Instructors and publishers vary in how they specify length requirements. The footnote font might be smaller than the text font (and have different line spacing), and it is not necessary to change it. footnotes: When inserting footnotes with the footnotes function of your word-processing program, use the default font settings.computer code: To present computer code, use a monospace font such as 10-point Lucida Console or 10-point Courier New.figures: Within figure images, use a sans serif font with a type size between 8 and 14 points.Use the same font throughout your paper, with the following exceptions: For more on how font relates to accessibility, visit the page on the accessibility of APA Style. Historically, sans serif fonts have been preferred for online works and serif fonts for print works however, modern screen resolutions can typically accommodate either type of font, and people who use assistive technologies can adjust font settings to their preferences. We recommend these fonts because they are legible and widely available and because they include special characters such as math symbols and Greek letters. serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or normal (10-point) Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX).sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode.But that’s the point, just list a bunch of fonts in the order you want to use them and CSS will fall down the stack until it finds one it has.A variety of fonts are permitted in APA Style papers. The actual font stack to do this is fairly thick. If the OS uses “San Francisco” in the UI, the font-stack should display San Francisco. The point isn’t so much a single font stack that looks consistent across browser/platform/version, but a single font stack that matches what that OS uses.
The trend isn’t just a return to local fonts but to what are being dubbed “system fonts”. Fast! Good enough! Let’s look at that for a sec, then also look at using them within SVG. There is loads of nuance on how you load them.Īlso no surprise, there is some advocacy for the return to local fonts. They need to be downloaded, thus there are performance/bandwidth hits. No surprise, there is also a decent amount of pushback on custom fonts. These days, an astonishing number of sites are using custom fonts.
Or even better, a font stack that would fall back to as-similar-as possible stuff, like font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif. There was a time when the smart move in picking fonts for a website was to a font-family that was supported across as many platforms as possible.
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