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I thought the format of the document looked familiar... and then saw "Microsoft Corporation". I've seen a lot of other documents from them with the same formatting, and it always feels a bit weird to me --- something looks a bit off about the (body) font.

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Cambria. Personally I don't like it much, although I don't hate it as much as Computer Modern or Times. The main reason here is most likely that Cambria is also Microsoft's primary math typeface and having the body text and math use the same typeface is IMHO preferable.

Constantia pairs fairly well with Cambria as well, though.

> I don't hate it as much as Computer Modern or Times.

What (latex compatible) fonts do you like/recommend then?

In my opinion, it's kind of sad to see how strongly Computer Modern dominates the font choices in latex (and more generally the latex monoculture).

Well, this is personal preference and aesthetics, so I'm not sure others would have to follow. Palatino is nice, though and has a package where it's also the math font (mathpazo). That was as far as I got with fonts for plain old LaTeX.

Otherwise I'm currently using XeLaTeX (if I use LaTeX at all), so I'm not limited to compatible fonts and anything that's OpenType works.

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