1. Georgia Matthew Carter also designed Georgia, the next one on our list of easiest fonts to read on screen and paper, which is actually another serif font that makes this list.

The PDF covers the design process behind the font and provides plenty of example uses for it, like instruction pamphlets. The original Roboto fonts include Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters.

Si Daniels/Microsoft Design After 15 years of starting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook with the Calibri font as the default, you'll soon be greeted by a new look in your documents: Meet Aptos ...

For those without a clue about fonts, or the typeface geeks needing an at-a-glance reference, this chart provides letter samples, family and class distinctions, and the designer and year of creation.

Serif fonts look more elegant and traditional, and were commonly used in Roman stone carvings. Sans serif means without serifs. These are more (legible) and are used for large blocks of text.