Posted on 05/06/2021 9:08:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Goodbye, Calibri. It’s 2021 and it may not be the year for Times New Roman to make a comeback or Comic Sans to takeover, but the default font for Microsoft is definitely changing. Late on Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Calibri, which has been the default font for all things Microsoft since 2007, when it stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office is being removed. “It has served us all well, but we believe it’s time to evolve," wrote Microsoft on its blog. “To help us set a new direction, we’ve commissioned five original, custom fonts to eventually replace Calibri as the default. We’re excited to share these brand-new fonts with you and would love your input," they added.
Calibri, which has dominated the default font for almost 15 years, is finally retiring now and it’s the replacement: The five new sans-serif fonts feature a variety of styles, including traditional, modern, and even one inspired by German road and railway signs. Microsoft is starting to gather feedback on these five new fonts on its social media and it plans to set one as the new Office default font in 2022.
Microsoft asked for popular opinion on Twitter. We need to talk. What should our next default font be? pic.twitter.com/fV9thfdAr4— Microsoft (@Microsoft) April 28, 202
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Comic Sans
Was Calibri accused of racism?
I tend to favour Lucida Console.
Arial
skeena and tenorite look good
bierstadt looks like thicker tenorite
That is lame.
1) I like Calibri and Cambira for sarifs. They are my defaults.
2) Why delete a font? Is there not enough RAM or something?
Oh never mind. They delete a font because, well because we can delete anything we want like the Taliban deletes 1000 year old Buddhist statues. Now get your vaccine!
Arial 12 pt... what it should have always been.
Why are all the candidates sans serif? I prefer serif fonts.
Verdana
Many core, very basic features that used to work in Office on the Mac are broken now. They crippled VBA. The whole Office suite is larded down with useless crap. They force you to pay an annual license fee now and the apps check in with the mothership regularly, delaying program launch.
And they want to spend money playing with FONTS? Is this a rewind to the 1984 wonders of WYSIWYG?
Idiots.
I usually default to Tahoma. Looks clean and gets the job done.
The Gilligan’s Island font seems like a good one.
Chinese Menu font is it.
Hate coloring
Arial
Did a hypersensitive get triggered or something? All the crap going on and they’re so in the weeds even fonts can get canceled? Damn!
Given the context of our current state of affairs, this is nothing more than distraction. Worthless, useless, gobbeldegook in a sea of gobbeldegook.
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