Is there a way you can configure what font (and size) should be used by default for any textual object or model attribute? That definition should preferably also be used when "resetting character formatting".
Changing font formats for the design server or for an aris database has no impact other than how textual attributes are displayed in models - not when examining an object's/model's attributes...
We allow for formatted attribute values, but since specific formatting is not always used, attribute values for a specific type of attribute sometimes are formatted and sometimes not. In report-scripts, we check if an attribute contains a formatted value or not, and output the attribute value accordingly. Our Corporate standard font for "normal" text in Word documents is Times New Roman - so this is hard-coded in reports for non-formatted attribute values.
Since Aris' default font for textual attributes is Arial you (in reports) end up with formatted attribute values in (mostly) Arial (or, if the Aris-user explicitly changed font - any other font), and non-formatted in Times New Roman.