Well, I think the answer is... The best font is whatever font you like the look of, to be honest.

It is such a personal choice how you want your drawings to appear. If you want to project a modern edgy image to clients go for a modern san serif styled font eg Century Gothic. If you want to have a more traditional style, a serif styled font looked better, like Times Roman etc. You could even go for a hand-drawn style if you want!

Personally we use Century Gothic in a variety of sizes depending on function.

Try printing out a list of all the fonts applied to a common sentence so you can see what looks best and what is the most clear to read at a variety of sizes.

And yes, you will have to set each tool to use the correct font at least once. You can then save them as favorites for easy recall if you like.

Happy now?

Hello,

If you are sharing your files across different operating systems,
the lack of a particular font can cause problems.

Using "browser safe fonts" like Arial saves you from a lot of harm.

More info can be found here;
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

Hope this helps.

ICEdevil wrote:
ok...thanx for the reply...

and...settin each tool in particular...now that's a bummer...

Setting the tool default fonts should take you all of 10 minutes. The best way would be to dial in the template file and all the projects you start from now on will have the desired settings. You'll never have to worry about it again.

For projects that are already started... perhaps you could define some favorites after you've adjusted your template. Unfortunately, you'll have to attack these one by one as you work on them.