I use Arial 10 font for details section and Arial 9 for headers with bold style

font color is black and white background ,

 

for Headers background I use faint shade in SILVER i.e you need to have custom color

 

Hue   160     Red    221

Sat    0         Green 221

Lum  208      Blue    221

 

 

Hue 154        Red    202

Sat  134        Green 208

Lum 208        Blue    240

 

if you need to have background color or default color which is white is always good.....

 

 

cheers

Rahul

 

I would agree with you that red on green is a poor choice of colors, even for the color blind(which I am to a degree). 

 

I don't think that there is a standard, but I am tend to use arial, but it is because I like it.  The font depends on how much info you are trying to cram into a report and how big the paper is (report requirements).

 

If there is color in my reports it is a colored line or set of lines, again because most reports are printed in black and white.  I have done shadings to differentiate different parts of the report (like alternating rows) and been told by the client that they don't want to use that much toner and to remove it, even though I think the report is harder to read, so color toner would have been out in a flash.

 

Hope some of this helped.