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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (theverge.com) (www.theverge.com)

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“Today we begin the final phase of this major change where Aptos will start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users,” explains Si Daniels, a principal program manager at Microsoft, in a design blog post today. “And, over the next few months it will roll out to be the default for all our customers.”“Today we begin the final phase of this major change where Aptos will start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users,” explains Si Daniels, a principal program manager at Microsoft, in a design blog post today. “And, over the next few months it will roll out to be the default for all our customers.”

I'm not sure I understand why they want to replace Calibri, but I guess a fresh typeface every now & then isn't a bad thing.

What do you all think of this Aptos?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aptos: grotesque/neo-grotesque, more in common with Helvetica/Arial.

Calibri: humanist, squarely in the Frutiger ~~knockoff~~ family.

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Tangential: strange though how brief Calibri's reign as default font was, even after the US Government declared it the official document font (replacing Times New Roman) by resident typography expert, Antony J. Blinken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently, I'm a Frutigerphile. :)