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Re:A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has ar... by einpoklum on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#36725376)
Well, I agree with you in general, but Calibri actually seems to have some / cause some trouble. I recently filed a bug against LibreOffice regarding the rendering of ligatures in documents with Calibri, where you see things like:

https://bug-attachments.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cg...

... and it turns out that this is due to the use of hard-coded bitmaps for ligature hinting provided for some glyphs but not others, which confuses rendering engines.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155199

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