How is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.
It’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.
and the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)
The US State Department only just directed its employees to use Calibri for memos earlier this year. The State Department had been using Times New Roman instead since 2004.
Lmao
Honestly, they have probably kept times new Roman for other things, as a serif font it’s much harder to make the mistake between a capital I and a lower case l.
Ambiguity can cause problems.
At the same time, I agree, lmao.
L agree?
I my ass off?
This is at least the 4th official microsoft font I’ve been around for. What a time to be alive!
Why didn’t they just use Segoe UI? It’s a really nice font.
Segoe is so good. Criminally underrated.
It’s honestly one of my favorite all purpose fonts, very clean, but has much more personality than other san-serif fonts like Helvetia or Noto.
It does, but because of that I feel it needs to be used a bit more sparingly. Helvetica (Neue) you can use the entire document; Segoe seems like it works best for headings and such, but maybe I’m wrong and someone does it well.
I’ve been using this font in my stuff for years.
DAE hate Calibri?
Hate would be a too strong word, but I’ve disliked it always. Much prefer Arial or even Verdana.
Good to know. I’ll get ready for some user to complain about this today.
Previously known as Bierstadt
Missed opportunity. Long live Beertown! 🍻
As an avowed Calibri hater, thank fuck.
Wow, all these essential moves like azure ad to entra id and a new default font?
microsoft has be laying off the wrong people.
meanwhile, you can’t update powershell through winget.
I’ve never been a big fan of Calibri. Cambria was great, though. Aptos looks much better as a sans-serif font.
Looks like a return to Arial to me!
Meanwhile professors still be requiring essays done in Times New Roman, and all actual documents are done in the default because as long as its legible it doesn’t matter.
Oh except for a court case in 2044 when a lawyer notices “Aha! This document is dated from 2020 but the Aptos font wasn’t introduced until 2023, this document is forged!” Yes I can cite precedent, Your Honor; something similar happened with Callibri, introduced circa 2007.
Well it already happened https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961354/pakistan-calibri-font-scandal-forged-documents
See? Told you there was precedent.
Meanwhile professors still be requiring essays done in Times New Roma
A font I strongly dislike. Particularly in any electronic media it just looks unsightly to me for some reason I have never been able to articulate. I do tend to like sans-serif fonts more in general, but I don’t think that’s entirely it.
I hope to never return to an environment where someone is going to complain about just using Arial or similar.
The update hasn’t happened for me yet, so we’ve still got some time to get used to Bierstadt a.k.a. Aptos. It has a curve at the bottom of the lower-case l like Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, and Cascadia Code, but without the top serif.
It also takes up more horizontal space than Calibri. I don’t think I like it.
Top is Calibri, bottom is Bierstadt:
Again? I still haven’t gotten over the switchover from Times New Roman to Calibri.
Found the US State Department.
