Choosing the right fonts to use in Excel can be the difference between a readable spreadsheet and a useless spreadsheet. After all, there's no point in creating an all-singing-all-dancing ...

Make a new font out of your handwriting for fun or work.

For example, Aptos' upper-case O is much wider than its number 0 ... which is a plain, straight letter. Other fonts, however, muddle these identifying characteristics, so causing confusion.

It might seem like just a question of style, but research reveals fonts can dramatically shape ... like the symmetry of round shapes in the letter B,” says Tobias Frere-Jones, a designer whose ...