I'd appreciate some suggestions.
I'm typesetting a publication of papers from a university conference (in InDesign CS4). The publication will be in book format, A5 portrait, and part of my brief is to keep length (ie number of pages) to a minimum - which means many pages dense with unrelieved text.
The source documents are in Microsoft Word and Times New Roman - fairly standard, I imagine. I find large tracts of Times New Roman laborious and tiring to read, and (possibly by familiarity with it in a certain context) that it tends to look like it was printed out of Word. I need the end result to look intellectual and business-like, but hopefully to be a little fresher and inviting than I feel Times New Roman tends to look.
So can anyone suggest, please, a replacement face for this purpose? Perhaps (mindful of copy length) one with similar x-height and width ratio?