A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived

Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by booi on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:12AM (#36720474)

Calibri was never that great IMHO. Just like Apple with their San Francisco font, it’s worth a change to get a really great modern font and it looks like Microsoft went all out for Aptos. I like it

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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by troupo on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:30AM (#36720568)

Compare this to how Apple introduces San Francisco: https://youtu.be/OpveNRh-jXU

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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by whoopdedo on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:00PM (#36725842)

Call me old fashioned but there's only one San Francisco[1] to me. (Modern recreation[2] for current use.)

[1] https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31774/san-francisco-1984

[2] https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/urbanrenewal/

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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by TeMPOraL on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:20AM (#36720894)

Calibri was a big deal when introduced because, along with the other fonts in that cohort[0] (like Consolas), it was optimized for subpixel rendering (known on Windows as ClearType), which was a new thing too, and made huge difference in quality and comfort of reading text on flat panel displays. It was a good, practical reason to create new set of default fonts.

[0] - See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#ClearType_Font_Colle...

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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by whoopdedo on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:21AM (#36725265)

I always liked that they all began with 'C'. Made it easy to remember which were the default fonts that would be available on any Windows system.

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