At my firm it is Georgia for pitch books, excel sheets and emails.
TBH, it looks great and you can cram a page with lots of info, but numbers look weird because they don't have a uniform vertical alignment.
I think Lazard uses Garamond which is pretty, but its italics look odd.
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Wingdings. It looks like hieroglyphics at first, but you grow to love them.
2:08am on Thursday night trolling a forum....
Cambria, which I approve of, as it aesthetically pleases the shit out of me. When emboldened, it retains its precision and when in italic form, the font remains tasteful yet distinguished. Don't even get me started on bold italics ... game, set, match, ya feel me?
Cambria is great! Smooth, attractive, and looks great in a variety of formats. Not to mention the numbers are aesthetically clean
Patrick Bateman vibes
Calibri, when we aren't using our own font, which is default for pitch books, presentations, etc. Our custom font looks better, IMO.
comic sans
Nice try, Compliance.
Don't give compliance the respect of capitalizing the "C"
Silian Rail.
In IB, it was Arial. In corp dev, we use Calibri.
Copperplate Gothic, we like to keep the 80s alive
Chicago
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