(I’ve never once set anything in Arial, for example, but it’s a near daily irritation thanks to its ubiquity.)įor 15 years, our beloved Calibri was Microsoft’s default font andĬrown keeper of office communications, but as you know, our Thus, Microsoft’s typographic choices affect us all. But it’s impossible not to encounter documents created with Office, whether you personally use it or not. I have never regularly used any Office app other than Excel, and that was over 20 years ago. I know this is just a lighthearted salutation, but it’s not the typing of text that exposes “everyone” to Office’s default font, it’s the reading of text.
Si Daniels, principal program manager for fonts and typography, Microsoft Office design (my god do people at Microsoft have long titles), in a much-noted post last week on Medium, 1 “ A Change of Typeface: Microsoft’s New Default Font Has Arrived”:ĭear every human on earth that’s ever typed text, Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents Friday, 21 July 2023
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