Microsoft is Removing 'Calibri' as Default and Wants Your Help to Choose Next Text Font

News 18 ^ | April 30, 2021 | Buzz Staff

[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

[BenLurkin]

Ah...but which one?

https://www.fontspace.com/category/chinese-restaurant

[kaehurowing]

Mandarin (Simplified)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Cattalonian;

https://www.1001freefonts.com/cattalonia.font

[SaveFerris]

Sweet! (and Sour)

[EinNYC]

Helvetica Neue is a pretty and easy to read font. I love going to Adobe and hungrily eyeing all the pretty new fonts they have there for my Illustrator and Photoshop. They have some really pretty fonts!

[Atticus]

Want.

[lee martell]

“I’m not that type!” she exclaimed.

[shanover]

I like Covidana

[MonicaG]

Agree with Ariel. Always looks good. Also love the SWISS721 font family; sans serif and so versitile.

[null and void]

Tannerite!

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Bold Forced Vaccini

[grey_whiskers]

I choose Covid grave.

[grey_whiskers]

+1

[GraceG]

Use Libre Office, it’s better and it’s FREE!

[GraceG]

Comic sans is a great font.

Only Terminal is better.

[Kevmo]

Arial

[Kevmo]

GMTA

[Ben Dover]

On to Wing Ding.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for reminding me!

[Billthedrill]

I want it to be cursive. That way no one under the age of 25 will be able to read it.