This question was asked in 2011: Do editors still expect Courier font in book submissions for publication? A couple people said they found a monospace font helpful to have space to insert editing symbols.
Nowadays, with more and more submitting being done electronically, does font matter?
The agent or publisher will post instructions on its submission website. This has not changed. Typically, they will read your query in plain text, so it doesn't really matter what font you use as long as it can be converted to plain text. Once you get past the query phase, the instructions you receive will be explicit.
Nowadays, with more and more submitting being done electronically, does font matter?
It depends on the file format. It's much harder to change the font on a PDF than on a Word document.
As a writer, work with a tool that makes it easy to produce output with different fonts for submitting to editors.
And, unless you've already found success in the marketplace, avoid typographic gimmicks like The Mouse's Tale in Alice in Wonderland.
