Fonts are the unsung heroes of PowerPoint design, shaping the way we perceive and engage with content. Our July 11 post was focused on the mayhem of unintended fonts that accumulate in PowerPoint slide decks. We received several questions about the blog posts’ opening animated graphic, which directly relates to this – the choice of what font to use.
Designers invest a lot of time carefully testing and experimenting to select the perfect font for each project. However, if you read our deep-dive into the subject of PowerPoint’s font mayhem situation, you might have wondered why we used “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” as our example? It is the most famous pangram in English as it contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. Using pangrams for font selection is extremely helpful since every letter is displayed making font selection a bit easier. Of course, the sentence is also short so it’s easy to view, and to remember.
Fun Fact: the pangram is commonly mistaken for “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” But that is incorrect because “jumped” instead of “jumps” excluding the letter “S” being represented.
By understanding the nuances of font selection and leveraging this quick and easy to use pangram, it makes font selection for PowerPoint templates and presentations much more visual, which the TLC Creative team always finds easier to work with!