Many standard fonts in Excel, including Aptos, Arial ... as the default font for Excel spreadsheets (at the time of writing).

The font also "had to generate trust and be ... we should "use sans serif fonts, such as Arial [...], as letters can appear less crowded." In fact, in Excel, the aim should always be legibility ...

Sans serif fonts, like Arial and Helvetica ... The most important characteristics bundled into a font include: Proportion: Letters become harder to parse when they start to resemble each other ...