“We didn’t shy away from going large and circular. “We were craving something very round, wide, and crisp,” the designers said in Microsoft’s blog. It was designed by Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang, and notably uses large dots, accents, and punctuation that make it comfortable to read at small sizes.
You can send your favorites on social media to looks like a traditional workhorse sans serif font, but a little friendlier. Here are the five sans serif contenders Microsoft And just as people and the world around us age and grow, so too should our modes of expression.”Īlthough Calibri is retiring as the default next year, it will still be available among the hundreds of Microsoft Office fonts. “It’s the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails.
“A default font is often the first impression we make,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the change. But after 13 years, Calibri is starting to look a little dated, and Microsoft wants to give your emails and documents a fresh coat of paint. (Sans serif means no curly bits at the ends of the letters)Ĭalibri’s finest attribute, however, is that few people, apart from designers and typographers, even notice it. Its subtle curves make it a bit warmer than its blocky sans serif cousins Helvetica and Arial, two designer favorites that are famous - or infamous, in some circles - for their brutal simplicity and balanced stroke weight. It renders well on just about any screen, at any size, but it still has a bit of character. Calibri replaced Times New Roman (a noble type family but one with decidedly pre-internet aesthetic).ĭefault fonts are designed to be unobtrusive and adaptable, and Calibri has served that role capably. The company has commissioned five new custom typefaces to replace Calibri, a workhorse of a font that has been the default for all your Word docs and Outlook emails since 2007. And no, you can’t vote for the goofy options like Comic Sans, Wingdings or - heaven forbid - Papyrus.
Microsoft is changing its default font for the first time in nearly 15 years, and it wants your help selecting the new one.
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