Microsoft wants your help choosing its next default font
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Microsoft is retiring Calibri as its default font and is asking the public to vote on its successor.
The technology company has commissioned five new fonts, which are already available for use across Microsoft 360 apps. They’re inviting users to choose their favorite by leaving comments on social media. A default font is often the first impression we make; it’s the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails, Microsoft said in a news release. And just as people and the world around us age and grow, so too should our modes of expression.
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Microsoft is introducing five new Office fonts and is leveraging the power of social media to find out which font should be the default one. In a tweet, Microsoft said: We need to talk. What should our next default font be? This was accompanied by a picture with the letter penned by the five new fonts and addressed to the font Calibri. We have loved our time together, but we have outgrown this relationship, the letter said and was signed off by the next potential default font - Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, and Grandview. Nonetheless, Microsoft reassured users that Calibri will always remain available even though it is no longer the default font.
Microsoft is retiring its default font - and wants users to help choose a new one
Microsoft is retiring its default font - and wants users to help choose a new one Thu, 29 Apr 2021, 2:46PM
Microsoft is changing its default font for the first time in nearly 15 years, and it wants your help selecting the new one. And no, you can t vote for the goofy options like Comic Sans, Windings or heaven forbid Papyrus.
The company has commissioned five new custom typefaces to replace Calibri, a workhorse of a font that has been the default for all your Word docs and Outlook emails since 2007. Calibri replaced Times New Roman (a noble type family but one with decidedly pre-internet aesthetic).