Historians, for the most part, engage a fairly narrow spectrum of typography. The default settings in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect are satisfactory. We view web pages in Times, Arial, or Helvetica. And of course, we must not forget those students who squeeze out a couple of extra pages on their essays by using Courier. Upon further investigation, one begins to find that the historians' experience is not as narrow as one be initially assume.
Many historians are very sensitive about the fonts they use.
For example, a colleague recently searched long and hard for just the right Devanagari typeface. Another colleague informed me of the various types of Asian fonts and the difficulties one encounters when trying to use them. And of course, medievalists have been aware of typefaces, and multimedia for that matter, for a long time. For either the precise or creative medievalist, the fonts provided by Crazy Diamond Design are worth a look. The six available fonts are Chancery, Bastard Secretary, Formal Text Hand, Secretary, Italic, and the Hand of the Court of the Common Pleas.