写电子邮件时尽量避免使用的五大字体

 Picking the right font for your email,presentation,or friendly notice stuck on the office wall can be head-aching。

　　在发电子邮件，做演讲，甚至在写个贴在办公室墙上的友情小提醒时，都需要选择一种字体。如何选择恰当的字体成了让人头疼的事情。
　　Fonts come in all shapes and sizes and colours. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to go mad and use just ANY font though: these ones are banned。
　　字体形状千差万别，大小不一，颜色各异。但这不意味着你可以随心所欲，选择使用任何字体：以下几种字体就不建议使用。
　　Step 1: Arial
　　Arial's been around so long, now, that it's comforting and familiar in the same way that makes middle-aged 1 men trade in their wives for a younger, sexier model. Arial is therefore the pixel equivalent of a frumpy, disappointing housewife
　　Arial已经陪伴我们太久了。如今，在使用这个字体时，人们常会顺理成章地联想到这个场景：一名中年男子抛弃了他的妻子，换了位更年轻，更性感的模特作伴。因此，Arial作为一种字体，与衣着邋遢的、心灰意冷的弃妇有异曲同工之妙。
　　Step 2: Times New Roman
　　Times New Roman is rarely appropriate in a futuristic web2.0-enabled society. It's clumsy, and has weird 2 ugly sharp twisty bits coming off each of the letters. Pick something properly classy like Verdana or Calibri, and let Times die。
　　在web2.0风靡的时代，Times New Roman这种字体已经不大适合用了。这种字体显得有些粗陋，每个字母都有很锐利的扭曲，显得怪怪的，很难看。选用一些漂亮的字体吧，比如Verdana or Calibri，让Times回家吃饭吧！
　　Step 3: Papyrus 3
　　Papyrus makes everything you type look like it was written in Ancient Greece!, albeit 4 by a ROBOT FROM THE FUTURE。
　　每个你用Payrus键入的字看起来都像古希腊语-尽管像是由一个“未来机器人”写下来的。
　　If you're using it, why not go whole hog 5 and flip 6 the colour to green and write “Save the trees! Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.。.” in your email signature like any of your emails are worth printing off。
　　如果你在使用这个字体，那一不做二不休，干脆字体颜色选成绿色，然后在你的e-mail下方签名中写“Save the trees! Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.。.”(爱护树木，人人有责！除非确实需要，否则请勿打印此邮件。)，这样一来，好像你的每封邮件都具有打印价值了一样。
　　Step 4: Comic Sans
　　The granddaddy of all unusable fonts. Initially 7 intended to be a quick comic book substitute, Comic Sans quickly found itself overused to the point of eye-bleeding saturation 8, and is now rarely seen outside the realm of ignorant office notes。
　　在不能使用的字体中，这是爷字辈的人物。最初，人们设计Comic Sans字体，是为了让其快速在连环画册中抢占一席之地，成为其专用字体。但很快，人们便发觉，这个字体被随处滥用，已经引起人的视觉疲劳了。如今，除了在办公室里，人们还用它写写没人关注的通知外，在其他领域，这种字体已经销声匿迹了。
　　Step 5: Curlz
　　“Look at me!”， this font says. “Look at how what I write perfectly 9 embodies 10 the sort of person I am! I'm a bit crazy, and a bit different. I stand out!”
　　“看看我吧！”这个字体挺张扬：“从我身上就完全能看得出，我是一个怎样的人！我有些轻狂，有些与众不同。我必将脱颖而出！”
　　It doesn't matter that you can't actually read what they're writing, because the sort of person that chooses a nonsense font like this invariably hasn't got anything important to say anyway。
　　读不太懂他们写的是什么也无妨，因为能选择这种荒唐字体的人，一般来说，也没什么重要的事情要讲。
　　TRUE STORY: the email invite to last year's VideoJug Christmas Party was written entirely 11 in red and green ‘Curlz' and the entire office was sick blood。
　　真实故事：去年，VideoJug圣诞聚会的邀请函就选用的Curlz字体，字体颜色全部选择的是红色和绿色。这让整个办公室的人都大倒胃口。
　　In short: be careful about which fonts you use, because the wrong one makes you look like a proper wally。
　　一言以蔽之：选择字体时一定要细心。因为一旦选错了字体，你便会看起来像个大笨蛋。