If your organisation has it’s own brand guidelines, you may be stuck with what fonts you can use.

The main thing to think about is the accessibility of the font. Is it a font that you can only use in your building? by just your team? Some organisations have their own custom fonts created for them, but as they are generally installed locally, whilst you can see it on your computer, someone else may not be able to see it on theirs if they're at home or connected to cloud.

The best chance of creating an accessible dashboard that you can lock down and guarantee how it’s displayed in different environments is by using global standard fonts.

There are standard open web fonts that are accessible with any browser (Enterprise), and other fonts that should be pre-installed on every computer (Designer).

Here is a short list of the best fonts to use for globally accessible dashboards.

Open Sans

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian likes to use ‘Open Sans’ for its fonts, you’ll see it across all the new developments coming out in the latest releases. Open Sans is a free web font and most should have on their machines nowadays. Great for displaying nice dashboards and charts in enterprise mode.

Segoe UI

If you find you can't use Open Sans on your systems, we suggest you use ‘Segoe UI’ which is a really nice windows font that we’ve historically used everywhere else in the software.

(Good ol’) Verdana

If all else fails, Verdana is going to be available on pretty much everything so always a handy fall-back.

This should give you a good idea when creating or re-vamping your dashboard to ensure the experience you create is the same for everyone who uses your pages. It took long enough to get them perfect, let's make sure everyone can share that experience every time.