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

[Starcitizen]

Use Libre Office, it’s better and it’s FREE!
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Only if you like incompatible documents and formatting problems that makes it so you can’t share documents with those who actually use a modern version of office.

Or revert to a Word 2007 compatible format (all the open source crap has problems with anything past that due to not being able to use and parse Microsoft XML properly.

Worst compatibility is LibreOffice’s terrible PowerPoint ‘clone’. Everything broken.

[Bob434]

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[Bob434]

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[Bob434]

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I like New Times Roman. Could read the letters clearly. Have no idea what I’m using at home but it’s okay for limited writing.

I’ve forgotten how to find my fonts and I don’t care.

[irishjuggler]

I vote for New Divorce Petition Bold.

[PallMal]

For fans of the 60's British series "The Prisoner", how about the default font being Albertus?

That's what it feels like right now in America.

[21twelve]

My default is Arial as well. For the new ones I like Seaford the best. There is enough difference between the italics and normal and bold and normal.

[Does so]

Easy on the eyes...

[martin_fierro]

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[virgil]

I like Arial

[Psalm 73]

Calibri sucks - I've been changing EVERYTHING back to Arial since 2007.

It's tedious.

[T.B. Yoits]

Arial 12 pt... what it should have always been.

Arial unfortunately is one of the fonts where the "l" and capital "I" are identical.

Any default font needs to add the option of a zero with a slash through it like Consolas. There are too many situation where users need to distinguish between Os and zeros.

I like Calibri. Tahoma is good too.

[T.B. Yoits]

Why are all the candidates sans serif? I prefer serif fonts.

Sans serif fonts on a computer screen put less strain on your eyes. Serif fonts are easier to read on paper.

[chrisser]

Perhaps Microsoft could focus on making their products work properly first, and then worry about the default font after that.

[Pollard]

How bout Ubuntu font?

[epluribus_2]

Sanscrit?

[Pardeeville Liberator]

Tahoma

[a fool in paradise]

At least it isn’t Classy Green Eyed Blonde