Opinion on fonts?

[Silvuh]

I had a teacher who said that serifs are out-dated, because we don't write in stone anymore, and all they do is take up more space anyway.
I do like Garamond, though. Especially that Adobe version that's a little slimmer.

My favorite Windows-default sans-serif font is Levenim MT. It's a Hebrew font, and I don't know how to get this version (2007) of Word to use Hebrew fonts for writing in the Latin alphabet. I used to always use the Hebrew font Miriam when I wanted to fit as much text into as few pages as possible. (I'd have like three pages front and back of articles, seeing other students with multiple four-ish page packets, printed directly from the Web .. heh.)

I also like using the default Asian fonts, because they have multiple weights, which can be convenient.

11-point font is nice. Smaller than 12 but still easily readable. I die a little inside every time I get a paper assignment that says "This paper must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman, double spaced." Double spacing... just, double spacing. //sour face// I don't feel like using twice as many pages, thanks. I squish a lot of stuff into a small space, and I can still read it. No room to write on it when I do that, but eh.

I'm not really picky with certain things, I guess. Colibri looks fine to me, and I don't usually care to change it.
When working on graphics, though ... that's totally different. I can screw around with specifics: the kerning, height, width, spacing, any options I'm given, going through all the fonts and ... yeah. Text in graphics is fun. Text in documents is whatever, or ... whatever.