A good font to use to display a quote

A short summary slides of my answer at Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-a-good-font-to-use-to-display-a-quote-on-a-PowerPoint/answer/Alexey-Burba-1

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1. www.burba.pro 04.2019 Alexey Burba https://www.quora.com/What-would-be- a-good-font-to-use-to-display-a-quote- on-a-PowerPoint/answer/Alexey-Burba-1 What would be a good font to use to display a quote on a PowerPoint? answers at Quora
2. Use secondary font from your corporate brand book • Usually there are 2 fonts: a primary for a body text and a secondary for occasional use • If there is only one font — try to make a quote slide distinguishable by its layout (see step 3) No brand book — choose a font that pairs
 nicely with your main body font • Learn how to pair fonts — http://bit.ly/2XlMPLJ • In short — it is easier to pair sans-serif fonts with serif fonts. • If in doubt — just use a serif font for a quote Use an appropriate layout for the selected font • Serif fonts look better in a symmetrical layout • Sans-serif fonts look better in a left-align layout What would be a good font to use to display a quote on a PowerPoint? 1 2 3
3. Use secondary font from your corporate brand book • Usually there are 2 fonts: a primary for a body text and a secondary for occasional use • If there is only one font — try to make a quote slide distinguishable by its layout (see step 3) No brand book — choose a font that pairs
 nicely with your main body font • Learn how to pair fonts — http://bit.ly/2XlMPLJ • In short — it is easier to pair sans-serif fonts with serif fonts. • If in doubt — just use a serif font for a quote Use an appropriate layout for the selected font • Serif fonts look better in a symmetrical layout • Sans-serif fonts look better in a left-align layout What would be a good font to use to display a quote on a PowerPoint? 2 3 1 Primary: 20 Kopeek Secondary: Alegreya
4. CLASSIC layout MODERN layout Layout variations as you can guess there are numerous variations in-between
5. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms Font: Georgia Layout: Classical
6. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms Font: IBM Plex Serif Layout: Classical
7. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms Font: EB Garamond Layout: Classical
8. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” “Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms Font: Verdana Layout: Left-aligned
9. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” “ Font: Alegreya Sans Layout: Left-aligned Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms
10. DAVID J. COOPER “Literacy: Helping children construct meaning” “ Font: IBM Plex Sans Layout: Left-aligned Student comprehension scores
 were 50% higher for information presented in story form than for
 similar information presented
 in expository forms
11. Georgia EB Garamond Alegreya IBM Plex Serif Spectral Jannon Pro Adobe Garamond Adobe Jenson Baskerville Caslon Greta Serif fonts worth trying fonts.google.com free of charge Windows, MacOs
 free of charge myfonts.com fonts.adobe.com
 and so on
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