The Perfect Excel Font
The Perfect Excel Font
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Is there such a thing as a perfect font for excel?
Compare the fonts shown below.
DejaVu Serif distinguishes between I and l (I and l) and allows good superscripts using standard characters (not using superscript character formatting).
(Unfortunately DejaVu Sans Serif loses the loses the distinction between I and l. )
1lI0O¹⁵ Arial
1lI0O¹⁵ Arial Unicode
1lI0O¹⁵ DejaVu Serif
1lI0O¹⁵ Tahoma
1lI0O¹⁵ Trebuchet
So for engineering spreadsheets where you need clarity for writing equations DejaVu Serif looks like a good choice.
Compare the fonts shown below.
DejaVu Serif distinguishes between I and l (I and l) and allows good superscripts using standard characters (not using superscript character formatting).
(Unfortunately DejaVu Sans Serif loses the loses the distinction between I and l. )
1lI0O¹⁵ Arial
1lI0O¹⁵ Arial Unicode
1lI0O¹⁵ DejaVu Serif
1lI0O¹⁵ Tahoma
1lI0O¹⁵ Trebuchet
So for engineering spreadsheets where you need clarity for writing equations DejaVu Serif looks like a good choice.





RE: The Perfect Excel Font
Excel is a rather poor tool for writing equations, don't you think? I would even use Word's Equation Editor over Excel for something like that. Since it comes with Office, that should be the tool of choice, particularly since it's free.
The alternatives would be:
> the full-blown MathType package from Design Science, from whic MS got Equation Editor
> Mathlook for Excel from UTS: http://www
Mathlook's something that can be directly integrated with Excel. There are probably a couple of other packages that are around.
One obvious issue is that you probably shouldn't be using a single typeface for everything, as well as avoiding mixing text and variables in the same cells.
But, since I use Mathcad practically every day, that's my tool of choice.
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