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For the past 14 years, Calibri has been the default font for all things Microsoft, after it replaced Times New Roman as the go-to in Microsoft Office in 2007.
The typeface has shown up in Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and Excel sheets
since then.
“Default fonts are perhaps most notable in the absence of the impression they make. We seldom give them much thought, and therein lies their greatest gift," say the Microsoft design team in a recent blog post.
Scroll through our gallery above to see the font nominees and what their creators have to say about them.
"When a font blends into the background of a user experience, people can jump right into the creative process and stay grounded in their thoughts rather than thinking about the form those thoughts take."