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It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like a Calibri-fied version of Trebuchet. You can actually tell the difference between I and l without changing the font to check. It's an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Haha kbin's font makes those entirely identical.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's very inoffensive. That's definitely what they were going for but that also means there's not much to say about it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know how to explain why, but this article reads like garbage. Not in an AI way though.

Calibri is so widely used that it even became a key piece of evidence in a corruption investigation surrounding Pakistan’s prime minister in 2017.

What?! Fascinating. I'll just click the link and... Oh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be long past my last round-up before I give up my comic sans

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

A man of culture

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

I never really liked Calibri at any font size above like 14 pt maybe? Hopefully this new one is better than Arial and I can switch all my PowerPoints over to it.

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

I'm more of a Product Sans guy myself, but whatever floats your boat.

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

I love it! (I don't but I wanted to provide a 3rd contrasting viewpoint)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will resist this change with all my might.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because change? Or is there something about the font you strongly dislike?

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

You must do, what must be done.

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

Is it just me or does it look quite condensed in the examples

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

Was called Bierstadt during preview. I'm relieved to see the curve of "l". (Well, you possibly can't decide if I'm talking about an L or 1 or i. That's because Helvetica is a joke when it comes to distinguishability.)

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

How to get this font on linux?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As the 5th word in the Article tells us. It was Calibri.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It amuses me that this comment takes more words to get to the answer than the original article did.

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

I genuinely didn't realize it was an article not just a post saying so. 🤦‍♂️ Thanks for enlightening me!!

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