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Here is the context: "Write your essay in a regular font". What does it mean by "regular font"? What classifies as a regular font? Thanks!

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A regular font has no special treatments, such as italic or oblique, thin or bold. It is also not a stylized font, for example, Blackletter or Adventure.

Stick with a serif font like Times Roman, or a popular sans-serif font such as Helvetica.

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    I wouldn't write 'body copy' (like an essay) with a sans-serif font; I'd stick to non-monospaced serif-but-not-slab-serif fonts like your suggestion of Times, or Palatino, Bookman, Century Schoolbook, or any number of similar fonts that you might expect to see in a printed book. – Jeff Zeitlin Feb 13 '19 at 16:17
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    I would disagree with the first sentence. A regular font does not preclude variants of that font. It might not even preclude fonts which are supplied with an operating system (like Comic Sans). – Andrew Leach Feb 13 '19 at 16:27
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    You have provided a description of roman, not regular. – choster Feb 13 '19 at 17:03
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    @AndrewLeach - You make a very good point here, though I would tend to believe that it means that the instructor does not, in fact, want fonts such as «spit» Comic Sans. – Jeff Zeitlin Feb 13 '19 at 18:25