for all kinds of business and professional presentations.

Venice Serif – Font Family

Venice is a serif font with an elegantly thin design. The font comes in multiple weights, including light, bold, and italic versions. It also includes 195 glyphs and it’s best for fashion and luxury presentation designs.

Granite – Modern Brush Font

Granite is a creative brush style font you can use to design bold and creative PowerPoint slides. The font includes lots of swashes and glyphs. It’s perfect for slides with colorful images and graphics.

Bison – Bold Font Family

Bison is a bold font family that comes with several unique font styles, including regular and outline versions of the font. It also features italics, numbers, and punctuations as well.

Frosty – Modern Typeface

Frosty is a creative font you can use to design the titles of fun and attractive slides. The font features a quirky design that will work well with colorful and minimalist PowerPoint presentations.

Hobart – Minimal Typeface

This sans-serif font is ideal for designing creative and business slideshow presentations. The font features a design inspired by a font released in the 20th Century and it comes in 3 different weights.

4 Tips for Choosing a Presentation Font

If you’re new to creating presentations, follow these tips to find the best font for your design.

1. Choose Fonts That Improve Readability

Most PowerPoint presentations include two different types of text titles or headings and paragraph text. When designing both types of text, you need to take readability into account.

Where are you presenting your slideshow? Will it be at a big conference for a big crowd? Or a small team meeting at the office? Depending on the situation, choose a font and a font size appropriately. For example, if you’re presenting the slideshow to a crowd at a large hall, you may want to use an easy to read sans-serif font with larger font size for paragraph text to let people in every corner read the text more easily.

2. Use No More Than Two Fonts

It’s best to use two different fonts for your titles and paragraph text. But, avoid using more than two fonts. Some people actually use one font for titles, one for bullet points, one for paragraphs, and another for sub-headings. This is a mistake that only creates confusion and destroys professionalism.

Use two matching font pairs for titles and paragraphs, preferably sans-serif fonts.

3. Keep Consistency

One of the biggest mistakes people make when using fonts in presentations is choosing different font styles that ruin readability. For example, using a script font for paragraphs is a terrible choice.

When choosing different fonts, also remember to keep consistency. Don’t use different fonts for each and every slide in your presentation.

4. Avoid Using All-Caps Fonts

Some fonts only include uppercase letters and doesn’t come with lowercase letters. When choosing a font, remember to check whether your font includes both sets of letters.

While all-caps text is suitable for designing titles and headings, it’s not a good choice for body text. You should try to avoid using all-caps fonts altogether especially when designing professional and business presentations.

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The best fonts for PowerPoint can make a significant impact on your designs. If you’re curious about which ones made the cut in this list, check out the roundup below!

When it comes to the most fascinating fonts best utilized for PowerPoint presentations, there aren’t any hard rules. Still, you’ll want to consider a handful of things.

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Firstly, PowerPoint projects require fonts that are headline-ready.

In other words, you’ll want to use fonts that are instantly easy to read. Since texts on a PowerPoint are typically kept to a minimum, it’s best to go for typography that balances striking and legible.

Secondly, it goes without saying how the theme of your report should dictate how lavish or conservative your font should be. For creative pitches, the sky is the limit, and whatever visual solution helps you best articulate your ideas is never a bad thing.

If you’re presenting a generally more formal presentation, however, you’ll want to just go for traditional-looking and recognizable fonts.

Overall, you can be as expressive and subtle as you choose to be with your presentation fonts. All things considered, let’s go over the 18 best fonts for Powerpoint.

18+ Best Fonts for PowerPoint in 2024

• Montero Display Typeface
• Tuttifonts — 23 Fonts Bundle
• Weigeland Serif Font
• Streamline Moderne
• Apostrof — Grotesk Type
• MONEYWISE — Business Display Font

For the complete list, scroll on!

Also, see our best headline fonts and best display fonts .

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18+ Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations in 2024

Mosse is an elegant sans serif that’s designed for improved readability. Packing even weights across each character’s entire structure, this font pack is straightforward and universally flexible.

Simply put, you can use this font regardless of whatever you’re presenting, and we can guarantee you that your PowerPoint will stand out. Clean, professional, and loud, there are plenty of things to like about this Envato offering.

2. Montero Display Typeface

What makes Montero Display Typeface such a gorgeous PowerPoint font is its modern touches. Sporting controlled letterforms and geometric evenness, this set comes complete with both uppercase and lowercase letters.

It’s also incredibly easy to read, allowing your viewers to immediately decode a message. The bundle’s various weights also allow you to experiment with aesthetics, granting you the utmost freedom to be creative.

3. Tuttifonts – 23 Fonts Bundle

Arguably the best thing designers appreciate about Tuttifonts  is that this bundle comes with 23 different options, each of which, is designed to grab attention.

Among the impressive list of options here, our favorite ones are Desta, Giordano, Altero, Parco, and Apice. If you don’t know which kit to download first, this is a robust choice you can’t go wrong with!

4. Weigeland Serif Font

Weigeland is an elegant blend of modern and classic elements. Featuring straight and slender lines, each curve here is tasteful and each slant is well-thought-of.

Suitable for PowerPoint presentations with premium products in the line-up, this is a set you can use for more than just decks and slides.

5. Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne is a pack that features slender characters and slanted stems. Also suitable for quotes, social media art cards, marketing materials, merchandise, and a whole lot more, this visual solution is sure to beautify whatever PowerPoint presentation you’re brewing up.

6. Racer Boy

Reminiscent of WordArt fonts in the 90s, Racer Boy does a tremendous job of holding one’s attention. A display of 3D-like fonts, this shiny visual solution is slender, sports-inspired, and perfect for headlines. What’s not to like?

7. Apostrof – Grotesk Type

Apostrof has a fun, retro vibe. Packing regular and italic versions of the entire set, this Grotesk-inspired font pack is absolutely perfect for presentations that cover gaming, merchandise, branding, and lifestyle projects. It’s cute, trendy, and naturally, a pretty sight to behold.

8. Bisetron

Bisetron is an expanded sans-serif font set with robot-inspired visuals. Packed with the kind of visuals Hollywood movies use for sci-fi-themed stories, this set is loud, legible, and easy to enjoy.

If you’re looking for familiar fonts that pack a lot of personalities and fit future-themed presentations, you can’t go wrong with this one.

9. MONEYWISE – Business Display Font

MONEYWISE is a business display font that mixes slender and chunky. Also very much under the trendy fonts category, this selection is playful, youthful, and incredibly legible.

Apart from PowerPoint presentations, this set is sure to thrive in business logos and signages.

10. Magnivera

Magnivera is an old-style serif font that’s most known for curved stems. Perfect for fashion and lifestyle PowerPoint presentations, this pick is clear, clean, and easy to appreciate without being too visually dramatic.

11. ARCADE Font

ARCADE is a vintage font that’s thematic and beautifully cohesive. With thick, uneven lines, this set features dreamy-like characters that are great for a variety of projects.

Whether you’re working on clothing designs, branding efforts, school posters, or what have you, this visual solution is a presentation in itself!

12. S&S Nickson Font Family

Another awesome font bundle with multiple varieties is S&S Nickson Font Family . Loaded with 15 terrific fonts, each of the sets you’ll find here is headline-ready and designed to be appreciated both near and far.

Sporting familiar typography, picks here are professional and recognizable, making them great solutions for formal presentations.

13. Ingo – Modern Serif Display Font

Ingo is most definitely one of the most unique fonts to ever grace the internet, immediately making it a great option for PowerPoint presentations.

Arguably sultry and architectural, the elements in each of this pack’s characters are beautifully curved and unpredictably classy. Also suitable for upscale branding initiatives, this is a font we can stare at for hours!

14. M indset Business Corporate Font

M indset  is a sophisticated sans serif that’s easy to play with. Combining creative and formal, fonts here come in multiple weights. Because it features straightforward characters and conservative, straight lines, this one’s one of the more versatile options on the list.

Use it for whatever presentation you need to!

15. Oracul – Bohemian Display Font

Oracul is a trendy display font that’s reminiscent of hippy aesthetics and tarot-like visuals. Complete with unique elements around many of its characters, this pack is a standout without even trying.

Slender, playful, and a statement in itself, it’s understandable why this visual solution makes for a striking PowerPoint font.

16. JUST Sans® Clean Modern Minimal Geometric Typeface

Choosing the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations significantly impacts your designs. JUST Sans is ideal if you are curious about making your designs even more fascinating with clean and minimalistic fonts.

JUST Sans is designed to be clean and minimalistic to give a classy and elegant look. Its modern geometric legibility, endearing warmth, and distinctive friendly bite make it even more mesmerizing. This professional geometric sans serif font comes with seven weights and complete Latin extended language support.

In addition to its aesthetic qualities, this font features universal functionality and characteristics, making it an essential addition to your type arsenal. With its open, warm, and expressive touch, JUST Sans is an ideal choice for web, signages, branding, UI, posters, billboards, displays, logos, new media, architecture, fashion, and design projects.

You can download JUST Sans at Envato Elements.

17. Geminy – Retro Elegant Font

If you are looking for a font that adds a touch of magic and playfulness to your presentations, Geminy is our perfect choice for you. Geminy has the power to make your content unique and capture attention.

It strikes a balance between not being too thin or too thick, which makes it versatile and easy to read. What’s even more enchanting is that some of its letters feature delicate diamond accents, adding a touch of sparkle and charm.

Geminy’s letters flow gracefully with curvy lines, giving your text a fun and inviting look.

We highly recommend this font for various purposes, especially in PowerPoint presentations like children’s stories or fairy tales, or presentations that showcase creative work, like art or crafts, or themed parties or events, such as “Enchanted Forest” or “Wizardry” gatherings.

However, it is important to note that Geminy does not offer multilingual support.

18. Along Sans Font Family v4

We appreciate the attention to detail in this font’s design. The Along Sans font family has evolved to reflect geometry-based glyph design and modern typography trends.

Setting it apart is the considerate reimagining of the lowercase letters a, d, and u, aimed at softening the otherwise edgy nature of the grotesque style.

This refinement extends to all the glyphs, focusing more on balance and rhythm, making Along Sans a smart tool for designers.

Moreover, the standard ligatures of the previous version have been returned to discretionary ligatures, aligning them with their original purpose.

In addition to its design enhancements, Along Sans offers support for basic Cyrillic and Ukrainian language sets, broadening its versatility for various language needs.

Best Default Fonts for PowerPoint in 2024

If you’re looking for default fonts installed on your computer, you can’t go past these classic fonts:

Frequently Asked Questions

Is it possible to add fonts to powerpoint.

Yes, you can add fonts to Powerpoint. When installed, applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have automatic fonts. However, if you wish to install a custom font you have purchased or downloaded from elsewhere, it is also possible.

Which is the best font for business presentations?

MONEYWISE is the best font for business presentations because this font mixes slender and chunkiness which you can use in business logos and signages apart from Powerpoint presentations.

Which is the best readable in PowerPoint presentations?

Montero Display Typeface is the best PowerPoint font with modern touches and is incredibly easy to read, allowing your viewers to immediately decode a message.

Ultimately, the 18 best fonts for PowerPoint presentations are all tremendous finds, each designed to fit more than one project.

Whether you’re whipping up a deck for a client or looking for aesthetics for merchandise, all of the font bundles here are sure to deliver. From legibility and personality to style and visual diversity, these fonts won’t disappoint!

What’s your favorite font pack from the list? Let us know in the comment section!

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20 Best PowerPoint Fonts to Make Your Presentation Stand Out in 2024

What makes or kills a first impression during any presentation is your usage of typefaces in the slide design. There are common sins that we should avoid at all costs, but mostly, there are tactics we can learn to feel confident about designing presentation slides for success.

In this article, we shall discuss what makes a quality typeface to use in presentation slides, the difference between fonts and typefaces (two terms mistakenly used interchangeably), and several other notions pertinent to graphic design in an easy-to-approach format for non-designers. At the end, you will have a better idea of which are the best fonts to use for presentations. Let’s get started.

Table of Contents

Font vs. Typeface: What’s the difference?

Serif vs. sans serif, 6 elements you should consider when picking a typeface for presentation design, how to install a font in powerpoint.

• 20 Best PowerPoint Fonts

10 Best PowerPoint Fonts combinations for presentations

Considerations before presenting or printing a slide regarding typefaces, recommended font pairing tools & other resources, closing thoughts.

Most people are familiar with the term font , but what if we tell you it is wrongly used and you intend to say another word? Let’s start by defining each term.

A typeface is a compendium of design elements that set the style of any lettering medium. The misconception comes as the typeface is the set of rules that form a family in style, and the font is the implementation of those rules in practical elements. How so? Well, a font is part of a typeface family and can list variations , i.e., light, regular, bold, heavy, etc. 

Putting it into simpler terms, a font is part of a typeface, and typefaces are set to classes depending on their graphical elements. That categorization stands as:

• Blackletter

Up to this point, you may ask yourself: what is the whole point of the serif? Well, there’s a little bit of story behind it. Back in the old days, when writings were made in stone, engravers added extra glyphs at the end of each letter, as a consequence of the chisel mark. In 1465, with the development of the type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg , the Gothic’s overly-ornamented Blackletter style – used mostly for ecclesiastical purposes – was the go-to typeface to use as it mimicked the formal handwriting style. There was a problem, though, and it arose as such typefaces required lengthy space to produce a book, increasing printing costs. This is where the first pure serif types started to emerge, but readability remained a problem; especially when Renaissance’s calligraphy style didn’t offer an alternative.

These concepts were revised by the 18th century when a pursuit for aesthetics gave birth to newer, slim versions of the serif script. By 1757, John Baskerville introduced what we now know as Transitional typefaces, intended as a refinement to increase legibility. The end of the 18th century saw the inception of modern serif typefaces, which came from the hand of designers Firmin Didot and Giambattista Bodoni. Their work altered the appearance of standard serif typefaces to make the metal engraving process a high-quality process. This is what we now know as the Didone typeface family. 

19th century introduced the slab serifs , also known as Egyptian, which changed communication media as large-scale advertisement quickly adopted this style. In case you wonder if you ever saw this style, remember the large bold letters that newspapers used for headings. The evolution of this typeface style came in 1816, with William Caslon’s “ Caslon Egyptian ” style, or the two-lines style. This is the very first sans serif typeface ever recorded, and its continuity in style or alterations saw a massive process during the 20th century.

It is quite the process that led to what we now know as sans serif typefaces, and such a road was paved for the sake of legibility and style. Nowadays, there’s little doubt about these two typeface families as you can easily identify iconic styles such as “Times New Roman” and clearly differentiate them from sans serif families like “Arial.” In the graphic below, you can appreciate the glyphs that distinctively give the serif typefaces their style.

Moving on to the parts that pique our interest as presenters, you should consider some implicit rules before starting a PowerPoint design. 

Functionality

Let’s be hyper-clear on this point: not every typeface works for your intended purpose. Legibility should be your primal focus, way more than design, as what’s the point of using a cool-looking typeface if no one can get a clue of what’s written? 

Functionality refers to the usage of a typeface at different sizes across a document. Do you ever wonder why you see the same typeface on eye testing boards? Usually is a slab serif, with its sans serif alternative, and the same font is repeated, downscaling its size to test your visual acuity. If, said typeface, had “catchy” glyphs, you would require twice as much time actually to read the type below the average 24pt in a board.

Language support

This is a common, and painful, pitfall many non-English speakers do. They fall in love with a typeface after browsing an English-based website, but whenever they apply it to a personal project, they find they cannot use their average characters. Which characters are those?

• Ø – in Nordic languages.
• Ö – also known as umlaut in German, is commonly used in Turkish, Nordic, and Baltic languages.
• Á – the acute accent used in most Latin-based languages such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French.
• Ô – the circumflex, mostly used by Portuguese-speaking users but also French.
• Ç – the cedilla, used in Portuguese, French, Catalán, and Turkish (the ? character, for example).
• Ã – the tilde, common in Portuguese.

And those are just some examples extracted from the Latin alphabet. The problem even worsens if we intend to use Cyrillic, Greek, Hindi, or other Asiatic alphabets (which don’t fall into Chinese, Japanese, or Korean typical logographic style). For this reason, we emphasize testing the characters you will mostly use throughout a standard written text, just not to come across nasty surprises.

Some font families offer support for multi-language applications across the same alphabet. Others, restrict their compatibility in terms of certain characters (i.e., the acute accent in Spanish), but sometimes, that renders as a distorted character that looks awful at any written copy.

Multiple weights

We want to expose this point by first explaining what weight means for a font family. As previously mentioned, fonts are part of a typeface; they are their implementation in terms of style. Well, fonts include variations within the same specific family style that makes the text look thinner or bolder. That’s known as font weight and can be classified in two ways.

Name classification:

• Thin Italic
• Medium Italic
• Semibold (also known as Demi Bold)
• Semibold Italic
• Bold Italic
• Heavy (also known as Black)
• Heavy Italic

Web designers and graphic designers often use a number-based scale, which is inherited from CSS.

• 100 – Thin
• 200 – Extra Light
• 300 – Light
• 400 – Normal or Regular
• 500 – Medium
• 600 – Semibold
• 700 – Bold
• 800 – Extra Bold
• 900 – Black

Now you know the reason why some places like Google Fonts often show numbers next to the name definition of it.

Not every typeface can be used for any project. Some typefaces can be acquired for a fee through sites like MyFonts.com , but their usage does not allow commercial use. What exactly does this mean?

Let’s say you created a product, and you love the Coca-Cola lettering style. Well, you want to use the Coca-Cola typeface, which is trademarked, as the typeface for your logo. Everything sounds fantastic until your designer warns you that it’s impossible.

Brands that create typefaces for their logos, which is a common practice to deliver the originality factor into the brand, restrict the usage of their intellectual property for commercial use as they don’t want to be associated with the wrong kind of message. Okay then, what happens when a kid uses those typefaces on a school project? This writer sincerely doubts a company shall put their legal team to prosecute a student; most likely, they feel it is part of their brand awareness and cultural influence. That same argument won’t be used if a particular is intending to use the typeface to make a profit with a non-branded product, and you will be legally requested to ditch the design altogether. 

Therefore, before opting for a typeface, don’t fall prey to using a fancy, trademarked, typeface. 

The unknown-typeface strikes again

This is another common pitfall if you attend multiple presentations or if you work in the printing business. How often does a user feel annoyed that the presentation “looked different” at home? Fonts are the culprit for this.

Whenever you work on a presentation using local-based software, like PowerPoint, the typefaces you pick are the ones installed on your computer. Therefore, if you change devices, the typefaces won’t be available. We will retake this topic later, but consider always working with well-known typefaces available on any computer rather than innovation.

Sins of type

Finally, we want to conclude this section with the vices you should avoid at all costs whenever working with type in presentations. 

• Using multiple typefaces on the same document: As a rule, don’t use more than 3 typefaces across your presentation slides design. Increasing the number of typefaces won’t make it more appealing; quite the opposite, and you should be mindful that if your images contain text, they have to match the existing typefaces in the presentation. 
• DO NOT use Comic Sans: By all means, do yourself a favor. There are multiple reasons why designers feel like having a stroke whenever Comic Sans enters the scene, but if you want a straightforward reason why, it makes your work look childish, unprofessional, and unfit for its purpose.
• Script fonts for the body of text : Legible typefaces are required in long text areas to make the reader feel comfortable. Script fonts are not intended for readability but for design purposes. If your text is long, work with serif or sans serif typefaces (slab serif won’t do good as well).
• Excess tracking : Tracking refers in typography to the space between words, and the perfect way to point this out is by referring to the Justify paragraph alienation, which often leaves heavy white areas between words. Excess tracking makes the text look boring and hard to read.

Installing a font in PowerPoint doesn’t mean installing it as a third-party plugin; you must install the font family into the operating system (OS). 

Installing a font in Windows

Method 1 – Via Contextual Menu

• Download your desired font family. Extract the zip file you obtain.
• Right-click the font files you obtain from the zip (they can be in OpenType or TrueType format). Click on Install on the contextual menu. 
• You will be prompted to give admin rights to make changes to your computer. If you trust the source, then click yes. 

Method 2 – Via C: Drive

• Open a new File Explorer window. Search this path: C:\Windows\Fonts. That’s where fonts are stored in any Windows OS. 
• Copy the files from your extracted zip file or folder containing fonts.
• Paste the fonts by right-clicking inside the Fonts folder, then click Paste .

Relaunch the opened applications to see the effects of installing a font.

Installing a font on Mac

Mac OS requires a different procedure for installing fonts. First, access the Font Book app. 

After launching Font Book, go to File > Add Fonts to Current User . Double-click the font file. 

The Font Book app validates the integrity of the font file and if there are duplicate fonts. For more detailed instructions and troubleshooting on Mac font install procedures, check this guide by Apple .

20 Best Fonts for PowerPoint

Now it’s time to explore what you’ve been looking for: the best fonts for PowerPoint! This is a list of typefaces intended for multiple uses in slides, and it will certainly boost your PowerPoint design ideas for the greater.

#1 – Tahoma Font

This typeface is typically used in PowerPoint slides, emails, Word documents, and more. It resembles Verdana but with a smaller kerning (distance between characters). Due to that, it feels slimmer, professional and works perfectly on multiple devices. This is one of the best fonts for presentation that you can consider to use.

Recommended font pairing: Georgia, Brandon Grotesque, Helvetica Neue, Palatino, Arial.

#2 – Verdana Font

Verdana is a sans serif classic commonly used for citations, disclaimers, and academic documents. It is available on both Windows and Mac as a pre-installed font, which would solve your problems if you have to deliver presentations on multiple devices (which may not be yours).

Recommended font pairing: Arial, Lucida Grande, Futura, Georgia.

#3 – Roboto

Another delicate sans serif font that is ideal for text bodies. It is rated among the best fonts for PowerPoint readability and presentations, so you can easily pair it with more prominent font families. You may recognize this typeface as it is the default Google Maps uses.

Recommended font pairing: Oswald, Gill Sans, Garamond, Open Sans, Teko, Crimson Text.

#4 – Rockwell

Including visually attractive elements is crucial when looking for the best fonts for presentations, so why not combine a professional style with a slab serif typeface like Rockwell?

It is ideal for headings, especially if used in its bold font weight and paired with a sans serif for the body.

Recommended font pairing: Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans, Futura, DIN Mittelschrift.

#5 – Open Sans

This is easily one of the most versatile sans-serif fonts you can find! It is commonly used in presentation slides as both heading and body, varying font-weight, but you can also create powerful combinations with different typefaces.

Recommended font pairing: Roboto, Brandon Grotesque, Montserrat, Oswald, Lora, Raleway.

#6 – Lato

A typeface intended for digital mediums, one of its biggest advantages is its wide range of font weights – much like Open Sans. It is ideal for headings in minimalistic-themed presentations, but it can work perfectly as body text if paired with a serif font or a script one.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Oswald, Roboto, Merriweather.

#7 – Futura

This sans serif typeface was designed by Paul Renner in 1927 and remains a preferred choice of designers thanks to its clean aspect with pure geometric shapes. It has inspiration from the Bauhaus in terms of styling, so any presenter that loves modern style will find in this typeface a loyal companion.

Recommended font pairing: Playfair Display, Lato, Book Antiqua, Helvetica, Open Sans.

#8 – Book Antiqua

A typeface widely used in the first years of the 2000s, its graphical elements are inspired by Renaissance’s handwritten style. Created in 1991 by The Monotype Corporation, it is known as a classic in design projects and won’t run out of fashion any time soon. Its italic variation is considered one of the most beautiful italic serif fonts.

Recommended font pairing: Myriad Pro, Baskerville, Georgia, Futura, Vladimir Script.

#9 – Bebas Neue

This typeface is strictly intended for headings or for body copy that doesn’t mind the usage of caps. The reason is that this typeface is entirely made of caps. It has no lowercase characters, but its slender shape and tight kerning have made it a popular choice among well-known designers like Chris Do. One creative usage of this typeface is to use it in outline format.

Recommended font pairing: Avenir, Montserrat, DIN Mittelschrift, Roboto.

#10 – Lora

This serif typeface can be used both in PowerPoint and Google Slides, as it is a free typeface offered by Google. Works perfectly for formal-styled headings, but it can adapt for text body as long as it remains a minimum of 15pt in size. It is an ideal option to pair with free PowerPoint presentation templates.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Open Sans, Poppins, Avenir.

#11 – Montserrat

You most likely came across Montserrat at some point in your life, since it is an extremely popular choice among designers for presentations and packaging. Due to this, you won’t spark innovation but rather remain on the safe side for font pairings – which is ideal for corporate styling.

Recommended font pairing: Lora, Open Sans, Merriweather, Oswald, Georgia, Roboto.

#12 – Bentham

Another elegant serif font used for formal occasions, like wedding invitations, headings, or product descriptions. Its kerning makes it readable, unlike many other serif fonts, which is one of the reasons why you can work with this font for the body if you opt for a sans serif in the headings. 

Recommended font pairing: Futura, Open Sans, Lato, Raleway.

#13 – Dosis

It is a simple, monoline sans serif typeface, which works perfectly in its extra light and light font weights to make a drastic contrast with a bold sans serif typeface. Ideally, work with this typeface for subheadings.

Recommended font pairing: Lato, Montserrat, Roboto, Oswald, Raleway.

#14 – Baskerville

You can come across this serif typeface in the form of Libre-Baskerville, a free serif typeface offered by Google. It is ideal for headings, thanks to its traditional style closely resembling the original Baskerville typeface, so it is ideal to stick to it in uppercase mode.

Recommended font pairing: Montserrat, Poppins, Lucida Grande, Helvetica Neue, Open Sans.

#15 – Poppins

This sans serif typeface breaks with the formal style of families like Verdana and Open Sans, introducing some graphical cues that make it adept for more relaxed situations. Therefore, it is ideal to use in team meetings, product presentations, or non-business presentations as long as it remains for title headers.

Recommended font pairing: Raleway, Garamond, Merriweather, Droid Serif. 

#16 – Zenith Script

EnvatoElements is a great marketplace for typefaces; among the options, we can find this brush-style script typeface. Zenith Script is a powerful option to come up with creative title designs for non-corporate meetings, as long as the title remains short. It can also work for branding purposes, and certainly, you can use it as an asset if you are looking for how to start a presentation .

Recommended font pairing: Any sans serif font in uppercase format, with increased kerning. Options can be Open Sans, Bebas Neue (modified), Roboto, and Futura.

#17 – Amnesty

The second option we consider among script typefaces. Amnesty has that dramatic effect that resembles rusting handwriting from the old days. It is ideal for presentations that have to convey a strong emotional factor, like product releases for fashion brands, and we recommend limiting its usage to short titles, always paired with sans serif typefaces.

Recommended font pairing: As it is a custom-made font, we recommend pairing it with its Amnesty Sans listed in the product file.

#18 – Bodoni

This typeface dates all the way back to 1798 and is considered a transitional font type. Its name comes from Giambattista Bodoni, designer, and author of this typeface, whose work was heavily influenced by John Baskerville. As a didone typeface, you find elegant traces that instantly give the feel of a fashion magazine heading, and it is no coincidence that this was the selected typeface for the title of Dante Alighieri’s La Vita Nuova re-print in 1925 .

Recommended font pairing: Brandon Grotesque, Gill Sans, Playfair Display, Raleway, Courier.

#19 – Avant Garde

If you are looking for good presentation fonts, this geometric sans serif is the answer to your question. This typeface is based on the Avant Garde magazine logo and remains one of the most popular condensed sans serif options. Many brands use Avant Gard these days as part of their branding identity, such as Macy’s (lowercase usage), the Scottish rock band Travis, RE/MAX, among others.

Recommended font pairing: Helvetica Neue, Sentinel, Garamond, Neuzeit Grotesk.

#20 – DIN Mittelschrift

Our final typeface in this list is the DIN 1451 sans serif typeface, widely used in traffic signage and administrative/technical applications. Its denomination, Mittelschrift, comes from the German word for medium, which refers to the font weight. You can find it in Engschrift , which stands for condensed. 

Recommended font pairing: Open Sans, Didot, Helvetica Neue, Lucida Grande.

Keep in mind that if you are looking for a proper way how to end a presentation , working with graphics is much better than sticking with type, as you show extra care for the final element in your slide deck. 

Open Sans + Roboto

Didot + DIN Mittelschrift

Bodoni + Gill Sans

Rockwell + Bembo

Bebas Neue + Montserrat Light

Helvetica Neue + Garamond

Oswald + Lato

Baskerville + Montserrat

Lora + Poppins

Book Antiqua + Myriad Pro

Before concluding the technical aspects of this article on best presentation fonts, we want to mention some key elements that you should consider before delivering a presentation or printing it for physical format.

Working with accurate text si zing in presentations can make a difference in how the slides are perceived by the audience. First, let’s make one very valid clarification: a Point (pt, unit used in PowerPoint and other word processing software) equals 1.333 pixels, or we can say a pixel is 0.75 pt.

You can find multiple resources and rules on font sizing intended for web designers, so let’s resume the primary points here:

• Body text should remain 12 to 14pt for legibility. If the presentation is shown from afar, increase body size to 16pt.
• The ratio for headings and titles is twice as big as the body text.
• Subheadings should be between 3-4 pt smaller than headings to make a valid contrast but not compete with the body text.
• Keep an eye on leading , the space between lines of text. Double spacing makes it hard to read in most situations, so avoid it for the text body. 

Getting slides ready for print format

Remember what we mentioned above about not having your fonts installed on the computer? Well, this inconvenience can be easily solved by rastering type before leaving your home or exporting your presentation file. PowerPoint doesn’t offer a native option to do this, so if your presentation has sections that are bound to suffer from font issues, work with them as images, which can be exported from Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator. It is just like working with PowerPoint shapes , but you remain on the safe side of font compatibility issues. 

Word of advice : keep an editable copy instead of just the rastered version.

Color contrast and color testing

Accessibility is the number #1 rule to remember when working with text, as it enhances the performance of your visual communication tactics. In general, don’t work with pure white or pure black colors, since it induces eye strain whenever a spectator has to read your slides for a long while. You can work with color contrast resources such as WebAIM’s Contrast Checker .

If your presentation slides are going to be handed out in deliverable format, be sure to perform a color test before you bulk print the slides. Some colors can be misleading, especially in the conversion from RGB to CMYK color spaces. Also, some light grays may not be accurately printed if done with an inkjet printer. Take some extra time to ensure this process is done right, and avoid last-minute costly frustrations. 

If you need to purchase typefaces, opt for trustworthy marketplaces. Sites like MyFont.com offer an immense collection of font families available for you, plus extra services like WhatTheFont , their AI-based typeface recognition software, which allows you to scan and detect typefaces from documents, images, and more. It is extremely useful if you are looking for a typeface but cannot remember its name.

Alternatives: Fonts.com | Adobe Fonts | Google Fonts

Fontjoy.com

For those who seek to explore creative font pairing schemes, Fontjoy is the site to visit. It is a simple layout, in which you select the font for the Title, Subheading, and Body. You can randomly generate combinations based on the contrast between typeface styles, or start with a typeface you had in mind for one section – lock it – and click on the generate button. 

Keep in mind it has a limited number of typefaces, some of which we mentioned here may not be available.

Alternatives: fontpairings.com

When looking for inspiration to create visually attractive font pairings, Typ.io is a website intended for web font inspiration, meaning to guide designers with different font schemes by looking at the font’s name. 

You can look at some projects in detail, with their CSS code written for you, so you can analyze the font weight used or particular style details.

Typewar.com

Want to have fun while learning about font pairing? Well, an important part of that process is to learn by heart the most used typefaces. Typewar is a website that offers a quiz showing different characters in multiple typefaces, with the input to choose between two font families. It is ideal to practice classic typefaces, and you will increase your knowledge in design by a great deal if you practice 10 minutes a day.

Typescale.com

One crucial aspect of working with text is knowing how to scale it properly. Since readability is critical, you should know when and where to use each font size. Typescale is a website that is intended for web designers and can help convert typefaces from pixels to rem . How is this useful for presenters? Well, since we won’t dwell in pixels and other units besides points (pt), this tool is ideal to tell if a text is legible from distance at the current size you assigned, or whether you should upscale or downscale the body text to make a better contrast with the headings. 

Finally, we conclude this section by introducing Coolors , a palette generator tool that helps designers come up with beautiful color schemes for their work. As we discussed in our color theory for presentations article, it is important to keep an eye on the colors we manage as they contribute to the psychological impact the presentation has on the audience.

Get used to generating creative PowerPoint color palettes for each presentation to make them unique, or help your brand to tailor cooperative slides to the appropriate PowerPoint theme that matches the company’s logo. 

As you can see, getting ready to make a presentation isn’t just an easy feat that can be accomplished in minutes if you aim for custom-made solutions rather than sticking to PowerPoint templates . Increasing your knowledge of font pairing and its proper usage will certainly boost your performance as a presenter, making you less prone to a design faux-pas that diverts the attention from your content.

We recommend you to visit our tutorials on how to add fonts to PowerPoint and how to add fonts to Google Slides . We hope this guide brings light to a complex topic like working with design decisions in presentations and see you next time.

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15 Best Fonts for Impactful Presentations in 2024

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In the world of presentations, every detail counts, and the font you choose is no exception. As we enter 2024, the choice of font has become an integral part of presentation design, profoundly impacting how your message is received and perceived. 

Fonts do more than just display text; they set the tone, convey emotion, and can significantly affect audience engagement and information retention. Whether you deliver a corporate report, a creative pitch, or an educational seminar, the right font can elevate your presentation from good to great.

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It is key to understand the psychology behind font choices and their impact on audience perception. Different fonts can evoke different feelings – a serif font might convey tradition and reliability, while a sans serif font often represents modernity and simplicity. But with countless fonts available, how do you choose the right one for your presentation?

In this blog, we will explore the “15 Best Fonts for Impactful Presentations in 2024,” covering a range of styles from professional and authoritative serif fonts to sleek and modern sans serifs, and even creative script and decorative options. 

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Doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned presenter or just starting, CustomShow is easy to use and anyone can create amazing dynamic presentations with it.

The use of a presentation tool and a guide like this blog will help you make informed decisions about font selection, ensuring your presentations are not only visually appealing but also effective in communicating your message. 

Let’s dive into the world of typography and discover how the right font can transform your next presentation .

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The Psychology of Fonts:

Understanding the psychological impact of different fonts is crucial in tailoring the mood and message of your sales presentation . Fonts carry their personality and character; for instance, serif fonts like Times New Roman or Garamond are often perceived as traditional and reliable, making them suitable for formal or corporate presentations. 

On the other hand, sans serif fonts like Helvetica or Arial exude a more modern and clean vibe, ideal for contemporary and straightforward presentations . Script fonts, while elegant and expressive, can inject a personal touch, suitable for creative or narrative-driven content. 

The key lies in aligning the font’s inherent qualities with the tone and purpose of your great presentation , ensuring that the typography complements and enhances your message, rather than distracting from it.

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Top 5 serif fonts for presentations:, a. overview of serif fonts:.

Serif fonts, characterized by small lines or strokes attached to the end of larger strokes in letters, are often associated with professionalism, credibility, and tradition. These fonts are a staple in various presentation contexts, particularly suited for formal, academic, or corporate settings where clarity and authority are paramount. 

The presence of serifs makes these fonts exceptionally legible in printed formats and detailed slides, making them a reliable choice for conveying important information with gravitas.

B. Top 5 Serif Fonts for 2024:

Each of these serif fonts brings a unique flavor to presentations, enabling presenters to align their visual style with their content and audience expectations. These top serif fonts of 2024 offer compelling choices for impactful presentations.

Times New Roman

A classic choice, Times New Roman remains a staple in the professional world. Its straightforward, no-nonsense appearance is perfect for financial reports, legal presentations, and academic lectures.

Known for its elegant and timeless look, Garamond is ideal for presentations that require a touch of sophistication without sacrificing readability. It works well for literary topics, historical content, and high-end corporate presentations.

Designed specifically for digital readability, Georgia is a versatile serif font that is equally effective on screen and in print. Its slightly rounded features and ample spacing make it a great choice for webinars and online presentations.

Baskerville

Offering a balance of sharpness and elegance, Baskerville works well for presentations that aim to impress and engage. Its professional demeanor is suited for high-level business presentations, academic conferences, and professional seminars.

Top 5 Sans Serif Fonts for Presentations

A. exploring the appeal of sans serif fonts:.

Sans serif fonts, known for their clean lines and absence of decorative strokes, have become increasingly popular in modern presentations. 

Their simplicity and clarity make them ideal for digital screens, where legibility is paramount.

The minimalist design of sans serif fonts lends a contemporary and approachable feel, making them suitable for a wide range of presentation contexts, from tech startups to creative agencies. 

B. Top 5 Sans Serif Fonts for 2024:

Each of these sans serif fonts offers a clean and modern aesthetic, ideal for a variety of contemporary presentation styles. These top sans serif fonts of 2024 can help enhance your message with style and clarity.

A widely used sans serif font, Arial is known for its versatility and readability. It’s a safe and professional choice for business presentations, especially when dealing with diverse and international audiences.

Renowned for its clean, crisp lines, Helvetica is a favorite for branding and marketing presentations. Its neutral yet appealing character makes it perfect for conveying modern professionalism.

Designed specifically for digital readability, Roboto offers a harmonious balance between mechanical and geometric forms. This font is ideal for tech-focused presentations or any content meant to be consumed on digital platforms.

As a default font in many applications, Calibri is familiar and comfortable for most audiences. Its soft, rounded curves are suitable for both corporate and casual presentations, making it a versatile choice.

Known for its friendly and legible appearance, Open Sans works well in both print and digital formats. It’s particularly effective for educational content, webinars, and instructional presentations, where clarity is crucial.

Top 5 Script and Decorative Fonts for Creative Presentations

A. when and how to use script and decorative fonts effectively:.

Script and decorative fonts are perfect for adding a unique flair and personality to your presentations, especially in creative or less formal contexts. As an SEO consultant , I find these fonts work best for titles, headers, or special emphasis, where their elaborated poster design adds impact without being overwhelming if used sparingly.

The key is to use them sparingly and balance them with more straightforward fonts for body text. They are ideal for presentations in the arts, fashion, entertainment sectors, or digital signage , where visual impact is as crucial as the content itself. Remember, the goal is to enhance your presentation’s aesthetic appeal without sacrificing readability.

B. Showcasing the Top 5 Script and Decorative Fonts for 2024:

These top script and decorative fonts for 2024 can add a distinctive character to your presentations, making them memorable and engaging. While they offer creative freedom, it’s crucial to balance their decorative nature with the functional aspects of your presentation.

Known for its playful and bold style, Lobster is perfect for titles and headings, giving your presentation a touch of modern elegance.

Pacifico offers a relaxed and friendly vibe, ideal for casual or creative presentations where a personal touch is desired.

Great Vibes

This elegant script font adds a sophisticated flair to any presentation, suitable for wedding planners, fashion brands, or upscale events .

Dancing Script

As the name suggests, Dancing Script brings a dynamic and lively feel to your slides, great for engaging and informal presentations.

A bold and contemporary brush script, Brusher is ideal for making a statement in creative and artistic presentations.

Accessibility and Readability

The accessibility and readability of fonts cannot be overstated. Selecting fonts that are easily legible is crucial not only for effective communication but also for inclusivity, ensuring that your content is accessible to all audience members, including those with visual impairments.

A key tip is to opt for fonts with clear, distinct characters, such as Arial or Calibri, and avoid overly stylized fonts that might cause readability issues. 

Additionally, consider the size and color contrast of your text against backgrounds; higher contrast and larger font sizes significantly enhance readability. 

Prioritizing these aspects in your font selection makes your dynamic presentation more user-friendly, ensuring that your message is conveyed clearly and effectively to every member of your audience.

Font Pairing Strategies

Effective font pairing is an art that can significantly enhance the aesthetic appeal and clarity of your presentation. 

A best practice is to combine a serif font with a sans serif font, balancing tradition with modernity. For example, pairing a classic serif like Times New Roman for headings with a clean sans serif like Arial for body text can create a visually appealing and readable layout. 

Another strategy is to use two different weights or styles of the same font family, which provides visual variety while maintaining cohesion. 

Remember, the key to successful font pairing is contrast and harmony; the fonts should be distinct enough to create interest but similar enough to maintain a unified and professional look.

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Tips for Customizing Fonts

Customizing fonts effectively can elevate the uniqueness and brand alignment of your presentation. To achieve this, consider modifying font styles to match your brand’s personality. Here are the best 5 tips for customizing your fonts:

Align Font with Brand Personality: Choose a font that reflects your brand’s character. For a modern brand, go for a clean sans serif; for a traditional feel, opt for a classic serif.

Experiment with Font Weight and Size: Adjust the weight (bold, regular, light) and size of your font for emphasis and hierarchy within your presentation content.

Use Brand Colors: Customize your font color to match your brand’s palette, enhancing brand recognition and visual appeal.

Create Contrast for Emphasis: Pair contrasting fonts (like a bold headline with a light body text) to draw attention and create visual interest.

Leverage Typography Tools: Utilize tools like Adobe Fonts, Fontsz or Canva for advanced customizations, such as letter spacing, line height, and creating unique font styles .

Common Font Selection Mistakes to Avoid

When selecting fonts for presentations, a common pitfall to avoid is choosing style over legibility. Fonts that are overly decorative or stylized can detract from the clarity of your message, making it difficult for the audience to quickly process information. 

Another frequent mistake is using too many different fonts, which can create a disjointed and unprofessional look. Ideally, stick to a maximum of two to three complementary fonts. 

Additionally, avoid underestimating the importance of font size; too small fonts can be challenging to read, especially in larger rooms or on smaller screens. 

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Are you looking for the best PowerPoint fonts for your presentation? Fonts play a vital role in the readability and overall success of your presentation, and PowerPoint has several options to choose from. The fonts fall into four main categories that include: Serif, Sans Serif, Script and Decorative.

Whether you’re presenting a pitch deck to a group of investors, showing off your Q4 marketing plan, or creating sales enablement presentations for your team, fonts help to convey your message.

Below is a brief overview of the best PowerPoint fonts, including insights to help you determine the ideal font for your presentation.

As mentioned, there are four types of fonts to consider when looking at choosing the best font for your presentation. For simplicity, we’ve combined script and decorative together.

• Serif fonts are classic, known for their extra tail (or "feet") at the end of each letter. Popular Serifs are Times New Roman, Century, Bookman, Lucida, Garamond and more.
• Sans Serif fonts are those without the tail. The word "Sans" is French for without, and Serif refers to the extra tails. They include Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Tahoma and Century Gothic, etc.
• Script and decorative fonts seek to emulate handwriting and are mostly reserved for special presentations. Here are the top ten PowerPoint fonts you can use for your presentations.

What is the best font for PowerPoint? Let's take a look at some of the most popular ones!

Verdana is one of the easy choices for PowerPoint presentation fonts. It is a more recent font crafted in 1996 by Mathew Carter, for Microsoft, so you know it is optimized for the screen.

Its hallmarks include wide spaces and counters with tall lowercase letters that boost readability. Verdana is also one of the most compatible fonts available in almost all Windows and Mac computers.

Calibri is a popular Sans Serif font, second only to Arial, which it replaced in Microsoft Office 2007 to become the standard font used in the suit. Its use in PowerPoint presentations is favored for obvious reasons.

Calibri is simple and clear, with subtly rounded edges. It is the ideal choice when looking for a universal, readable Sans Serif PowerPoint font.

3. Palatino

Hermann Zapf designed Palatino back in 1949 based on type styles originating from the Italian Renaissance period. He was influenced by calligraphic works and created the Palatino font for advertising and print media headings.

Hermann also aimed to keep the font legible on low-quality paper and small-sized prints, including when viewed at a distance, making it ideal for PowerPoint presentation fonts. It is almost impossible to tell from Book Antiqua.

This font was designed for Microsoft and boasts the best clarity for presentations. Tahoma provides characters that are distinguishable from each other and looks more like Verdana, albeit tightly spaced for a more formal look.

Tahoma fonts came with Windows 95 and have since been used in PowerPoint presentations for their unique clarity and readability.

Georgia is highly regarded for its elegance and combines thick and thin strokes to provide well-spaced Serif characters. The font also features tall lowercase letters and has a classic look perfect for any presentation.

Georgia is the most similar font to Times New Roman, albeit bigger, making it ideal for presentations.

6. Gill Sans

Gill Sans is another classic presentation font that suits headers paired with Times New Roman body text. However, you can pair it with various other fonts.

It provides a warm and friendly appeal similar to that you find in Helvetica, another incredible choice for presentation fonts. There are multiple options, but Gill Sans MT remains the most uncomplicated and appealing in the family.

This font was designed with one goal in mind and that's to provide clean text without clutter on the screen. It was actually designed specifically for LCD monitors, so you know it’s optimized for presentations. Corbel is considered a "soft" font with curvy letterforms and old-style, lowercase numbers. The font is clean and clear, making it a natural choice for presentations that call for massive contrast. Its spacing also allows for readability at a distance.

It was released in 2005 to work with Microsoft's clear-type rendering, making it ideal for PowerPoint presentations. Corbel is quite similar to Candara, albeit more assertive with box dots (instead of circles) above lower cases for I and J.

The Segoe family of fonts is one of the best for presentations. It has been Microsoft's choice font for their logo and all other marketing materials, since the days of Windows Vista.

Segoe is quite similar to Verdana and maintains a warm, inviting look that's still airy and perfect on screens. The fonts feature wider spaces and heavier letters, making them ideal for headers.

9. Garamond

This is one of the oldest fonts around, created back in the 1500s by Claude Garamond. Rather than a font, this is a style of fonts that includes different options, such as Adobe Garamond, Garamond ITC and Monotype Garamond.

The Roman Style fonts feature horizontal bars for letter "e" and ascended verticals crafted so for legibility in print. They are perfect for body text and provide quick contrast between title and text.

10. Century Gothic

Lastly, we can’t end this list without mentioning Century Gothic. It’s a sans-serif typeface with a geometric style. It was released in 1991 by Monotype Imaging, designed to compete with the ever-famous Futura. It’s style is very similar to the competitor, but with a larger x-height.

Century Gothic is based on Monotype 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1936 and 1947. It’s noted as being useful in advertising, such as headlines, display work and small quantities of text. Open Sans and Montserrat are also good alternatives here, but are not available to Microsoft users.

7 Tips for Choosing PowerPoint Fonts

Here are seven tips to help you find the best PowerPoint fonts for your presentation:

1. Stick to Standard Fonts

There are several fonts that you can use for your presentation that can be downloaded for free or generated using a free font generator . However, you are better off choosing standard fonts, such as Calibri, Tahoma, Gill Sans and Garamond, or even Times New Roman and Constantia. People are already fond of these fonts and see them often, which is great for readability.

2. Consider Contrast

When it comes to both font types and colors, aim for high contrast!

For example, black and white font colors are the easiest to read, so you should choose black fonts for white backgrounds and vice versa. Same goes for a light font on a dark background, dark on light backgrounds.

Some font types are thin and lightweight, while others are dark and thick, so the decision depends on your presentation. Nonetheless, make sure you have plenty of contrast to ensure your audience can clearly read the copy—even if you're just sharing your PowerPoint online . (It's also important to note that dont size for presenation is key—make sure your that your audience can read the words on screen).

3. Consider font pairing

Font pairing is instrumental as it creates instant hierarchy. However, you need to find the right pair, or your presentation will look amateur.

The standard approach is to pair Serif with Sans Serif fonts, which are the two main categories advisable when creating a presentation . Though you are definitely not limited to those styles. The rule of thumb is to use one font group for headers and the other for bullet text.

4. Stay away from all-caps fonts

All caps presentation fonts are hard to read, especially when you have a block of text. Also… do you want your audience to think you’re yelling at them?! PROBABLY NOT.

Capitalizing everything is more suited to alarms and single-word warnings. When it comes to presentation, you need fonts that allow you to mix cases at will, so you should avoid all fonts available in caps only.

5. Choose the right size

It is always essential to make the font big enough so that everyone can see and read. When determining size, think about the presentation screen and how the fonts look on larger/smaller displays. Some fonts are large, while others can be significantly smaller. It is also crucial to determine how other aspects, such as line and character spacing, affect the font.

6. Avoid Scripts, Italics and Decorative Fonts

Typefaces taken from novelty, scripts and handwritings are some of the coolest. However, they present a readability issue that transcends all the merits for featuring such fonts in your presentation. They also distract the audience and are more suited to online content and media. Presentations require enhancements that make the text easier to read.

7. Create Consistency

Like other forms of art, presentations are best when simple, so there's no need to download a complete library of fonts. A couple of options used consistently throughout your presentation will suffice. Make sure the font sizes, headers, bullets and text are consistent from start to finish, especially if you are creating professional presentations.

There are no hard rules when it comes to picking fonts for presentations—even if you're working off of a PowerPoint template . If anything, your project will determine the ideal fonts you should use. The layout, background, images and other aspects will all influence your font options.

Nonetheless, if you stick to standard fonts and keep things relatively simple and consistent, you should have one of the best presentations, in terms of readability. In addition to the ten fonts above, Lato, Roboto, Rockwell, Frutiger and Helvetica are all perfect for PowerPoint presentation.

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30 Best PowerPoint Fonts for Powerful Presentations

Fonts in PowerPoint are a crucial design element for creating effective presentations. Choosing the right style, size, and color is essential for readability and visual appeal. It’s important to maintain consistency throughout your slides so everything looks professional and on point.

Once you’ve chosen a typeface, ensure readability through appropriate contrast between text and background. Consider size and proper alignment, as well as formatting options like bold or italics to emphasize key points. Don’t forget accessibility and font variety so everyone can enjoy your hard work with little to no problems!

Selecting and using fonts wisely in PowerPoint is essential to enhance the overall quality of your presentation. Prioritize readability and uniformity while aligning font choices with your content and audience. This creates an impactful, visually pleasing slide deck.

Best PowerPoint Fonts for Your Next Presentation

This sophisticated modern typeface from Yukita Creative is an excellent choice for fashion-oriented projects. Its graceful, slender letterforms lend themselves beautifully to branding and logo design.

With its low legibility height, it’s equally suitable for web design, advertising, and various communication materials. Supports 37 languages and includes OTF, TTF, and WOFF files.

Download Gullia

2. Oliviar Sans Italic Family

Inspired by geometrical fonts and humanist sans serifs, this font family by Adam Fathony consists of 7 styles (Thin, Ultralight, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Black) and different weights (from Thin [100] to Bold [900]). Ideal for minimalist and brutalist themes.

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3. GROTESKA

With influences from popular Swiss designs, this minimal sans-serif from Designova is clear and spartan by nature . You will get a total of 14 fonts spreading between 7 weights, featuring 7 uprights and matching italics for each weight. There’s also extended language support for your convenience. Contains OTF, TTF, and web fonts (all EOT, SVG, WOFF included).

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4. Ethos Nova

Introducing this sleek, neo-geometric sans-serif typeface family comprised of12 meticulously crafted fonts. Designed with precision and equipped with robust OpenType features, each weight offers extensive language support, encompassing Western European and Central European character sets, totaling 312 glyphs.

Whether you’re working on graphics, text presentations, websites, print materials, or corporate identities, this versatile typeface will deliver clean, minimalist results that wow!

Note: try increasing letter-spacing for uppercase characters when designing logos, labels, and headlines.

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This functional modern-grotesk font from UnioCS was inspired by the aesthetics of 1950’s Swiss rationalism. Featuring a monolinear solid design and a fusion of sharp and rounded curves, it presents a fresh take on the classic grotesque style while maintaining exceptional legibility – even when used in small sizes.

Rooted in rationalist principles, its style highlights its balanced variations. Ideal for anything requiring a professional flair, such as book covers, business cards, PowerPoint presentations, and logos.

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6. Sherika Font Family

Simple, legible, and warm, this sans serif font family from Seniors_Studio consists of 7 weights plus matching italics. The download file contains 14 styles (7 uprights and matching italics), 232 glyphs, and OpenType features, together with ligatures.

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A neo-grotesque typeface exuding a clean, enduring aesthetic. Ideal for crafting logotypes, branding elements, headlines, corporate identities, and marketing materials across web, digital, and print platforms.

By adjusting letter spacing, it can transform into the ideal choice for creating minimalistic headlines and logotypes. Pack contains 300 glyphs, handcrafted OpenType features, and extended language support.

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8. Univa Nova

Drawing inspiration from the Swiss design heritage, this font pays homage to the original branding projects that defined an era. It works great for an array of creative applications, including graphic design, text presentation, web development, print materials, and display purposes.

You will receive a total of 16 fonts having 8 weights (Hairline, Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Heavy) as well as Italic versions of each weight.

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9. JUST Sans

Warm, open, and expressive, this geometric typeface features open characters, a generous width, and an elegant contemporary feel with sharp, angled terminals.

Don’t underestimate its minimal aesthetic: it’s a workhorse with 7 weights, complete Latin extended language support, accurate hand-adjusted kerning, and a variable version for maximum adaptability.

Aside from legibility on displayed on screens, feel free to apply this endearing font on logos, headlines, paragraph text, user interfaces (UI), signage , packaging, posters, new media, architecture, and fashion.

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10. Architect

Meet this engaging digital typeface from epdesigns . Inspired by the nostalgic charm of early personal computers. This font is tailor-made for creating impactful headlines, logos, layouts, and content, adding a touch of retro appeal to your designs.

Architect effortlessly complements a variety of fonts, making it a versatile choice that seamlessly integrates with any project you’re working on.

Download Architect

Embodying confidence, showmanship, and speed, this bold racing font is all about limitless creative potential. From crafting logos and flyers to designing posters, headlines, sports-related materials, and even dynamic video content – let it fuel your concepts with energy and flair.

Download Pulse

12. Mammoth

If you’re tackling mammoth projects, look no further than this generously proportioned sans-serif. It offers both Regular and Outlined versions, along with lowercase letter options for each, allowing you to create original, attention-grabbing works.

From branding, photography, event invitations, to inspirational quotes, blog headers, posters, ads, and web design, this versatile typeface will be your go-to choice moving forward.

Download Mammoth

Looking for an elegant sans serif with incredible versatility? This typeface will not only capture attention but also elevate your works to new heights. Its applicability extends to fashion, packaging, branding, magazine layouts, headlines, social media posts, invitations, etc..

Plus, it boasts a collection of exquisite ligatures that will infuse charm into your designs!

Download Oyster

Inspired by the iconic magazine ads of the 70s and 80s, this font is set to become your ultimate choice for marketing, advertising, editorials, and branding. Craft attention-grabbing headlines that call for meticulous tracking. Download contains upper and lowercase letters, ensuring brilliant performance in both spacious and compact layouts.

Download Gnarly

15. Spring Melody

Featuring elegant curves, precise kerning, and sharp edges, this humanist typeface comes highly recommended for crafting vintage-inspired concepts.

Try it on branding, packaging, social media visuals, wedding invitations, ad materials, and editorial layouts. With its unmistakable charm, this typeface is sure to imbue your creations with a touch of extravagance!

Download Spring Melody

Take a captivating journey – not just for yourself but also for your audiences – back to the vibrant spirit of the 60s and 70s with this bold retro serif.

What distinguishes it are its gentle, rounded corners and delightful, flowing curves. Tailor-made for modern-day designers, you will find that you can’t get enough of all things vintage after using it!

Download Rolla

17. Grayson

This art deco typeface was influenced by the stylish store signs that adorned the streets of London, New York, and other bustling metropolises during the 1940s.

With its clean lines, effortless readability, and unforgettable letterforms, it’s an ideal choice for branding. The font pack includes both OTF and TTF versions, ensuring flexibility and ease of use.

Download Grayson

18. Isabella

Minimalist, elegant, and pristine – this modern sans radiates sophistication. Allow it to grace your logos, titles, and invitations, among others. It also complements script typefaces seamlessly, allowing for flexible design combinations.

The pack contains an extensive set of features, encompassing uppercase and lowercase characters, ligatures, alternates, numerals, as well as a rich assortment of punctuation and symbols.

Download Isabella

19. Redhawk

Let the details speak for itself in this cutting-edge futuristic font tailored for sci-fi and tech-themed projects. The possibilities are as limitless as the future it represents. With its minimalist aesthetic and unique letterforms, it’s fitting for a wide range of applications, such as labels, posters, branding, cinematic works, magazines, packaging, books, and video games.

Download Redhawk

20. Golden Hooge

This typeface from Aqeel-Art draws inspiration from the renowned minimalist logo design. With it, you can effortlessly craft beautiful templates, brochures, videos, advertisements, branding materials, logos, invitations, and more. PUA Encoded and includes multilingual support. Compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Corel Draw.

Download Golden Hooge

21. Basted Club

With influences from the typography style of old nightclubs, this vintage font family exudes a classic appeal with its robust, steadfast letterforms. Comprising of Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, and Black variations, this font is a versatile choice for tackling anything that needs a clean but bold visual impact. You will get OTF and TTF formats.

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22. Next Sphere

Andikafezco gives you this super extended, futuristic display font family in 9 styles (Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, and Black). Combine 2 or 3 looks to see impressive results. It’s best used on themes that focus on sci-fi, high-fashion, architecture, brutalist, tech, and spartan vibes.

Download Next Sphere

23. Twinton

Crisp and minimalist, this unique font is handmade for contemporary designs. Crafted for maximum legibility, it allows your content to make a bold statement with ease. You’ll be confident showing it off on headlines, business cards, thumbnails, social media graphics, posters, and cover designs. Use it to elevate your design game today.

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A captivating serif display font that absolutely refuses to blend into the background. Unlike fonts that opt for subtlety, this bold, dynamic font radiates extroverted energy.

You’ll have access to both Bold and Regular variations for convenience. It’s an excellent choice for wedding invitations, magazine layouts, book covers, packaging designs, websites, user-friendly mobile apps, logos, and more.

Download Avalar

Presenting a contemporary yet refined font characterized by its sleek lines and graceful curves. With 6 different weights, it introduces timeless beauty and sophistication – be it branding, web design, or print. Its exceptional legibility renders it appropriate for both display and body text, so you achieve clear and poignant communication.

Download Amenti

26. Estrella

With its graceful curves and precise lines, this contemporary sans serif will inject a touch of sophistication into any project. You can’t go wrong with its professional and polished aesthetic that comes in 6 weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black).

And because it remains legible whether used on headlines or body text, you can rest easy knowing your logos, websites, business cards, posters, and editorials are in good hands. Sleek, stylish, and highly elegant, it will surely set your work apart from the competition.

Download Estrella

Boasting a contemporary, exquisite, and uncluttered look, this modern typeface will definitely add a sense of whimsy into every project. Its fresh, straightforward lines imbue a timeless quality, while its graceful curves deliver a distinctive visual allure.

It’s ideal for branding, product packaging, websites, and logos. However, feel free to experiment and see just where this typeface will take you!

Download Wanafi

28. Endzone Express

Don’t settle for the ordinary when you can have this sporty serif. amp up your game and get ready to express your active, bold side with its geometric lines and thick, robust presence.

See it perform its best on team jerseys, motivational posters, and sports-themed branding materials. Unleash your creativity with this exceptional font that perfectly embodies the essence of triumph!

Download Endzone Express

29. Northura

Challenge your perception of conventional typography with this ultramodern sans-serif. With a staggering variety of 30 weights, it seamlessly blends minimalism, aesthetics, and readability, providing you with precise control over your design.

While it excels in minimalist and futuristic contexts, it’s also an excellent option for contemporary, travel, business, and sports-related projects.

Download Northura

30. Overdrive

Give your works the feel of Italian racing using this automobile-inspired font. Radiating sheer elegance, it provides generous spacing for use on logotypes, headlines, presentations, and promotional materials. It will also look gorgeous on minimalist and science-fiction themes. Get it today and rev up your imagination!

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Curious to know which fonts can transform your presentation from ordinary to extraordinary? There are many fonts capable of doing that but you need to choose the best font type for your presentation . So let’s get started:

10 Best Fonts for Presentations

Garamond, a classic serif font, is renowned for its timeless elegance and readability. With refined serifs and a well-balanced design, Garamond imparts a sense of sophistication to presentations. This font is an excellent choice when you want to convey a traditional and professional tone, creating a visually appealing and polished look for your slides.

Palatino, a classic serif font, exudes sophistication and readability. Its well-defined serifs and balanced letterforms contribute to an elegant and timeless aesthetic. Palatino is an excellent choice for presentations where a touch of traditional style and formality is desired, enhancing the visual appeal of your slides.

Proxima Nova:

Proxima Nova is a modern sans-serif font celebrated for its clean and versatile design. With a harmonious balance between rounded and straight letterforms, Proxima Nova presents a contemporary and professional appearance. Its adaptability makes it suitable for a wide range of presentation themes, ensuring a sleek and polished visual impression.

Segoe, a sans-serif font developed by Microsoft, is known for its clean and modern look. With rounded letterforms and balanced proportions, Segoe offers a friendly and approachable aesthetic, making it ideal for professional presentations. Its versatility and legibility across various screen sizes contribute to a seamless visual experience.

Corbel, another Microsoft font, is a clean and straightforward sans-serif typeface. With its minimalistic design and even spacing, Corbel ensures clarity and readability in presentations. Its modern appearance adds a touch of professionalism, making it a reliable choice for a clean and contemporary visual style.

Rockwell, a slab serif font, brings a bold and robust presence to presentations . With its thick and distinctive serifs, Rockwell conveys a sense of strength and impact. This font is an excellent choice when you want to emphasize key points and create a memorable visual impact in your slides.

Bentham, a serif font with classical influences, adds a touch of historical elegance to presentations. Its well-defined serifs and balanced letterforms create a refined and sophisticated look. Bentham is a suitable choice when you want to infuse your slides with a sense of tradition and formality.

Fonseca is a contemporary sans-serif font with a geometric influence. Its clean lines, rounded shapes, and generous spacing create a modern and friendly appearance. Fonseca is a versatile choice that brings a sense of freshness and simplicity to your presentation, ensuring both style and readability.

Bell MT, a classic serif font, is characterized by its timeless elegance and refined details. With well-crafted serifs and balanced letterforms, Bell MT adds a touch of sophistication to presentations. This font is an excellent choice when you want to convey a sense of tradition and professionalism.

Tahoma, a sans-serif font designed for on-screen legibility, combines clarity with a modern look. Its sturdy letterforms and even spacing enhance readability, making Tahoma a practical choice for presentations. The font’s neutrality ensures that your content remains accessible and easy to follow.

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10 Most Popular Fonts for Presentations

Raleway is a modern sans-serif font known for its clean and elegant appearance. With its thin, sleek lines, it exudes a contemporary and professional vibe, making it ideal for presentations. The minimalistic design ensures clarity and readability, enhancing the visual appeal of your slides.

Lato is a versatile sans-serif font recognized for its friendly and approachable style. Its balanced letterforms and open spacing contribute to easy readability, even in small font sizes. Lato’s warmth adds a touch of friendliness to your presentation while maintaining a professional and polished look.

Calibri, a default font in Microsoft Office, is widely chosen for presentations due to its clear and straightforward design. Its rounded shapes and moderate spacing result in a friendly yet professional aesthetic. Calibri is a safe and practical choice, ensuring that your content remains easily accessible to a broad audience.

Verdana is a sans-serif font designed for on-screen readability. Its bold and simple letterforms make it an excellent choice for presentations, especially when projected. The generous spacing between characters enhances legibility, ensuring that your audience can effortlessly follow your content, even from a distance.

Georgia, a serif font, brings a touch of sophistication to presentations. Its robust letterforms and distinct serifs make it suitable for conveying a classic and formal tone. Georgia is an excellent choice when you want to add a bit of traditional elegance to your slides while maintaining readability.

Poppins is a contemporary sans-serif font with a geometric feel. Its rounded letterforms and ample spacing create a friendly and modern look, making it well-suited for a variety of presentation styles. Poppins add a touch of personality to your slides while ensuring clarity and visual appeal.

Coolvetica:

Coolvetica is a stylish and edgy sans-serif font that injects a sense of creativity into your presentations. With its bold letterforms and unique character shapes, Coolvetica is perfect for conveying a modern and unconventional vibe. It’s an excellent choice when you want your presentation to stand out with a touch of artistic flair.

Roboto, designed for Google, is a versatile sans-serif font that combines neutrality with modern aesthetics. Its clean lines and balanced proportions contribute to a professional and contemporary look, making it suitable for a wide range of presentation topics. Roboto excels in delivering a clean and polished visual impression to your audience.

Helvetica is a versatile sans-serif font known for its clean and modern design. Its neutral and balanced letterforms make it a timeless choice for presentations across various themes. Helvetica provides a professional and straightforward appearance, ensuring clarity and readability in your slides. Its simplicity allows for easy integration into a wide range of design styles.

Avenir, a contemporary sans-serif font, combines elegance with modernity. With its rounded letterforms and well-proportioned design, Avenir offers a sophisticated and approachable look for presentations. The font’s versatility allows it to adapt seamlessly to different visual styles, making it a popular choice for creating polished and professional slides with a touch of modern flair.

Factors to Consider When Choosing Fonts

Clear legibility:.

Ensure your chosen fonts are easy on the eyes. Opt for clear, readable typefaces to prevent any visual hiccups, allowing your content to be effortlessly absorbed by your audience.

Visual Consistency:

Stick to a consistent font style throughout your slides. Choosing a clear distinction between titles and body text maintains a visual uniformity that guides your audience smoothly through your presentation.

Strategic Contrast:

Create visual interest by smartly pairing fonts. Use bold, attention-grabbing typefaces for headers, complemented by more subtle, easy-to-read fonts for the body. Striking the right balance adds a touch of sophistication without overwhelming your audience.

Brand Alignment:

Align your fonts with your brand identity. Consistent use of brand-appropriate typefaces reinforces a professional image and helps with brand recognition, ensuring your presentation resonates with authenticity.

Universal Accessibility:

Prioritize fonts that enhance accessibility for all. Choose designs that are clear and legible, considering factors like color contrast and font size to ensure inclusivity across various devices and audiences.

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint

Step 1: download the custom font.

• Visit a reputable website offering a range of custom fonts, both free and paid.
• Explore the font collection and pick the ones that suit your preferences.
• Download the font files in a compatible format, such as .TTF or .OTF.

Step 2: Incorporate the Custom Font

Both Mac and Windows have different ways of incorporating fonts, let’s see both of the ways:

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint For Windows:

a. Extract the font files from any compressed folders, such as .zip.

b. Right-click on each font file and choose “Install.”

How to Install Custom Fonts in PowerPoint For Mac:

a. Launch Font Book, the default font management application on macOS.

b. Drag and drop the font files into the Font Book window.

c. The fonts will automatically install, becoming accessible in PowerPoint.

Step 3: Reboot PowerPoint

Close and reopen PowerPoint to ensure the newly installed fonts are recognized and ready for use.

Step 4: Implement Custom Fonts in PowerPoint

• Open the PowerPoint presentation where you wish to employ the custom fonts.
• Select the text box or text element you want to format.
• Navigate to the “Home” tab on the PowerPoint ribbon, and locate the “Font” section.
• Click on the drop-down menu for “Font” and opt for the custom font you want to apply.

You will be done with installing the custom font in PowerPoint.

Frequently Asked Questions:

The best font for presentations is often considered to be a sans-serif font like Arial or Helvetica. These fonts are clean, easy to read, and work well on slides, ensuring clarity and professionalism.

A good font combination for a presentation involves pairing a sans-serif font for titles and headers with a serif font for body text. For example, pairing Arial with Times New Roman can create a visually appealing and balanced look, enhancing readability and engagement.

The best fonts for PowerPoint 2023 are Raleway, Lato, Calibri, and Verdana. These fonts are standard choices, providing a modern and clean aesthetic for your slides.

The font in a presentation matters significantly as it affects readability and audience engagement. Choosing a clear and professional font ensures that your message is conveyed effectively without distractions, helping to maintain the audience’s focus on the content.

Some popular newspaper fonts include Times New Roman, Georgia, and Garamond. These fonts are classic, legible, and convey a sense of tradition, making them well-suited for the printed page.

Professional fonts often include Arial, Helvetica, Calibri, and Garamond. These fonts are widely accepted in business and academic settings for their clarity, readability, and timeless appeal, making them suitable for a variety of documents, presentations, and other professional materials.

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The 10 best fonts for presentations

Elevate your slidedeck with these fonts, perfect for presentations.

Even if you know your subject, giving a presentation in front of a bunch of strangers can often be nerve-wracking. So it helps to have a series of eye-catching slides to keep you on track and engage your audience. And key to that is picking the best fonts for presentations, which need to tick a number of boxes (you can't just pick any old free font available).

We've found a selection of fonts great for presentations. Most of these are standard system fonts in PowerPoint and many are included in the Windows or Mac operating systems, which means they're licenced for your own personal use. However, if you want to use them as web fonts on a website, or in client work, you will need to license them, so we've included download links too.

What makes a good presentation font?

First, they need to be clear and legible, even at a distance. Secondly, they need to be attractive and eye-catching. Thirdly, they need to convey a polished and appropriate tone for the context of your presentation. And fourthly, they should be widely available, or at least easy to embed, to avoid formatting issues.

In short, whether you're crafting a business pitch, an academic lecture, or a creative showcase, choosing the best font for presentations can make all the difference. In this article, we'll explore 10 great options.

01. Helvetica

• System font in Powerpoint?: Yes
• Preinstalled on Windows? No
• Preinstalled on macOS: Yes
• Download Helvetica from MyFonts

Helvetica might not be the most exciting choice of fonts. But this classic sans-serif, which is named after the Latin word for ‘Switzerland', is nothing if not reliable. Its clean, neutral and versatile nature means conveys an instant sense of professionalism, without drawing unnecessary attention to itself. And that makes it an excellent choice for presentations of all kinds

There's a reason why Helvetica remains hugely popular, 67 years on from its creation: its letterforms are well balanced are balanced between top and bottom, making them highly legible, even at smaller sizes or when projected. Moreover, its wide range of weights and styles allows for flexibility in creating visual hierarchies within your slides.

So whether you're presenting financial data, marketing strategies, or creative concepts, Helvetica will help you share your words in a way that your audience will find easy to read. And isn't that the most important thing?

In short, if you're looking for a modern, straightforward, and universally appealing typeface for your presentations, Helvetica is a worthy contender.

• System font in Powerpoint?: No
• Preinstalled on macOS: No
• Download Futura from MyFonts

Want to give a bold, dynamic edge to your presentation? Then the geometric sans-serif Futura is a good choice. Its clean lines and perfect circles are based on simple shapes, giving it a distinctive and memorable appearance, and strong visual impact. This makes it an especially good option for headlines and key points you want to emphasise.

At the same time, Futura's clarity and legibility at various sizes will ensure that your message comes across effectively, whether you're presenting on a large projector screen or remotely through your audience's laptops.

In short, when you want to convey themes such as disruption, transformation and a contemporary outlook, in fields such as technology, architecture and design, Futura can help your presentation stand out, while still being very legible and accessible.

03. Garamond

• Download Garamond from MyFonts

Does your presentation call for a touch of elegance and tradition? Then you'll probably want to go for a serif, and Garamond is an excellent option.

With its roots in 16th-century typography, this font will instantly give a sense of sophistication and timelessness to your slides. At the same time, this iconic typeface remains highly legible, especially in its more recent digital adaptations. Its refined serifs and varied stroke weights create a pleasant rhythm that's easy on the eyes, making it work for both headlines and body text.

For these reasons, Garamond will work particularly well for academic talks, presentations on literary topics, or any content that benefits from a more formal tone. In other words, if you want to convey authority and knowledge while maintaining readability, it's a great option.

04. Montserrat

• Download Montserrat from Google Fonts

Is your presentation topic one that's innovative, pioneering, or even game-changing? Then you'll want a font to match, and Montserrat could fit the bill.

Inspired by old posters and signs in Buenos Aires, this eye-catching geometric sans-serif offers a combination of clean, modern letterforms and varied weights. Its crisp edges and open counters contribute to excellent legibility, while its geometric roots give it a contemporary feel. This makes it a great choice for presentations in creative industries, startups, or any other context where a fresh, dynamic tone is required.

Montserrat boasts an extensive family, including various weights and styles, allowing for a creative to typography hierarchies within your slides. So if you want your presentation to feel current and energetic while maintaining clarity and professionalism, it's well worth giving a try.

05. Palatino

• Download Palatino from MyFonts

If you're aiming for a balance between reassuring tradition and exciting forward-thinking in your presentation, you'll be looking for a font that sits somewhere between traditional and modern design. In which case we recommend Palatino.

This versatile book serif combines the readability of classic Roman typefaces with subtle calligraphic touches. And that makes it well positioned for presentations that require a professional, scholarly tone without appearing overly formal.

Palatino's defined letterforms ensure clarity even at smaller sizes, making it suitable for both headlines and body copy. It works well on screens, and maintains its elegance and readability when projected. And all this makes it a worthy option for presentations in fields like law, academia or the arts.

06. Calibri

• Preinstalled on Windows? Yes
• Download Calibri from MyFonts

One of the biggest stresses surrounding presentations is the idea that things will go wrong technically, especially if you're using unfamiliar equipment. So if safety is your priority then good news: Calibri isn't just the default font for Microsoft PowerPoint, it's an excellent design choice as well.

This sans-serif has a warm, soft and friendly tone without sacrificing professionalism and legibility, thanks to its slightly rounded edges and open letterforms. It's also a font that adapts easily to different themes and colour schemes. And this means it work well in both corporate and creative presentations.

Perhaps most significantly, Calibri's widespread availability across systems means you're less likely to encounter formatting issues when sharing your presentation. So if you're seeking a safe, versatile and universally compatible font that still looks current, Calibri is the one we'd recommend.

• Download Roboto from Google Fonts

Do you value legibility above all else? Then you can't go wrong with Roboto. Developed by Google, Roboto, this neo-grotesque sans-serif is perfect for designing clear, legible text on screens that need to be readable from a distance, or at small sizes.

Roboto was developed by Google as the system font for Android , and its modern, professional appearance makes it suitable for a wide range of topics and industries. Moreover, its extensive family includes condensed and slab serif versions, which gives you a lot of flexibility in creating visual hierarchies and emphasis within your slides.

In short, Roboto is an excellent choice for presentations that need to look contemporary and function flawlessly.

• Download Avenir from MyFonts

If you want to appear warm and friendly, but also cutting-edge, Avenir (meaning "future" in French) is a good font to consider. This geometric sans-serif is similar to Monserrat in that it combines modernist style with humanist touches, and its superb legibility across various sizes makes it versatile for both headlines and body copy.

As such, Avenir would works particularly well for presentations in fields such as technology, healthcare or education. When you want your slides to appear contemporary and polished, yet accessible and inviting, Avenir does a good job of squaring that particular circle.

09. Baskerville

• Download Baskerville from FontSquirrel

Here's another great choice for excluding elegance and authority. Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface with refined forms and high contrast between thick and thin strokes. This all adds up to a dignified, sophisticated appearance, making it a good choice for conveying trustworthiness and expertise.

Baskerville clear, open letterforms ensure good readability on screens, particularly for longer text passages, and this font would works exceptionally well for academic or literary presentations, along with businesses looking to project a sense of heritage and quality.

In other words, if you want your audience to perceive your content as thoughtful, well-researched, and credible, Baskerville can help set the right tone.

10. Georgia

• Download Georgia from MyFonts

Will your talk be viewed remotely? Then try Georgia; a serif designed specifically for on-screen readability, making it great for digital presentations. Its larger x-height and open letterforms ensure clarity even at smaller sizes, covering you if your slides are being viewed on a smaller laptop or tablet.

These letterforms are sturdy enough to render well on various screen resolutions while still providing the traditional, trustworthy feel associated with serif fonts. This makes Georgia when you require a more formal tone while remaining highly legible on a variety of screens. For talks in fields such as journalism, publishing or any other content-heavy topic, it's a good balance between classic style and readability.

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20 Best Fonts for Professional or Business PowerPoint Slides: Adios! You Won’t See Arial and Times New Roman Anymore

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Have you read our old post about ‘ Font Pairing Tips and Tricks for Dummies ’? If not, we highly recommend you take a quick look at that typography article. Why is it so? Fonts have as big an influence on design manner as visuals.

Beautiful presentation visuals can all be undermined by poorly chosen typefaces. Hence, you must use a font that follows the rest of your design style, the personality, and the right voice you’re trying to convey.

This insight from PitchPro team will help you determine the ideal font before creating your presentation design project using these 20 best fonts for Professional PowerPoint. Good luck!

Best fonts for professional PowerPoint

There are four types of fonts to analyze when looking to choose the best fonts for professional PowerPoint. Shortly, we merged Script and Decorative fonts.

Serif fonts

Serif fonts are traditional ones. They are known for their extra tail (or “feet”) at the end of each letter. Popular Serifs are Times New Roman, Century, Bookman, Lucida, Garamond, and more.

Sans Serif fonts

Sans Serif fonts are those without the tail. The word “Sans” is French for without, and Serif refers to the extra tails. They include Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, and Century Gothic.

Script and decorative fonts

These fonts try to follow handwriting and are mostly reserved for special presentations. Here, you will see the 20 best fonts for professional PowerPoint you can use for your presentations.

What are the best fonts for professional PowerPoint? Let’s have a look at some of the most popular ones!

Using the best fonts for professional PowerPoint is favored for obvious reasons.

It is the ideal choice when looking for a universal, readable Sans Serif PowerPoint font.

See also: 20 Best Creative Custom Fonts PowerPoint Design

Helvetica font family is in its neutral, a font that can blend into any style, like that of a chameleon but in the font world. 

If I could summarise Helvetica in one sentence, it would be: “Clarity with complete simplicity.” In presentations, Helvetica is powerful and can add real impact, but it doesn’t take over the limelight.

Next, one of the oldest fonts created in the 16th century in France by Claude Garamond led the whole European typography.

This font family is worth choosing for companies not chasing trends and making the identity look refined and elegant.

Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface created by Paul Renner and published in 1927.

This font is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design trends of the period.

See also: What Are Sans Serif Fonts? Don’t Get Stuck in the “Serif = Traditional, Sans Serif = Modern” Mindset

Gill Sans was created by British graphic artist and sculptor Eric Gill.

Another Sans Serif font, Gill Sans, gives a friendly and warm look without being too overstressed. Some refer to Gill Sans as ‘the British Helvetica.’

Rockwell font was developed with Monotype Design Studio in 1934, which saw the return to the reputation of slab serif fonts. Rockwell’s strong and friendly characters make this font particularly adaptable.

This font is ready in nine different variations: italics, different weights, and condensed font versions.

Verdana is one of the easy choices of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint. It is a more recent font crafted in 1996 by Mathew Carter for Microsoft, so you know it is optimized for the screen.

Its symbols include wide spaces and counters with tall lower-case letters that increase readability.

In fact, you can use a font like Fira Sans as both your header and body font, with different fonts in the mix to create only an accent font.

While this font is suitable in both normal and bold weights for most of the slide content, we see a nice serif launched as well to balance the single presentation font.

Hermann Zapf created Palatino back in 1949 based on type styles starting from the Italian Renaissance era.

Hermann also intended to keep the font readable on low-quality paper and small-sized prints, including when viewed at a distance, making it the perfect fonts for professional PowerPoint presentation.

Tahoma provides separable characters from each other and looks more like Verdana, albeit tightly spaced for a more formal appearance.

Tahoma fonts arrived with Windows 95 and have since been used in professional PowerPoint presentations for their uniqueness, clarity, and readability.

Georgia is highly appreciated for its beauty and blends thick and thin strokes to give well-spaced Serif characters.

Georgia is the most similar font to Times New Roman, albeit bigger, making it ideal for presentations.

This font was produced with one purpose in mind, and that’s to give clean text without confusion on the screen. It was created particularly for LCD monitors, so you know it’s optimized for any presentation project. 

The font is neat and clean, making it a reasonable choice for any professional PowerPoint presentation that calls for large contrast. Also, its spacing allows for readability at a distance.

The Segoe family of fonts is one of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. 

Segoe is pretty similar to Verdana and maintains a warm, inviting look, and that’s still spacious and precise on screens.

Century Gothic

Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface with a geometrical style. Monotype Imaging published it in 1991, created to fight with the ever-famous Futura. Its style is very similar to the rival but with a larger x-height.

Importantly, this font is useful in advertising, such as headlines, display work, and small quantities of text.

We’ve all seen a million and two presentations using conventional fonts like Arial and Times New Roman.

Plus, Lato’s variety of weights is ready – from thin to light to bold, which helps to increase this font’s overall interest.

Roboto is one of the other great fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. This font is yet another basic sans-serif font that works beyond many industries and types of presentations.

This font style is the perfect font to use for body text. The main body paragraphs are easy to read with this font in professional nuance and well designed.

Montserrat is our favorite font for us here at RRGraph Design.

Besides, this font will let them know what to expect each time you move to a new slide. However, it’s one of the top font selections you can apply for the headings on your professional PowerPoint presentation.

We commonly use Open Sans fonts for professional PowerPoint presentation , especially for body paragraphs due to their legibility.

However, we shouldn’t cut Open Sans like only a paragraph typeface. You can also use it in professional PowerPoint presentations to help your headings stand out sharply.

Libre-Baskerville

Libre-Baskerville is a serif font style with several other fonts and color schemes to create a more traditional look and feel for your slides. 

However, you also can use this font in body paragraphs easily, as it’s clear, legible, and readable.

It has developed in reputation and become something like the “Helvetica of the free fonts.” The family has four new members – Thin, Light, Book, and Regular – added by Fontfabric Type Foundry.

The new weights stay true to the style and grace of Bebas with the familiar clean lines, elegant shapes, a blend of technical straightforwardness, and simple warmth, which make it consistently proper for web, print, commerce, and art.

Are you choosing a font for headings or body text?

The first thing to think about is where you choose a font for headings or body text – does it need to be clearly understandable in longer paragraphs and smaller sizes? Or can you afford to go bigger? Are you looking for a bigger, more impactful slide title?

Whether your font is for the heading or body text will help inform your answer to the next question.

Serif or Sans Serif?

Serif fonts have tiny ticks or ‘wings’ at the end of their lines. Usually, they correlate with strictness, business-like, intellectual content. On the other hand, sans-serif fonts – have no marks on the ends of their lines, and we usually see them as modern, smooth, and clean.

The general sense is that serif fonts are better for print and body text, as the serifs lead the eye from one character to the next, like joined handwriting. Instead, sans serif fonts are better for titles and text displayed on a screen. But these are not complex and fast precepts!

The popular opinion is to pick one of each; possibly titles will be sans serif, and body text will be serif, but it’s up to you. You can determine what feels suitable for your brand. Do you want to appeal to tradition, create an intelligent vibe with a serif font, or want your text to feel fresh, speaking of technology, and progress with a sans serif choice? This leads to your final consideration.

See also: The Only Guide You Need to Download and Install Fonts for Professional PowerPoint

What about custom fonts.

Sometimes what we want is not the ordinary, the comforting, the Arial, and the Times New Roman; sometimes, we want something diverse. This is your opportunity to reach the almost endless world of the best fonts for professional PowerPoint presentations. Here, you can find fonts to fit nearly any reasonable necessity. There will be a custom font for you, from timeless, elegant, crisp, and futuristic to embellished scripts and decorative innovations.

But a word of caution on non-system fonts – custom fonts can be a convincing and attractive component of your presentation design. Still, if misused, they can also be its destruction.

A custom font will only appear in your presentation if played on a device by installing the fonts first. PowerPoint will replace your beautiful and carefully planned custom font with one system default on any other device. This can have destructive outcomes for your presentation design.

If you present your presentation exclusively from the same device, you shouldn’t have a puzzle. Still, suppose many devices or operating systems are available or intend to share your presentation with others to ensure your fonts survive the jump. In that case, it is safer to stay in the system’s default fonts. So, you can be confident now. Your carefully crafted designs will remain as you conceived them, and you can focus on delivering the very best professional PowerPoint presentation.

See also: How to Embed Fonts in PowerPoint into Various Platforms

3 tools to help you choose better presentation fonts.

We’ve noted the three helpful tools mention in the video here to help you choose more effective typefaces for your next professional PowerPoint presentation.

Then, we’ve used ‘Fonts in Use many times; it is a handy tool for selecting fonts for any presentation design project.

Fonts in the Wild

Fonts in use.

Lastly, we’ve done the game with the 20 best fonts for professional PowerPoint. That every single person who has ever designed an Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint™ presentation should have it in their arsenal. Please go out and enjoy them.

See also: Font Pairing Tips and Tricks for Dummies

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12 Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations (2024)

What are the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations? That’s a question we want to answer in this post.

We list a dozen fonts suitable for presentations. We included different font styles to account for the different presentation styles you can create with Microsoft PowerPoint.

Some fonts are included in the application itself. Others are from marketplaces like Creative Market and Envato Elements.

Envato Elements is a subscription service that gives you access to an unlimited number of downloads of over 80,000 design elements for $16.50/month.

You can get started with a 7-day free trial. We wrote a review on Envato Elements if you’d like to learn more about it.

Let’s get into our list for now.

The Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

01. visby cf.

Visby CF is a versatile sans-serif font fit for any PowerPoint presentation.

It’s easy on the eyes when used in lowercase format or lighter font styles.

When you use all uppercase or bold letters, your text becomes more audacious, lending itself to a more noticeable appeal.

This versatility makes this a suitable primary font for any presentation. Use it for headings and paragraph text alike.

The font comes packaged in an OTF file.

Tahoma is a sans-serif font. It was designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft in 1994, after which it was included in the original edition of Windows 95.

It’s been a staple of Microsoft applications like PowerPoint ever since.

The font contains two Windows TrueType fonts in regular and bold weights.

It’s a versatile font perfect for headings and paragraph text as well as personal and professional projects.

03. Caridora

Caridora is a rounded, semi-condensed sans-serif font.

It’s an okay font for text, but it’d truly shine as a heading font, especially for casual or non-corporate presentations.

It comes with two styles in TTF and OTF file formats, meaning four files in total.

04. Palatino Linotype

Palatino Linotype is a modern take on a font by the same name, Palatino. Both the original and digital typefaces were designed by Hermann Zapf.

Hermann designed the original in 1950, after which it became one of the most popular fonts used around the world.

It’s a serif font and a safe option for headings and secondary text in professional presentations.

05. Bergen Sans

Bergen Sans is a big and bold sans-serif font. It’s one of the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations, especially for larger headings meant to grab your viewer’s attention.

This particular font comes packaged as a font family that consists of 6 individual fonts.

Because of this, you can easily use one font for headings and a lighter font from this family for text.

The fonts come in OTF format

Frunch is a bold script font with a vintage flair.

It’d make a great heading font, especially for those in-between slides that only have a simple heading and an accompanying graphic.

The font comes in OTF and TTF file formats and includes 389 glyphs.

07. Addington CF

Addington CF is one of the most elegant serif fonts for PowerPoint presentations.

It’s not too unlike Palatino Linotype, though this font does feature a more vibrant style.

It comes in OTF format and includes 6 font weights plus roman and italic font sets.

Price: Free with Envato Elements.

08. Fonseca

Fonseca is an art deco sans-serif font with a modern twist.

This makes it a suitable choice for headings and subheadings, especially for artistic presentations.

The font is packaged in OTF format with several font styles included. It has 345 glyphs.

09. RNS Camelia

RNS Camelia is a slab serif font. That makes it an incredibly suitable choice for headings right off the bat.

However, it’s also a great text font when used in a lighter font weight.

The font comes in OTF format with 14 styles included.

10. Verdana

Verdana is a classic Microsoft Windows font designed by Mattew Carter. This one, in particular, was one of the first fonts designed with on-screen displays in mind.

It’s a sans-serif font, but a rather plain one.

This makes it most suitable as a text font for professional, and especially corporate, presentations.

Price: Included with PowerPoint.

11. RNS Sanz

RNS Sanz is one of the best sans-serif fonts for PowerPoint presentations.

It’s multipurpose as you can use it as both a heading and text font for PowerPoint presentations.

The font comes in multiple styles and is packaged in OTF and TTF file formats.

Corbel is a rounded sans-serif font that first appeared in Microsoft applications with the release of Windows Vista.

It’s a simple font, but it’s versatile enough to be used as a heading font in professional presentations and a text font in all others.

How to Use Custom Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

Microsoft PowerPoint Online does not allow you to use custom fonts. If you only have access to this version of PowerPoint, you’ll need to stick to the default fonts it comes with.

Based on our list, this means sticking to fonts that say “included with PowerPoint” in the Price section of each list item.

For the desktop version of PowerPoint , follow these steps to upload a custom font into the application:

• Download a copy of the font you want to add to PowerPoint.
• Custom fonts need to be in TTF (TrueType Font) or OTF (OpenType Font) file formats in order to use them in PowerPoint. If your font came in a ZIP folder, unzip the folder to extract the correct file format.
• Double click this file. This opens a window that contains a preview of the font you downloaded.
• Click the Install button in the window. It’s located toward the top.
• If your font came with additional styles (bold, italic, extra bold, etc.), you may see additional TTF and OTF files, one for each additional style. Go through the same process of double clicking and installing each one if you want to use them in PowerPoint.
• Restart your computer (or PowerPoint, at the very least).

That’s it! The font should now be available for use in PowerPoint.

The process is similar on a Mac.

After Step 2, open Font Book on your Mac. Then, drag and drop any files you want to use in PowerPoint from its original folder over to Font Book.

Embedding Fonts in PowerPoint Presentations

If you want to ensure your PowerPoint presentation features all of the custom fonts you used (instead of the app’s default ones), you need to embed them into your final presentation file.

Otherwise, custom fonts will only appear when you show the presentation on a computer that has the font installed.

Here are the steps for embedding fonts on a PC:

• Click File, then Options.
• Open the Save tab.
• Look for the “Preserve fidelity when sharing this document” setting. It’s located at the bottom.
• Make sure the “Embed fonts in the file” option is selected, then click OK.
• Save/export your presentation as usual.

Follow these steps to embed fonts on a Mac:

• Select Preferences.
• Look for the Output and Sharing section, then click Save.
• Look for the “Font Embedding” setting.
• Make sure the “Embed fonts in the file” option is selected.

How to Choose the Best Fonts for PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint presentations are akin to signs, posters and even billboards you see as you drive along the highway.

They’re filled with information but are often paired with visuals designed to grab your attention and complement the words they’re attributed to.

However, a good sign or billboard can grab your attention with either. Each slide in your presentation should do the same.

Yes, the visuals in your presentation do a lot, but don’t discredit the power typography can play when it comes to conveying a message or providing facts.

So, instead of choosing any old font to add to your PowerPoint, choose the best fonts for your presentation instead.

It’s best to choose no more than two fonts that complement each other: one for headings and a second for text.

Your heading font should captivate your viewers at a moment’s glance. It should also look good in larger font sizes.

Visby CF, Tahoma, Caridora, Frunch, Addington, and RNS Camelia are all great options for headings.

They each have different styles, though, so make sure you choose one that complements your presentation’s content as well.

For example, Addington is a bit of a fancier, more elegant font. It likely wouldn’t be suitable for a presentation on skateboarding.

It’s best to choose a simpler font for text.

This is because text in PowerPoint presentations is used to convey more information (and words) than headings.

Stick with sans-serif fonts for text since they’re easier to read.

Tahoma, Palatino Lintoype, Bergen Sans, Fonseca, and RNS Sanz are good choices.

Be sure to grab an Envato Elements subscription if you want more choices. They also have thousands of PowerPoint templates, all of which are free with your subscription.

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Choosing the Right Font For Your PowerPoint Presentation

Whether it’s for a professional conference or middle school book report, it’s important to know the best font to use for your PowerPoint presentation . Believe it or not, fonts are a big part of the overall design of your presentation —and they can make a world of difference! Some convey a lighthearted message, while others can show authority, and so on.

In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at:

• The different styles of fonts
• The 5 most popular fonts
• How to embed fonts, and more.

What are the different styles of fonts? Before we get too deep into each font and what looks best, let’s examine font styles and how they’re classified.

• Sans-serif fonts. Most serif fonts are easy to identify because of the tiny flags or projections on the ends of the characters. Serifs make distinguishing a lowercase L from a capital I in print easy.
• Serif fonts. Sans-serif fonts are commonly used in digital media because serifs can make letters difficult to see if an image or screen is low-resolution.
• Script fonts. Script fonts are also known as handwritten fonts because of the looping letters that make them look like cursive or calligraphy. Most people find it difficult to read more than a few sentences in a script font, so they’re best limited to a few words or a single phrase.
• Monospaced fonts. Even when writing by hand, you’ll notice that not all letters take up the same amount of space. Monospaced fonts buck this trend by allotting the same amount of space laterally for all letters, similar to a typewriter.
• Display fonts. Display fonts can also be known as fantasy or decorative fonts. These aren’t typically used for anything besides signage, banners, logos, or other text that’s isolated. Using display fonts for multiple sentences or a full paragraph isn’t a good practice because they can be hard to read or off-putting after a while.

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What are the 5 most popular fonts in presentations and why? A common theme you’ll notice when looking at the best fonts for PowerPoint is that they’re traditionally sans-serif fonts. Why? Well, this style is much easier to read from a distance and won’t feel cramped if letters are bolded. Additionally, the minimalistic style of sans-serif fonts isn’t distracting from the material or the speaker. Let’s look at five fonts that fit the best practices for a winning presentation .

Note: You’ll notice a serif font on this list, but we’ll address it when we get there.

• Roboto. Roboto is a sans-serif font that’s relatively basic, with sharp edges and rounded loops, counters, and bowls (the rounded parts of letters) without going overly bold or too thin. You can be safe using Roboto for just about any presentation.
• Verdana. Despite the font size you choose, not all fonts display the same. Verdana is a larger sans-serif font that can make it easier to display information without taking your font up an extra size.
• Helvetica. A point of differentiation between Helvetica and other sans-serif fonts is the weight toward the top of the letters. The top of every lowercase letter and the midpoint of every capital letter go to a thick midline’s upper edge. For instance, the top of every lowercase letter reaches the same horizontal point as the top of the crossbar on an H. This unique feature makes the Helvetica type look larger and bolder than it really is, which makes it great for headings and titles.
• Tahoma. Tahoma is different from the previous sans-serif fonts in that it is thinner than the others. While Tahoma might not have the same impact for a heading or title as Helvetica, it’s perfect for body text and fitting into smaller spaces without crowding.
• Palatino Linotype. Serif fonts have long been considered a no-no with digital publications, but with the advent of high-resolution computer monitors, tablets, smartphones, and TVs, they’re fine. What’s more, the serifs on Palatino Linotype aren’t incredibly prominent, so they make for a subtle nod to old-style fonts without over-embellishing.

How do you embed fonts in PowerPoint ? If you’re sharing your presentation with a friend, classmate, or colleague, you could be at risk of the fonts you used transferring properly to their device. For example, if you have a font you love using and installed it onto your computer, they might not have the same font. So, if you send your presentation to them, there could be formatting errors as their device defaults to a different font. Keep this from happening by embedding your font in PowerPoint using these easy steps:

• Click the “File” tab.
• Move down to the lower-lefthand corner of the window and click “Options.”
• Click “Save” on the left side of the screen.
• Scroll down to the section titled “Preserve fidelity when sharing this presentation:”
• Click the box next to “Embed fonts in the file.”
• If you or someone else will be using the presentation on a different device, then select the first option, “Embed only the characters used in the presentation (best for reducing file size).” If you or someone else will be editing the presentation on a different device, then select the second option, “Embed all characters (best for editing by other people).”
• Click “OK.”

There you have it! Choosing the best font for PowerPoint doesn’t have to be difficult. The most important part is making sure that the font is easy to read, and sans-serif fonts are usually a good way to go. By the way, it’s always a good idea to get a second set of eyes on your presentation before your big speech—and be sure to practice it a few times to iron out the kinks !

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10 Best fonts to use in your next PowerPoint presentation

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The design choices we make in our presentations – the colours, the icons, the photography and illustrations – all form a kind of shorthand through which our audiences recognise our brand and get a feel for the message we’re aiming to communicate. The same goes for the fonts we use. Fonts have as big an impact on design style as the visuals. Beautiful photography and well-designed icons can all be undermined by a poorly-chosen typeface. You need to use a font that aligns with the rest of your design style, and with the personality you’re trying to convey. You need a font with the right ‘voice.’

But how do we pick one? Before we get into our recommendations for 10 of the best presentation fonts, let’s run through some of the questions you can ask to help you decide.

Is it a Windows-standard font?

Before we get started this is probably the most important question to ask is if your font should be Windows-standard.

Free download: If you’re not sure what is Windows-standard and what isn’t, then  download this list of Windows-standard fonts for your reference.

We’ll have a look at custom fonts later in this article, but one last question to ask is if the font you intend to use is Windows-standard. Why does this matter? Well, if you make a beautiful presentation using a custom font and then send it to your colleague who doesn’t have the font installed, their version of the presentation will be a huge mess of mis-sized default fonts that isn’t really fit for purpose.

So, if you’re going to be using your presentation on multiple machines, you need something that will work on all of them – you need a Windows-standard font.

And, in case you were wondering, the ten we recommend here are all on that list.

Are you choosing a font for headings or body text?

The first thing to consider is where your text will be used – does it need to be easily readable in longer paragraphs and smaller sizes? Or can you afford to go bigger? Are you looking for a larger, more impactful slide title?

Whether your font is for heading or body text will help inform your answer to the next question…

Serif or sans serif?

Serif fonts have little ticks or ‘wings’ at the end of their lines, and are usually associated with serious, business-like, intellectual content, whereas sans serif fonts – like this one – have no marks on the ends of their lines, and are usually seen as modern, sleek and clean.

General wisdom is that serif fonts are better for print and for body text, as the serifs lead the eye from one character to the next like joined handwriting. Alternatively, sans serif fonts are better for titles and text displayed on a screen. But these are not hard and fast rules! A popular idea is to choose one of each, perhaps titles will be sans serif and body text will be serif, but it’s up to you – choose what feels right for your brand. Do you want to appeal to tradition, to intellectual weight with a serif font, or do you want your text to feel modern, to speak of technology and progress with a sans serif choice? Which leads to the final consideration…

How much familiarity do you want?

Many of the most popular typefaces already have well established voices. Everyone knows Times New Roman is serious, respectable, reliable. Everyone knows Arial is clear, no-nonsense, professional. If you want your audience to feel the familiarity of these tried and tested fonts, easily done! Or do you want to escape the familiar, be a little bit unique and memorable with a font your audience hasn’t already seen that day?

Once you have the answers to these questions, and have decided on the ‘voice’ you want to convey, you are finally ready to start searching for your font! Read on for our recommendations of 10 of the best fonts you can use for your next presentation.

10 best presentation fonts

1. garamond.

‘Garamond’ actually refers to a style of font, rather than one font in particular. Some examples you may have heard of include Adobe Garamond, Monotype Garamond and Garamond ITC. All of these fonts are slightly different, but all have their origins in the work of Claude Garamond, who designed the original punch cuts in the 1500s, making Garamond fonts some of the oldest around.

Prior to Claude Garamond’s work, fonts were designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes. Garamond’s typefaces however (there are 34 attributed to him), were designed in the Roman style, with the letters’ ascenders vertical and the crossbar of the letter ‘e’ horizontal, instead of slanted as in earlier calligraphic fonts. The letters were designed this way to increase legibility in print, which is what makes Garamond fonts such a great choice for body text. Such a great choice in fact, that the entire Harry Potter series is printed in Adobe Garamond. Outside of print, Garamond fonts have been used in the logos of numerous brands, including Rolex and Abercrombie and Fitch, and giants Google and Apple.

With their rich history and elegant readability, you can be confident that a Garamond font will bring a timeless sophistication to your slides, while keeping your text legible.

2. Palatino

Palatino was designed by Hermann Zapf in 1949. Based on the type styles of the Italian Renaissance, Palatino draws influence from calligraphy, and is in fact named after master calligrapher Giambattista Palatino – a contemporary of Claude Garamond. Zapf intended Palatino for use in headings, advertisements and printing. More specifically, it was designed to remain legible when printed on low quality paper, printed at small size or viewed at a distance.

Palatino Linotype is the version of the font included with Microsoft products, and has been altered slightly from the original for optimum display on screens. Book Antiqua, also a Microsoft default font, is very similar, almost impossible to tell from Palatino Linotype.

Both of these fonts are good choices for body text – a little unusual, they will set your slides apart in a sea of Arial and Times New Roman, while with their airy counters and smooth, calligraphic lines, maintaining elegance and readability.

Verdana was designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft in 1996, deliberately crafted for use on computer screens. The letters are widely spaced, with wide counters and tall lowercase letters, making this font extremely readable, especially when displayed at small sizes. Verdana is also nearly ubiquitous, it has been included with all versions of Windows and Office since its creation. One survey estimates it is available on 99.7% of Windows computers, and 98.05% of Macs. On the one hand, this makes it a very safe bet – you are almost guaranteed your presentation will appear as you intended on all devices, but on the other hand, you may not stand out from the crowd as much as you may like!

You can’t argue with its legibility though. Verdana is an excellent font to use for small text, for example, to keep your footnotes, references and disclaimers readable. Or, for a safer choice, Verdana’s unobtrusive, effortlessly legible characters will keep your audience’s attention on what you have said, not the font you’ve used to say it.

If you’ve used a Windows computer, used Skype, played on an Xbox 360 or just seen the Microsoft logo, you have seen a font from the Segoe family. Microsoft uses Segoe fonts for its logos and marketing materials, and Segoe UI has been the default operating system font since Windows Vista. This is all down to its beautiful simplicity, and on-screen legibility. Similarly to Verdana, Segoe fonts look perfect on screens and at small sizes, and are warm and inviting while maintaining the airy, aspirational feel of technology and progress. Unlike Verdana though – which has wide spaces and heavier letters – Segoe fonts are also a great choice for titles and headers.

Another fun bonus from the Segoe font family is the expansive set of symbols and icons it offers. From the insert tab in PowerPoint, click symbol, and change the symbol font to either Segoe UI Symbol, or Segoe UI Emoji, and marvel at the reams and reams of symbols to choose from. There are shapes, arrows, musical notes, mathematical notation, scientific notation, there are animals, buildings, food, Mahjong tiles, Fraktur letters, I Ching hexagrams… Likely any symbol you could possibly want is in there!

So for easy to read body text, light, elegant headers, or a quick and easy way to bring just about any icon you can think of into your presentation, the Segoe font family is a perfect choice.

5. Franklin Gothic

What is it that makes a font ‘gothic?’ There’s certainly nothing about Franklin Gothic that speaks of bats in belfries or doomed lovers wandering the Yorkshire moors! Well, confusingly, when describing fonts ‘Gothic’ can mean completely opposite things – it is sometimes used to refer to a Medieval-style, blackletter font, or conversely, it can be used as a synonym for the clean, geometric, sans serif fonts that began their rise to prominence in the early 19 th century. And that’s certainly the category Franklin Gothic fits into.

Designed by Morris Fuller for the American Type Founders in 1902 and named after the American printer and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Gothic is a classic American font that has been described as ‘square-jawed and strong-armed, yet soft-spoken.’ With its wide range of weights and widths, and interesting design details (take a look at the uppercase Q and lowercase g for some beautiful, unusual curves, and the uppercase A and M for subtly varying line weights), Franklin Gothic will look strong and approachable as your headings, and classy and legible as your body text.

Candara was designed by Gary Munch, and released with Windows Vista in 2008. It is part of a family of six Microsoft fonts, all beginning with the letter C (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Corbel and Constantia), that were all optimised for use with Microsoft’s ClearType rendering system.

The most interesting thing about Candara, and what makes it such a beautiful font to use, is the influence of architecture on its design. If you look closely at the letters’ ascenders, you will notice an entasis at their ends, which means there is a slight convex curve towards the ends of the lines – a feature best known from classical architecture. Columns built by ancient Greek, Roman, Incan, Aztec and Chinese empires were built with this convex curve, a particularly famous example being the columns of the Parthenon in Athens. Historians believe columns were built in this way to give an impression of greater strength, to correct for the visual illusion that very tall, straight columns appear to bow inwards as they rise.

And the architectural influence doesn’t end there, Candara’s diagonal lines – best seen in the capital X, N and A – have been designed with unusual ogee curves. Most often seen in Gothic arches from 13 th and 14 th century Britain, an ogee curve is part convex, part concave, forming a shallow S shape as it rises. Two ogee curves meeting in the middle form an arch that rises to a point – like Candara’s capital A.

These entases and ogee curves are what makes this font pleasingly unusual. At first glance, it is a standard, easy-to-read sans serif that looks crisp and clear on screen, but on closer inspection, Candara has some interesting design details that set it apart. Candara is perhaps not the most serious looking font, but if you’d like something slightly unusual, but still professional and perfectly legible, consider Candara.

Similarly to Garamond, Bodoni refers not to a single font, but to a family of typefaces inspired by the centuries old work of a master typographer. Giambattista Bodoni was an extremely successful master printer who lived and worked in the Italian city of Parma through the late 18 th and early 19 th century. Along with a French typographer named Firmin Didot, Bodoni was responsible for developing the ‘New Face’ style of lettering, characterised by extreme contrast between thick and razor thin lines.

You will have seen this in action if you have ever glanced at a fashion magazine. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle all print their names in a Bodoni font. In fact, these fonts are so prevalent in fashion graphic design that they have become a shorthand for the elegance and refinement the fashion world idealises.

The sharp lines and smooth curves of these fonts have been compared to the precise geometries of fabric patterns, and their delicate, graceful forms afford them a sophisticated femininity. This delicacy also make these fonts perfect for overlaying photographs. You will notice from the fashion magazine covers how the titles maintain their presence, but don’t overpower the photograph beneath. You can use this to great effect in your own designs; if you need to layer text over photographs, Bodoni fonts could be a stylish and sophisticated answer.

Best used in headings displayed at large sizes where contrasting line weights will have maximum impact, Bodoni fonts will instantly instil your design with an effortless, timeless elegance. Bodoni himself wrote that the beauty of type lies in “conformity without ambiguity, variety without dissonance, and equality and symmetry without confusion.” Bodoni fonts have all those things in abundance, and are some of the most beautiful fonts you can choose to use.

If Bodoni fonts are just that bit too extreme, try Bell MT instead. They have similar roots – both Bodoni and Bell fonts were influenced by the work of French typographer Fermin Didot, and have the same ‘New Face’ style contrast between thick and thin lines, just to a lesser extent with Bell fonts.

Designed in 1788 by the punch cutter Richard Austin, commissioned by the publisher John Bell, Bell fonts share similarities with Didot style fonts, but also with softer, rounder Roman fonts of the time such as Baskerville. The influence of flowing, cursive style fonts such as Baskerville can be seen in letters such as the uppercase Q and K, and the italic Y and z , which all have some beautiful, unusual curves. In fact, Bell MT is particularly attractive in italic, almost script-like while maintaining legibility. This makes it an excellent choice for sub-headings, as a softer counterpart to a sans serif heading. Or use it for quotes and testimonials, set in a beautiful Bell italic they will be inviting and authentic, as well as clear and readable.

Coming from an indigenous Salishan language, Tahoma is one of the original Native American names for Mount Rainier in the US state of Washington.

Tahoma the font however was designed by the British typographer Matthew Carter working for Microsoft, and was released with Windows 95. It is a very close cousin of Verdana, but though similar, Tahoma is a little narrower and more tightly spaced than Verdana, giving it a more slender, slightly more formal feel. It is another example of a font that was designed specifically for screen use, meaning it will look good at a wide range of sizes, and on a wide range of screens, perfect if you are making a presentation that will need to display properly on multiple devices.

In fact, perfect clarity is what sets Tahoma apart from some similar sans serif fonts. The image below shows the characters uppercase I (eye), lowercase l (ell) and number 1 (one) written in four popular sans serif fonts (from left to right) Century Gothic, Calibri, Gill Sans and Tahoma. Notice how in every font but Tahoma, at least two characters are indistinguishable. Gill Sans, for example, is a disaster here. It’s unlikely you’ll ever need to write these three characters in quick succession, but for scientific, technical or mathematical content, clear distinction between these characters can be very important – and Tahoma gives you that.

So with its easy to read, screen friendly design and readily distinguishable characters, Tahoma is an ideal choice for the slightly more formal, but still approachable, scientific or technical presentation.

Designed by Jeremy Tankard and released in 2005, like Candara Corbel was also designed to work well with Microsoft’s ClearType rendering system, meaning it is specifically designed to work well on screens. Tankard described his aim when designing Corbel as ‘to give an uncluttered and clean appearance on screen,’ and describes the font as ‘legible, clear, and functional at small sizes.’ All of these things are important boxes to tick when you’re looking for a presentation font!

Corbel is a little more serious than Candara, again in Tankard’s words: ‘functional but not bland,’ designed to be ‘less cuddly, more assertive.’ The dots above the i’s and j’s for example are square, not rounded. The tail of the uppercase Q is straight and horizontal, not a whimsical curve. This makes Corbel a good choice for more serious or technical content, it is legible and without excessive embellishment, yet not characterless or overused.

One of the most interesting design details with Corbel is the fact that with this font, numbers are lowercase. What does this mean? Take a look at the image below, where you can see a comparison of how the numbers 0-9 appear in Corbel with how they appear in another popular sans serif font, Segoe UI. Notice how the Corbel numbers don’t line up exactly? This is know as lowercase or old-style numerals.

The purpose of this is to improve how numbers look when they form part of body text – they are a more natural fit with lowercase lettering. Few fonts have this option (for a serif option offering lowercase numbers, consider Georgia, also a Windows standard font), meaning Corbel can make a for a very unique choice. It will be both legible and readable, and its unusual numbers will add a unique and pleasing design touch to your slides.

What about custom fonts?

Sometimes what we want is not the familiar, the comforting, the Arial and the Times New Roman, sometimes we just want something different . This is your opportunity to step into the almost infinite world of custom fonts. Here you can find fonts to fit almost any imaginable need. From timeless and elegant and crisp and futuristic, to ornate scripts and decorative novelties, there will be a custom font for you.

But a word of warning on non-system fonts – custom fonts can be a powerful, attractive component of your presentation design, but if used incorrectly, they can also be its undoing.

A custom font will only appear in your presentation if it is played on a device with that font installed . On any other device, PowerPoint will replace your beautiful, carefully planned custom font with one of the system defaults, and this can have disastrous consequences for your design.

If your presentation is going to be built and presented exclusively from the same device you shouldn’t have a problem, but if multiple devices or operating systems are involved, or if you intend to share your presentation for others to use, to ensure your fonts survive the jump it is safer to stay in the realms of the system default fonts. There you can be confident your carefully crafted designs will stay exactly as you envisaged them, and you can concentrate on delivering the very best presentation.

You can find a useful PDF here detailing which fonts are available on all platforms for maximum compatibility.

Whatever font you do choose for your next PowerPoint presentation, ask yourself two questions:

• Does this font have the right ‘voice’ for your brand?
• Is it easy to read?

If the answer to both of the above is yes, then you are on to a winner. You know best what fits with your brand, and if a font captures your unique voice, and makes your slides easy for your audience to read, you are one step closer to that perfect presentation.

Further reading

For more advice on choosing the best font for your next presentation, and then making the very best of it in your design, take a look at our other articles:

• 10 typography tips and tricks to get you started
• Advanced typography in PowerPoint
• https://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/futura-font-on-the-moon-christopher-burke-book
• https://fontmeme.com/famous-logos-created-with-futura-font/
• https://cei.org/blog/adobe-garamond-harry-potter-books-not-character-font
• https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/franklin-gothic/
• https://study.com/academy/lesson/entasis-definition-architecture-architects.html
• https://study.com/academy/lesson/ogee-arches-definition-construction.html
• http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/through-thick-and-think-fashion-and-type
• https://www.quora.com/Why-don%E2%80%99t-lowercase-and-uppercase-numbers-exist
• https://typographica.org/on-typography/microsofts-cleartype-font-collection-a-fair-and-balanced-review/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/clear-type-font-collection
• In addition – Wikipedia pages for each font in the list were used

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what is the font you used in the text above

We use GT Walsheim as our corporate font (web, print)(which one has to pay for), but because it’s not a Windows standard font we actually use Segoe UI in our presentations.

What is a Bold font we can use?

What is the name of font you use on this website for writing information ..I want this font

It’s GT Walsheim .

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See above in the comments… GT Walsheim

Loved it. Thanks a lot Bright Carbon team

What font did you write this article in?

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25 Best Fonts for Powerpoint to Elevate Your Presentations

• January 22, 2024

• Written by a professional

Summary: In today’s article, I selected 25 amazing Microsoft fonts that are simply perfect for Powerpoint presentations. My top three favorites are:

• Impact : It helps emphasize key points by its bold and attention-grabbing nature.
• Goudy Old Style : It offers a balanced and readable choice for conveying information.
• Century Gothic : Its clean style is versatile, it does help maintain a professional look.

When it comes to selecting fonts for PowerPoint presentations, I understand the importance of making the right choice to enhance the overall look and effectiveness of slides. Choosing the right font is crucial & this article highlights the best fonts that combine readability with professional style, ensuring your slides make a lasting impression. Whether you're presenting in a corporate meeting or a creative showcase, these fonts will enhance your message and keep your audience engaged. Let's explore my top picks & move your next presentation on new level.

TOP 25 best fonts for PowerPoint

• Goudy Old Style
• Century Gothic
• Baskerville Old Face
• The Serif Hand
• Cooper Black
• Gill Sans Nova
• Alasassy Caps
• Avenir Next LT Pro
• Century Schoolbook
• Georgia Pro
• Verdana Pro
• Vivaldi Italic
• Chamberi Super Display Regular
• Mystical Woods Smooth Script
• Tisa Offc Serif Pro
• Britannic Bold
• Baguet Script Regular
• Modern No. 20
• Modern Love Caps

• About Impact: Impact, with its bold and condensed style, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations needing striking headlines or attention-grabbing titles.

2. Goudy Old Style

• About Goudy Old Style: Goudy Old Style offers an elegant, traditional touch to PowerPoint presentations, perfect for formal or historical topics.

3. Century Gothic

• About Century Gothic: Century Gothic, known for its clean, sans-serif design, is suitable for modern and minimalistic PowerPoint presentations requiring readability.

4. Baskerville Old Face

• About Baskerville Old Face: Baskerville Old Face adds a touch of classic sophistication to PowerPoint presentations, ideal for literature or history-themed slides.

5. The Serif Hand

• About The Serif Hand: The Serif Hand, with its handwritten appearance, is great for informal or creative PowerPoint presentations that aim for a personal touch.

6. Cooper Black

• About Cooper Black: Cooper Black, with its rounded, bold letters, is excellent for casual or playful PowerPoint presentations needing a friendly tone.

7. Gill Sans Nova

• About Gill Sans Nova: Gill Sans Nova, a refined sans-serif font, is versatile for both professional and casual PowerPoint presentations, offering clarity and elegance.

8. Alasassy Caps

• About Alasassy Caps: Alasassy Caps, characterized by its stylish uppercase letters, is suitable for decorative titles in modern or fashion-themed PowerPoint presentations.

9. Avenir Next LT Pro

• About Avenir Next LT Pro: Avenir Next LT Pro, known for its sleek and professional look, is ideal for business or technology-themed PowerPoint presentations.

10. Century Schoolbook

• About Century Schoolbook: Century Schoolbook, with its legible and formal style, is perfect for educational or academic PowerPoint presentations.

11. Georgia Pro

• About Georgia Pro: Georgia Pro, a serif font, offers excellent readability and a professional look, suitable for varied PowerPoint presentation topics.

12. Verdana Pro

• About Verdana Pro: Verdana Pro, designed for high readability on screens, is a great choice for text-heavy PowerPoint presentations.

13. Vivaldi Italic

• About Vivaldi Italic: Vivaldi Italic, with its elegant and flowing script, is ideal for artistic or decorative titles in PowerPoint presentations.

14. Chamberi Super Display Regular

• About Chamberi Super Display Regular: This font, known for its sophisticated and impactful style, is perfect for headlines in modern PowerPoint presentations.

15. Garamond

• About Garamond: Garamond, a classic and timeless serif font, is suitable for formal and sophisticated PowerPoint presentations.

16. Broadway

• About Broadway: Broadway, with its art deco style, is excellent for PowerPoint presentations that require a touch of retro glamour.

17. Tw Cen MT

• About Tw Cen MT: Tw Cen MT offers a sleek, geometric appearance, making it suitable for contemporary and business-oriented PowerPoint presentations.

18. Gungsuh

• About Gungsuh : Gungsuh, a Korean font, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations that require an Asian aesthetic or for presentations in Korean language.

19. Mystical Woods Smooth Script

• About Mystical Woods Smooth Script: With its flowing and decorative style, this font is perfect for creative or fantasy-themed PowerPoint presentations.

20. Tisa Offc Serif Pro

• About Tisa Offc Serif Pro: Tisa Offc Serif Pro, known for its readability and elegance, is a versatile choice for a range of PowerPoint presentation themes.

21. Britannic Bold

• About Britannic Bold: Britannic Bold, with its strong and assertive style, is great for headlines in business or educational PowerPoint presentations.

22. Rockwell

• About Rockwell: Rockwell, known for its slab-serif and sturdy appearance, is ideal for PowerPoint presentations requiring a robust and solid feel.

23. Baguet Script Regular

• About Baguet Script Regular: Baguet Script Regular, with its handwritten, cursive style, adds a personal and artistic touch to PowerPoint presentations.

24. Modern No. 20

• About Modern No. 20: Modern No. 20, featuring a sleek and elegant design, is suitable for formal and contemporary PowerPoint presentations.

25. Modern Love Caps

• About: Modern Love Caps, with its playful and bold hand-drawn lettering, is best suited for engaging PowerPoint presentations that aim to convey creativity and uniqueness.

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How to choose the best fonts for PowerPoint?

• Readability : Prioritize fonts that are easy to read, even from a distance. Steer clear of overly ornate or decorative fonts that may hinder comprehension.
• Consistency : Maintain font consistency throughout your presentation. Stick to two or three fonts at most to create a cohesive and professional look.
• Audience and Purpose : Consider your audience and the purpose of your presentation. Formal presentations may call for classic, serif fonts, while creative or informal presentations can benefit from more playful, sans-serif fonts.
• Contrast : Use font contrast to your advantage. Pair a bold font for headers with a more straightforward font for body text to create visual interest and hierarchy.
• Testing : Experiment with different fonts in your PowerPoint design. Test them on sample slides to see how they look in context, both in terms of style and legibility, before finalizing your choices.

What are PowerPoint fonts usually used for?

• Readability and Clarity : Fonts in PowerPoint are primarily used to ensure the text on slides is clear and easily readable, facilitating the communication of information and ideas.
• Visual Hierarchy : Fonts help establish a visual hierarchy in presentations. Different font styles, sizes, and weights distinguish headings, subheadings, and body text, guiding the audience's attention.
• Tone and Style : Fonts play a vital role in conveying the tone and style of the presentation. They can communicate formality, creativity, professionalism, or informality, depending on your choice.
• Branding and Consistency : Fonts contribute to maintaining branding consistency in presentations. Organizations often have specific fonts associated with their identity, which can be used to reinforce brand recognition.
• Visual Appeal and Impact : Fonts can be creatively employed to add visual interest and personality to slides. Unique or stylized fonts can be used for emphasis, thematic alignment, or to engage the audience's visual senses.

In conclusion, this exploration of the 25 best fonts for PowerPoint reveals a versatile range of typographic choices to enhance your presentations. Among them, three fonts shine – Impact , ideal for bold headings and capturing attention; Goudy Old Style , a timeless choice for balanced and readable body text; and Century Gothic , offering a clean and modern design to maintain professionalism. Like a painter's palette, these fonts empower you to craft impactful messages that resonate with your audience, whether you're delivering a corporate report or a captivating sales pitch, ensuring your words leave a lasting impression with a touch of sophistication and contemporary flair.

Hana Terber

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As a designer in LGR Presentation, I have to work every day in PowerPoint presentation project s from different brands. So I know what types of questions are you dealing with.

“What color palette will I use?” 

“What kind of style of typography?”

“Which fonts? What size?”

So many things to think about!

Let me show you how to choose the best fonts for PowerPoint and, also, give you some extra tips! 

Let’s dive into it…

How to choose the best fonts for PowerPoint?

First of all, you are not going to find here the PERFECT font for you. There is no perfect font whatsoever. It always depends on you and your situation.

For instance, Apple uses all the time the font Myriad Pro Semibold.

Because it is the best font for PowerPoint presentations?

They use it everywhere. It has become their font.

Choosing the font style prescribed by your company build your brand.  If you use the font style for everything, people will identify this font style with your brand.

Like Apple!

Let me show you now the 10 best fonts for PowerPoint.

Roboto is an effective font, without personality. Use it if you want to create a simple presentation.

For an elegant and minimalist style, opt for the Avenir font, especially if you have an innovative project.

Use it on larger font sizes and you will see the difference. Lato is a modern, elegant font that stands out from the crowd and shows off your style.

#4 CENTURY GOTHIC

Century Gothic specially designed for modern digital presentations. This font maintains a design from the 20th Century but with a x-height enlarged.

#5 GARAMOND

Garamond is a professional font, it is ideal for “academic” style presentations.

Georgia is a legible, modern font that gives a welcoming look.

#7 MONTSERRAT

A modern style, geometric simplicity in the letters, without a shadow of a doubt. Montserrat is a font that makes an impact!

Ideal to have thick letters in your titles and elegance in your texts. Raleway is a light and varied writing which is very appreciated with the Powerpoint tool.

#9 SEgoe UI

Well-known font used in Microsoft products to improve the user interface. It is ideal for professional PowerPoint presentations.

It has spaced characters that allows for easy reading of content. We advise to use it specially for headers.  

Segoe UI doesn’t have to be confused with Segoe Print or Segoe Script. These two are not recommended fonts for a presentation.

#10 VERDANA

As Segoe, this is a font with spaced characters which make it great to make clear and easy reading presentations. This typography is neat and personalized.

Serif or sans Serif for your PowerPoint fonts?

The font you choose can have a big impact on your Powerpoint presentation.

Serif fonts are perfect if you are going to print your presentation. They are pretty easy to read.

Sans serif fonts are better for digital presentation. They are moderns and elegants. The ones that we recommend to do a PowerPoint presentation that will appear on a screen. 

• Serif (a foot on the bottom edge of the letters, like this one), it will direct the audience’s eyes across the bottom line of the letters. It gives the public a lot of information that they probably not need at all. This will make the slides not easy to read and follow and maybe the audience will just give up.
• Sans serif (without foot), you will have a clean slide with it. The audience may find it hard to follow the line. This may seems to be an inconvenience, but if you manage to put just the necessary text and more visuals, the result will be great. A clean, simple slide.

What about the colors of your PowerPoint fonts?

I can advise you about a specific color or palette. It always depends on you, your company and where are you doing the presentation.

However, we have some guidelines for you to help you choose the best palette for your presentation.

Where your presentation will be displayed?

• Presentation displayed in dark room: use a dark background. You can’t use a light background in a dark room because your audience will feel that they are looking into a spotlight.
• Presentation displayed in well lit room: use a light background.  It is not recommended to use a dark background in a lit room, because the ambient room light will be reflected on the screen and then black will become grey.

Control where the audience focuses their eyes

How can you do this? It is easy.

Avoid putting a warm color next to a cold point.

The area where you want the audience to focus needs to be darker and warmer than the areas that surrounds it.

Use your brand color for your presentation fonts

It is always a good a idea to use the colors of your brand in your presentations.

To get the exact colors from your company’s logo, you can use this tool from Adobe.

At that site you need to upload your logo and the website will indicate you the palette of color that you need to use from that image.

The best fonts for PowerPoint for everybody.

If you are doing a presentation for a big crowd, you need to do it for everybody.

Consider color-blindness!

Learn about palette types and use it in your PowerPoint fonts

Use a complementary palette. 

Don’t mix colors without learning a little bit more about them.

Check our Color Wheel design to help you.

How to add new fonts for PowerPoint.

There are two types of fonts , those of Windows office (to be used in priority) and those that we download.

We usually download them from  Google font .

You only need to find the font you want by entering it in the search box.

  Select the desired style.

And then, click on Download family.

You will find the font in a ZIP file in your downloads, you just have to open and install them.

ATTENTION: You will have to close the PPT software completely and reopen it so that the new fonts appear in the drop-down list.

What fonts will you use for your PowerPoint presentation?

I’d love to hear what do you think about these fonts.

Specifically, I would like to know if…

Do you have a prefered font that you use all the time in your PowerPoint ?

Let me know by leaving a quick comment below!

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Best PowerPoint Fonts To Make Your Presentations StandOut

The foremost purpose of your presentation is to communicate your thinking to your audience effectively. To keep the audience engaged in your presentation, believe it or not, the Presentation font selection also plays a significant role. The fonts create the tone and atmosphere of the presentation. PowerPoint Fonts have the power to enhance or dampen your communication considerably.  Fonts are like non-verbal expressions of written words. You can make your words look bold and confident or shaky just by the choice of your fonts in presentations . You can actually produce deep and powerful impressions using presentation fonts .

In a nutshell, you don’t want your audience to be distracted from the topic just because of the font selection. Right? So what should you be taking care of in font selection while designing your next winning presentation ? Let’s learn more about professional presentation fonts for winning over your audience: 

Points To Avoid While Choosing Presentation Fonts:

Overuse of certain presentation fonts.

Initially created for The Times newspaper in 1929, Times New Roman became the new default font for many MS Office Apps, and it is overused since then. Just like Times New Roman, Arial has been a default font for Windows for many years; this reason is enough to justify why Arial is one of the most boring fonts. We are tired of seeing these presentation fonts almost everywhere. You don’t only have to choose the font that fits your business and the presentation topic, but also need to make sure that you avoid all of the common options. Our attention span is decreasing very fast; we get bored very fast. If your content is not attention-grabbing, you can’t engage your audience. Move away from the defaults; use different cool presentation fonts , there is so much more out there.

Use Of Cool Fancy Fonts

Although it might look fancy to look at cool presentation fonts , they considerably reduce the readability of your content. Handwriting-style fonts such as Mistral and Viner Hand can be fun to use; however,  they can make your slides look unprofessional. Similarly, some best fonts for a presentation such as Comic Sans are more appropriate for content prepared for children rather than for professional presentations . Your audience in the back row relies on the slides to help them understand what you’re talking about, the corporate presentations are why you should avoid tiny presentation fonts like Brush Script or Bradly Hand. Most of us should try to stick to the basics when it comes to font styles. Make sure you keep it simple and formal!

Use Of Obvious & Boring Fonts

Helvetica Neue typeface was proudly used by widely-known companies such as Apple, Nasa, and BMW because it worked for them. The problem is that Helvetica is a thin-weight font, and when shown in smaller point sizes, its curves break up. Kerning is the space between two letters based on their shape. Too little space makes the professional presentation fonts unreadable because the letters are smushed together.  Unfortunately, Helvetica uses kerning to distort words, making the text difficult to read by randomizing the spaces between characters. Using this professional presentation font in your presentation won’t bring any extra value.

Misuse Of Shadow

Many people use shadows on their text to make it stand out. However, when you use shadows, the text looks blurry and dirty. It’s always better to avoid shadow, especially for PowerPoint presentations .  But if you are a fan of text-shadow and still want to use a drop shadow on text, only use it on the header and never in the body. Also, consider using a dark background with white bold text for better visuals.

What are the best fonts for a presentation?

Use Best PowerPoint Fonts – Verdana and Georgia

Designers at Microsoft deliberately crafted Verdana for use on computer screens. This is considered one of the cool presentation fonts . The letters are widely spaced, and lowercase letters are tall, making this font extremely readable. Verdana makes it a very safe bet when you know that your presentation will appear on different devices. It is also not overused making it the best font for a presentation to make the content look appealing and readable To effectively showcase numbers in the PowerPoint presentation , Georgia is a great serif option offering lowercase numbers, which are also a Windows standard font. Therefore this is amongst the best presentation fonts when showcasing numbers.

Make Your Presentation Fonts Readable

Creating your presentation using some cool presentation fonts will make your audience focus on the design rather than the message that you want to deliver. Also, it would reduce the readability of your content. Therefore choose professional fonts that allow your readers to focus on the message .  It would help if you effectively format your text on the slides so that they don’t look too busy. The use of proper line spacing and margins can increase the readability of the content . Effective use of bullet points and indentation can make your slides look neat.

Stick To Grayscale For Fonts In Presentation

Studies have shown that different colors have different impacts on the mind and evoke mixed feelings in many people. It would be best if you keep that in mind while creating a presentation since you want to avoid colors that might negatively impact the message you are delivering. Pro Tip:  It is always safe to use grayscale in your presentation as they look professional.

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