First Sort Customer Guide

Appendix A Recommended machine-readable fonts

Things to avoid

Font Arial

Size 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 12pt 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt

Typical problems that can cause your mail to be rejected are as follows:

Capelli-Plain Century-WP

• Characters with incorrect proportions e.g. stretched or condensed typefaces. Overlarge or small characters. • Quality of characters that are poorly printed or defined, either because they have been printed by poor quality printers, low resolution dot matrix printers or because the printer needs maintenance – worn ribbon, low on toner etc. Note: 10 point fonts read consistently better than 12 point fonts. A 12 point in one font may be smaller or larger than a 12 point in another font.

Classic Typewriter-Plain Corporate Mono-Plain

Courier

Courier New (TT)

Draft Plate-Plain

Dutch SWA

Helvetica

Letter Gothic Plain

Microscan-A

Microscan-B

New Century Schoolbook

Palatino

Pica Plain

Prestige Plain

Souvienne-Plain

Swiss SWA

Times Roman Weissach-Plain

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