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42 perfect font pairings for your next project

Font pairings for typographical inspiration.

Balancing the right font pairings can be a tricky task, but when a combination works it creates a visual harmony that can truly elevate your creative project. Some fonts have a natural compatibility while others have a more striking dissonance, so whether you're going for a streamlined design or an edgier combination, there's a font pairing that will suit your creative needs.

To help inspire your next project, we've picked a diverse range of font pairings to suit a variety of styles. We'll start with some tips on how to combine fonts before moving on to a curated selection of the best typographical combinations. You can start by checking out our font vs typeface guide that cuts through the jargon and if you're looking for places to find fonts, take a look at our best free fonts guide.

How to choose font pairings: top tips

01. Check the proportions

Choosing font pairings can be tricky, but a good way to shape your decision is to consider the size of your fonts. If the X height (the size of the 'x' character) is similar in both of your choices, they'll likely complement each other, giving your project an element of cohesion.

02. Use font superfamilies

The guaranteed way to choose great font pairs is to choose fonts from the same typeface family. There are plenty of 'super-family' fonts to choose from, which means when it comes to choosing your font pairings, you already have a cohesive set of fonts that should work well together. A good super-family will have both a Serif and a Sans Serif version of a typeface.

03. Pair contrasting typefaces

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Contrasting fonts can be hard to find as you're effectively searching for two fonts that are different but also complement each other rather than causing conflict. If typefaces are too similar, it's likely that they'll conflict. For example, overly similar serifs or similar sans serifs don't tend to look nice next to each other. Our mind ends up confused – is this a different font or not? Good contrast is often provided by pairing a serif font with a sans-serif font.

It's important to balance personalities in font pairings too. For example, if you have a really unique display face full of personality, you'll need something more neutral to do the hard work and create a balance. You also need to establish a clear hierarchy in your font pairings: what will be the purpose of each one? Which will be for display and which for body text. This applies even if you're not pairing fonts. You can use a single font and adjust the weight, the size or the colour.

05. Pair type sub-categories

'Serif' and 'sans serif' are very broad classifications, and each can be split into several sub-categories. Generally speaking, Old Style serifs such as Bembo, Caslon and Garamond will combine well with Humanist sans serifs like Gill Sans and Lucida Grande.

Transitional serifs have a stronger contrast between thick and thin strokes (examples include Bookman, Mrs. Eaves, Perpetua and Times). These pair with geometric sans serifs like Avant Garde, Avenir, Century Gothic, Eurostile, Futura and Univers.

Finally, modern serifs tend to have a very dramatic contrast between thick and thin for a more pronounced, stylised effect, as well as a larger x-height. This third sub-category includes Bodoni, Didot, New Century Schoolbook and Walbaum. Again, geometric sans serifs marry best with these.

05. Consider the weight

The weight of your font refers to the boldness and thickness of the text. Depending on which fonts you choose, there can be several different weights available. Often you'll want a heavier weight for headlines and titles and a lighter feel for the main body of text. It's important to choose font weights that complement each other but don't be afraid to play around with the styles to create a custom look that suits your project.

The best font pairings: 38 perfect examples

01. academia & franklin gothic sg.

The clean-cut appeal of Academia and Franklin Gothic make them a perfect font pairing for simple stripped-back design projects that prioritise legibility and visual harmony. As a confident and classy serif font, Academia brings a touch of refinement that complements Fraklin Gothic's more contemporary and functional sans serif form.

02. Norwester & Kollektif

An unexpected but stylish font pairing, Norwester and Kollektif are a great way to add a touch of contemporary style to your projects. Norwester is a strong geometric font that commands attention, so it's perfect for headings that need to make a statement. Subdued and clean, Kollektif packs a punch without overpowering the bold look of Nowester, injecting a dose of strength and authority into your design.

03. Aldus & Astoria Sans

Aldus was created as a new form of Old Face typeface. It was named after famous Venetian printer Aldus Manutius and has the artful elegance of Renaissance-style typography. When paired with the more modern Astoria Sans, inspired by the humanist sans-serif Gill, the fonts create a clean and classic look that's perfect for many different projects.

04. Century Gothic & PT Serif

Century Gothic was originally made as a substitute font for Avant Garde. It's based on Monotype 20th Century and has been modified to fit contemporary digital systems, while still maintaining a classic feel. It pairs well with PT Serif, a classic font created by ParaType. This combination is naturally complimentary, giving a timeless effect that doesn't feel outdated or overused.

05. Calvert and Acumin

Named after its creator Margaret Calvert, Calvert is a punchy slab serif from Monotype. It comes in six styles: Calvert Pro and Standard, each with Light, Regular and Bold variants. For an ideal font pairing, try sans-serif Acumin. This typeface comprises a massive 90 different fonts (See our explanation of font vs typeface if you're not sure about the difference between the two). Designed by Robert Slimbach as part of the Adobe Originals initiative, this font requires an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for access.

06. Montserrat and Courier New

Google Font Montserrat was designed specifically for online use, while Courier New is a classic typewriter font (see our guide to the best typewriter fonts for more of those). Considering their very different purposes, you might not think this would make the best font pairing, but actually, they work perfectly together. Montserrat's light, modern sans-serif letterforms offset Courier New's heavier, retro vibe really well.

07. Skolar Latin and Proxima Nova

The type foundry Rosetta describes Skolar as "a typeface for complex typography". To back that up, Skolar boasts a vast character set, and comes in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Devangari and Gujarati scripts. The typeface itself sports low contrast, a relatively large x-height and robust serifs, which allow it to retain legibility even at small sizes. Our perfect font pairing for Skolar is the popular web font Proxima Nova, which was designed by Mark Simonson. This mixed modern proportions with a geometric appearance.

08. Alegreya Sans SC and Source Sans Pro

Designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica, Alegreya is a superfamily that includes sans and serif sister families alongside this small caps version. The family has a slightly calligraphic edge and is designed to be suitable for long blocks of text. However, the small caps variant is most suited to headers. We suggest pairing it with Source Sans Pro, Adobe's first open-source typeface family, designed by Paul D. Hunt.

09. Pacifico and Quicksand

For a delightful font pairing with an unintentionally tropical theme, try Pacifico and Quicksand. Pacifico is a delightfully free and flamboyant brush font that's great for use in headings, while Quicksand is a sans-serif with rounded terminals and some quirky touches, including that distinctive descender on the uppercase 'Q'. Quicksand was actually also designed as a display typeface, but it offers enough clarity to work well at small sizes, too.

10. Julius Sans One and Archive Narrow

If you're looking for a smart, professional look, this is a great font pairing to try. Julius Sans One is an all caps font that only comes in one weight, but, with its fine stroke and broader baseline, it's a top choice for a display font. The more geometric Archivo Narrow is a perfect match and works equally well in print and digital.

11. Playfair Display and Raleway

The display font Playfair draws inspiration from the period in the 18th century when quills were starting to be replaced by pointed steel pens. This, alongside printing developments, led to high-contrast letterforms with delicate hairlines becoming popular. The elegant sans serif Raleway offers a perfect font pairing.

12. Oswald and Lato

Launched in 2011, Oswald is a reworking of the 'Alternate Gothic' sans-serif type style. It makes a great pairing with Lato ('summer' in Polish), which is a warm yet stable sans serif. Both are available in a range of weights and variants, giving this font pairing a lot of versatility.

13. Super Grotesk and Minion Pro

The ever-popular serifed Minion Pro works perfectly as a headline font when coupled with the nimble sans-serif Super Grotesk for body copy. Together, these fonts serve to create an effortless sense of modern elegance.

14. Libre Franklin and Libre Baskerville

These two libre typefaces make a great font pairing if you're looking for a more traditional feel. Both Libre Baskerville and Libre Franklin have been optimised for use on screen. The first is nice and readable, so ideal for use as body text, while the latter is better suited to headlines. With nine weight options, this is another versatile combination.

15. Freight Sans and Freight Text

Working within superfamilies makes it a lot easier to find harmonious font pairings. GarageFonts' Freight is a great example. It's available in a large range of weights and styles, including Sans, Text, Display and Micro versions – giving you a versatile typographic toolkit to work with.

16. Kaufmann and NeutraDemi

If you're after something more unexpected, how about this duo? The flowing stylings of Kaufmann add a touch of handwritten flair to this odd couple, and offset the straight and angular sans-serifed NeutraDemi perfectly. This font pairing might not be the most obvious match, but that doesn't stop them playing off one another beautifully.

17. Brandon Grotesque and Minion Pro

The reliable Minion Pro appears a few times in this list thanks to its versatility. This time, it's playing second fiddle to the bold and attention-grabbing Brandon Grotesque. It's a classic serif and sans-serif font pairing, with both typefaces remaining crisp and easy to scan in any page layout.

18. Josefin Slab and Patrick Hand

When creating Josefin Slab, designer Santiago Orozco was aiming for something between Kabel and Memphis, but with modern details. The final typeface has distinctive, typewriter-style details, and it's great for using in headlines. Combine it with body copy in Patrick Hand for a font pairing packed with character. The latter, based on the designer's own handwriting, has a neat, friendly vibe.

19. Helvetica Neue and Garamond

Combining the ubiquitous Neo-Grotesque sans serif Helvetica Neue for headlines with the classic Old Style serif Garamond for text is a famously harmonious font pairing. Mix up different weights and sizes from these two neutral families to create clear hierarchy in your designs.

20. Caslon and Myriad

Another classic font pairing, this time between an 18th century Old Style serif and a late-20th century Humanist sans serif. Myriad was famously used in Apple 's corporate communication before it switched to San Francisco. It's also used in the Rolls Royce logo.

21. Nova Mono and Lato

Nova Mono is only available in one style, but it's a style that's great for making a statement. Pair it with versatile sans serif Lato to stop things getting too crazy. Lato designer Łukasz Dziedzic wanted something that was nice and clear at small sizes (we'd suggest using it that way in this font pairing), but that revealed some stylised effects when used larger.

22. Fontin and Fontin Sans

Time for another superfamily, this time from Dutch foundry exljbris . Fontin has been designed specifically for use at small sizes. It features loose spacing and a tall x-height. Fontin Sans is the ideal partner.

23. Minion and Poppl-Laudatio

These two typefaces both have lots of personality, but they bond perfectly. An Old Style serif typeface, Minion was designed in 1990 but inspired by late Renaissance-era type. Meanwhile, although it's technically a sans-serif, Poppl-Laudatio's subtle flared details give it a quirky edge.

24. Liberation Serif and Liberation Sans

The Liberation superfamily was intended as an open-source substitute for many commonly used Windows fonts, such as Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. The Serif and Sans versions make a smart font pairing, but there are other variations to play around with, too, including Sans Narrow and Mono.

25. Trade Gothic Bold and Sabon

This pairing is particularly effective when Trade Gothic is used in its Bold weight for headlines, to set off Jan Tschichold's classic Old Style serif face for text. Both typefaces are highly readable, with a tall x-height, and combine well together to give a pleasing effect.

26. Gilroy and Jura

This pair of sans serifs works well to create a trendy, industrial look. Gilroy's geometric style in ExtraBold weight is ideal for headers, while Jura Light ofsets it nicely with its wiry, structured shape. The combination is good for adding a strong, technical feel to creative projects.

27. Orpheus Pro and Twentieth Century

How about looking back at the 1920s with this typeface from designer Sol Hess for Monotype? Twentieth Century has an eye-catching Art Deco vibe (it's subtle here, but the glamour is amped up in the Twentieth Century Std Poster MT variant). For the perfect type pairing, try Orpheus Pro from Canada Type. This typeface was planned as a new version of Walter Tiemann's Orpheus and its italic companion font Euphorion, but ended up as something much more elaborate – if you're using it for display purposes, there are plenty of extensions, alternates, swashes, and ligatures to explore.

28. Playfair Display and Source Sans Pro

Dedicated display typeface Playfair Display boasts high-contrast for some old-fashioned charm. Meanwhile, Source Sans Pro is a modern sans-serif designed specifically for use in user interfaces. Together, they make a perfect pairing of old and new, with the understated Source Sans Pro letting Playfair Display really shine.

29. Scala and Scala Sans

FontFont's Scala superfamily began with a serif version in 1990 and followed that in 92 with a sans serif companion. With small caps, various ligatures and old-style figures, this family offers huge versatility and is widely used in publishing.

30. Bebas Neue and Montserrat Light

Clean, condensed letterforms make Bebas Neue an excellent choice for headlines. It's free to download and open source – so you can edit it to your own particular needs through the GitHub repo if you have the desire and skills to do so. Montserrat offers a nice contrast, especially the Light version.

31. Rockwell Bold and Bembo

Designed in the 1930s, Rockwell is one of the classic slab serifs. It has a big personality and strong attention-grabbing potential when used bold. The much more conservative serif Bembo is neutral but versatile, making for a perfect contrasting font pairing.

32. Myriad Black and Minion

Myriad and Minion crop up in other font pairings in this list, but this combination is definitely worth considering too. The shouty, ultra-bold Black version of the former and the text weight of the latter can lend a clear hierarchy to designs.

33. Souvenir and Futura Bold

Mixing two strong typographic personalities rarely works because they end up fighting for attention. However, this is an exception. Souvenir is softer and more playful than many of its Old Style serif counterparts, while Futura Bold is quirky without being too dominant.

34. Dax Bold and Caslon

One of the most versatile Old Style serifs, Caslon has also appeared elsewhere on this list. Its neutrality plays off against the informal, modern Dax Bold, enabling the latter to deliver its strong personality. Dax Bold is a great choice for a headline, and the understated Caslon won't compete for attention.

35. Roboto and Montserrat

These two simple sans-serif typefaces offer a clean, modern font pairing. Roboto combines geometric forms with friendly, open curves, designed to facilitate a natural reading rhythm. Montserrat – named after designer Julieta Ulanovsky's neighbourhood in Buenos Aires – has various options in its family, giving you plenty to play around with.

36. Antique Olive Bold and Chaparral

Initially designed as an alternative to Helvetica and Univers, Antique Olive has a very tall x-height with short ascenders and descenders. This makes it highly distinctive in display form. Chaparral has a modern feel but is a much more neutral slab serif. The two together work in perfect harmony.

37. Aviano and Aviano Sans

Only available in all-caps varieties, Aviano has sharp, edgy serifs that give it a distinctive personality. Its sans-serif variant is smoother. Combine the two tilting typefaces together to established clear hierarchy in your designs.

38. TheSerif and TheSans

The rather straightforward naming strategy within the LucasFonts’ Thesis typeface superfamily makes the foundry's intentions very clear. These two variants complement each other perfectly, and each comes with its own sub-varieties.

39. Renault Light and Apex-New

This is a perfect font pairing for formal or corporate use. Both Renault and Apex-New have a very similar ratio of x-height to body height for an effortless partnership between contemporary sans serif and authoritative serif.

40. Calluna and Calluna Sans

An exljbris creation, Calluna was born out of an experiment with adding slab serifs to Museo, giving designer Jos Buivenga the idea of 'serifs with direction'. The result is a highly distinctive text face that later spawned a sans-serif companion.

41. Unifrakturcook & Podkova

An unexpected but playful pair, Unifrakturcook and Podkova are a contemporary font pairing that brings a level of edge to your projects. Unifrakturcook is a bold blackletter font based on Peter Wiegel’s font Koch fette deutsche Schrift. As a title font, it brings a punchy authority that when paired with the more understated Podkova, gives your design an ultra-cool modern look.

42. Playfair Display & Alice

Playfair Display is a bold serif font that commands attention. With its more rounded flourishes, it has a more playful feel than your typical serif font, giving your headings a sense of authority while maintaining a sense of fun. Paired with Alice, the fonts marry together for a whimsical effect that gives your projects a dose of character without sacrificing on legibility and function.

What font pairings should I choose for different types of projects?

The type of font pairings you choose is likely to vary depending on the type of project you're working on. For example, CVs need heavy headers and clean body text, while flyers and posters for events can work well when they have quirky or funky display text to get grab attention paired with a much cleaner body text for contrast and legibility of the important details.

Social media content is shown at relatively small sizes, so it needs both fonts to be quite clear, but you can still look for a bold, more stylish font for the display text and something nice and crisp for the body. A popular combination for event invitations is to use a script font for the display text and an elegant but clean and legibly sans serif for the body copy.

For more design inspiration, check out the best Instagram font generators to spruce up your profile. If you're after more font news, take a look at the stunning Fortnum and Mason fonts that are a classy tribute to British typographic history.

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10 Beautiful Font Combinations For All Your Design Needs

Stuart Crawford

Font combinations are as fun to look at as they are to use. You can create endless stunning design combinations with a few different fonts .

I’m a colossal font fan—the more beautiful and well-designed, the better. But what happens when you get a project with two or three fonts that need to be used? You end up spending so much time looking for fonts and fiddling with them that you wish you’d made one good decision in the first place.

I’ve compiled this list of my favourite font combinations—that you can use to create a truly stunning design in less than 30 seconds.

When you design , your fonts must be easy to read so your target audience can quickly understand what you’re trying to say. These beautiful font combinations will help you get started.

1 – Complement or contrast

For starters, always look for font pairings that complement one another.

The last thing you want is for both fonts to fight for the viewer's attention.

The ideal combination should harmonise without risking being too similar.

The idea of using multiple fonts is to create visual diversity, so there's no point in choosing broadly identical two.

The more similar they are, the more likely they will clash.

Equally, two very different fonts could be in danger of pulling your design in opposite directions.

If you get the combo right, the viewer can almost not notice what you have done.

Then you know you have found a pairing that rolls off the eye.

So when it comes to font combinations, the golden rule is complement or contrast, but never conflict.

2 – Keep it in the family

The most straightforward way of guaranteeing that a font pairing works perfectly is by using different fonts within the same typeface family.

Some fonts are members of ‘superfamilies', meaning they come with different weights, styles and classifications specially designed to work together.

For example, the Avenir superfamily includes the following sub-fonts: Avenir Heavy, Avenir Medium, Avenir Light, Avenir Next, Avenir Bold, Avenir Condensed, Avenir Roman, and Avenir Oblique, all of which come in italic, bold and regular font pairs.

Any font combinations will work well together, so you cannot go wrong by keeping it in the family.

3 – Opposites attract

As with colours , typefaces will often conflict if they are too similar (imagine pairing hot pink with dark red).

Two ever-so-slightly different fonts will rarely work together.

When done right, contrast is finding surprising and bold oppositions in a style that brings out the best in each other.

Combining serif with sans serif is a classic move for good font combos.

It is the salt and pepper of the font world.

Serif fonts are slightly more old-fashioned and traditional (examples include Times New Roman and Garamond ) and always have strokes at the edges of letters.

By contrast, sans-serif fonts are sleek and modern (examples include Futura and Helvetica ) and never have strokes, opting instead for clean lines.

A robust superfamily will include serif and sans serif variations of the same typeface, as with Lucida and Lucida Sans.

If you find a superfamily that includes serif and sans serif, you have a ready-made contrast package for font combinations.

4 – Who's the boss?

Establishing a clear hierarchy is crucial when combining two very different fonts.

One should ideally be more prominent than the other.

This can be achieved by varying the size and weight of each typeface or even incorporating colour into the mix.

Try an eye-catching, 30pt title in white sans-serif Futura, with a subtle, neutral grey, 12pt subtitle in serif Garamond.

This will undoubtedly present Futura as your primary font and Garamond as your go-to alternative for detail, extra information and support.

So now you are clued in on our hot tips.

These four simple rules will provide you with visual harmony in most situations.

However, with such a diverse world of professional typefaces (and a growing range of free fonts ), how can you choose just two complimentary fonts?

Let alone two that work together!

We bring you ten perfect font pairings to suit all your design needs.

1 – Futura Bold & Souvenir

Mixing two such strong typographic personalities is a risk that rarely pays off as they fight it out.

However, somehow, this pairing works.

Allan Haley described Souvenir as being “like Times Roman dipped in chocolate” – playful, goofy and light.

It was created in 1914 and envisaged as a throwback to earlier Art Nouveau models.

In contrast, Futura is bold , optimistic, and serious, concerned with modernism and forwardness.

Following Bauhaus's principles of futurism, Paul Renner created Futura in 1927, emphasising geometric forms; hence, we find near-perfect circles, triangles and squares within each letter.

So here we have two very different typefaces from two distinct periods, created for almost different purposes, that somehow bring out the best in each other.

The slightly innocent smile of Souvenir plays into the strident personality of Futura in a way that lightens the mood of both.

The font combination makes for a clean, quirky, instantly pleasing pairing.

Best Alternatives to Futura and Souvenir:

2 – Rockwell Bold & Bembo

One of the classic slab serifs, Rockwell , was designed by the Monotype Corporation in 1934 and had a tremendous personality and attention-grabbing potential when used in bold.

It has a very geometric quality, too – think of it almost like the serif Futura.

Bembo is a neutral yet versatile serif; sleek, light and conservative.

It is thin yet elegant, as though it is made of bamboo.

Try using Rockwell Bold for your headlines, titles, and website buttons.

Bembo will slot perfectly beneath as a subtitle, body text or detail for one of the best font combinations.

Best alternatives to Rockwell and Bembo:

3 – Helvetica Neue & Garamond

This is a notoriously compatible duo.

Using the timeless favourite Helvetica Neue for headlines and the classic Garamond for text, you invite the reader into a world of elegance, tradition and classiness.

Font combinations of a neo-grotesque sans-serif and an old serif are safe to bet and work exceptionally well in corporate contexts.

Opting for different weights and sizes can establish a social hierarchy between the two neutral families.

It is clear, crisp and traditional.

The best alternative to Helvetica Neue and Garamond:

4 – Super Grotesk & Minion Pro

The increasingly ubiquitous serifed Minion Pro does impeccable work as a headlining font in this delicious pairing.

Designed in 1990 for use in the Adobe suite and inspired by late Renaissance-era type, this font is the child of two parents: the pinnacle of modern creative design (Adobe) and the most critical artistic era in human history (the Renaissance).

Coupled with the elegant sans-serif Super Grotesk , these two fonts carry a modern sense of classical beauty with minimal effort.

This is a classy combination, indeed.

Best alternative to Super Grotesk and Minion:

5 – Montserrat & Courier New

Montserrat is a Google font created recently, specifically for online use.

Since its creation, it has become trendy and widespread.

You will see it all across the internet, on stylish websites, blogs, and Instagram posts .

Its astronomical success is simple: it is an elegant, sleek, sans-serif typeface that is perfect in almost any context.

How exciting then, as one of the top font combinations for Montserrat – the poster child of online typefaces – with the instantly recognisable font of the classic typewriter, Courier New .

This pairing is quite literally the best of the old and the new.

The thick inkiness of the 20th-century type brings a natural weight to the sleek, almost intangible lightness of 21st-century online lettering.

This is a perfect font combination if your brand or product also straddles past and present, and you want to signal that you are keeping ahead of the curve without cutting ties to the past.

Best alternatives to Montserrat and Courier:

6 – Playfair Display & Source Sans Pro

There's a clue in the name of “ Playfair Display ” – any typeface with the word display in its title is usually designed for more extensive uses, such as headlines.

Playfair Display is a great option when you want to go more significant, and it retains an effortlessly modern look for a Serif-style font.

According to its designer, Playfair Display was inspired by 18th-century letterforms that emerged during the transition from feather-based quills to steel-tipped pens.

With this in mind, it is hardly surprising that the font evokes such old-world charms but with a hint of modernism.

Add into the mix Source Sans Pro, and we start to push things further into the present, creating an enticing, discrete combination while still being very functional.

Playfair Display is a great way to add that personal touch to a tagline, slogan or product description.

Its ampersand and currency symbols are unrivalled, so it is ideal if your product or service is built upon luxury and classiness.

You can ask an  AI presentation maker tool  to infuse your content with Source Sans Pro, ensuring your text remains grounded in a modern, clean, inviting, and easy-to-read presentation.

Best alternatives to Playfair Display and Source Sans.

7 – Amatic SC & Josefin Sans

This is one of the great font combinations, albeit one that's more on the light-hearted side of chic.

With that in mind, this pairing may not work in every context, but if you are going for gentle whimsy, the mixture of Amatic SC and Josefin Sans will stand out.

While this is not necessarily the proper selection for a corporate context, it does work well if you are an artist, musician or entertainer looking to convey a unique personality.

It is free-spirited, fun-loving and easy-going.

Depending on the style and tone (as well as the subject matter), this combination could work well for a blog .

In any case, don't use Amatic SC as your main body text (your readers will go mad).

Amatic SC is for the titles and headlines, while Josefin sans is for use as body text, be it short taglines, longer paragraphs, or prose.

Best alternatives to Amatic and Josefin Sans:

8 – Century Gothic & PT Serif

As you can see by now, we were not lying when we said that sans serif plus serif is a classic font combination.

It is the best way to achieve contrast without conflict.

Another excellent example of this tried and tested move Century Gothic and PT Serif .

Century Gothic owes a lot to Futura.

The classic Art Deco font knowingly inspires it, but with subtle differences.

Luckily, these differences are enough to set Century Gothic apart from Futura, which (enormous thanks to Wes Anderson) has become incredibly common.

PT Serif is an excellent serif typeface and never fails to work well as paragraph text.

These two fonts have natural chemistry; they are a smart choice if you want a classic pairing that isn't overused.

Best alternatives to Century Gothic and PT Serif:

9 – Raleway & Lusitana

Here are some beautiful free fonts from Google in Raleway and Lusitana .

Raleway puts the funk into function as an elegant font with many practical applications.

Lusitana is warm, welcoming and down-to-earth.

Combine the two, and you have a dynamic that always works.

Remember that using two Google fonts means straying into contemporary online aesthetics.

The reader can often tell that these are new because we subconsciously recognise older fonts, even if we cannot identify them by name.

There's something about these fonts, which have never been made into an actual foundry type, which makes them feel like digital newcomers.

This is perfect if you want to look sleek and modern, such as for a digital magazine , but not so good if you are branding as long-standing and authentic.

Best alternatives to Raleway and Lusitana:

10 – Source Sans Pro & Times New Roman

Times New Roman is so widely used (a standard font on Microsoft Word) that it is rarely found in web designs .

Primarily because most graphic designers go for newer (and free-er) typefaces in their plans.

That said, it is essential not to forget about Times New Roman or throw it to one side like an old toy that has been overplayed.

It is still a great typeface; it is a highly readable, classic serif that will bring a sense of familiarity and tradition to your design.

Source Sans Pro is a slightly more modern typeface that works nicely alongside Times New Roman, primarily if you are marketing a timeless, familiar, conventional brand.

Best alternatives to Source Sans and Times New Roman:

11 – Euclid Circular: Simple lines, a clear message

Euclid Circular’s design is already highly preferred in digital and printed media due to its simple formation of characters and its open feel. The rounded characters' minimal shapes and the angular ones' simple strokes make a soft impression on the reader and, in most cases, go unnoticed. 

Since the formatting is simple and non-imposing, many digital spaces use it, like news sites, announcement forums, or specific informational hubs. The spacing and shapes make it easy to read and, in typical Internet fashion, get the details you need in one glance.

The same goes for websites that review and break down products or services. With the right frontend design of the entire page, soft colours and Euclid Circular as the preferred font, sites can deliver the message quickly without hassle. For example, the UK casino bonus review resource Kingcasinobonus chose this route: their site is well-adjusted on all screen sizes, and users can navigate quickly from section to section with just a few swipes.

Combining fonts is a risky business, but one that can pay off with tremendous rewards.

Here, we have ten beautiful, ready-made font combinations that will delight in various contexts.

We have the duo, whether you are going for old-fashioned or contemporary, friendly or professional.

Also, remember that beautiful fonts make for beautiful brands .

If you feel bold and want to create your font combination, follow our guidelines: complement or contrast; never conflict.

Look for bold oppositions in the font pairing chart (the more variety, the better) because minor differences clash.

Establish a hierarchy using weight, size or colour – and when in doubt, you can always fall back on a trusty superfamily.

Bear these rules in mind, or use one of our favourite font combinations as inspiration, and you will be well on your way to typeface mastery.

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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!

If you want to spend less time designing from scratch, consider giving our AI presentation maker a try! From a single prompt, it will generate dozens of templates for you to choose from, along with suggested text and relevant images or charts and graphs. From there, you can pick the most suitable template and tweak it as you need, including color palettes and the text. Not to mention, picking the best font to make your message shine.

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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.

We’re also featuring a few helpful tips for choosing a presentation font to help get you started.

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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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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 presentations! This is a list of typefaces intended for multiple uses in slides, and it will certainly boost your PowerPoint design ideas for the greater. Let’s take a look at some of the best fonts for PowerPoint.

#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 in PowerPoint, 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. That’s why we choose it as one of the best fonts for PowerPoint presentations.

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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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.

If this article has helped you, why don’t you have a look at some other font-related content from GraphicMama:

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