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Currently, the default font used by Microsoft is called Calibri. Microsoft wants to move away from that default font, and in an effort to find its new default,
Microsoft Ditches Calibri and Now You Can Choose Their Next Default Font Much like professional wrestling, some fonts are just predetermined. And there’s a reason for that—time’s ticking, and you have to get work. There’s not a moment to be precious here. If you’re banging away at the screenplay or pilot, you’re stuck with Courier. You work in Google Docs? That’s Arial. And if you’re Margie in accounts receivable, every inter-office memo about how you can only have two slices of pizza when they have Quarterly Party is going to be Comic Sans, dammit.
It’s been 14 years since Calibri replaced Times New Roman. Fourteen years after using Calibri as its default font, Microsoft is now looking for a new design to update its system. This time around, the tech giant is asking social media users to vote for the next font to take over its systems. “We need to talk. What should our next default font be?” the company tweeted, along with samples of five original fonts created by a group of commissioned designers. Options include Tenorite (Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang), Bierstadt (S...
Microsoft changing default font for first time in nearly 15 years For more than a decade, Calibri has served as Microsoft's default font. That run is coming to an end and you can help pick its replacement. Author: Douglas Jones Updated: 12:38 PM CDT May 3, 2021 WASHINGTON — It has been the default font for Microsoft for over a decade, but now Calibri is about to be replaced by one of five new fonts, and even Calibri's creator is reportedly ready for the change. Last week, Microsoft announced that it will be searching for a new default font to replace Calibr...
Calibri designer surprised at Microsoft move to replace font By (0) Microsoft shared this graphic when it announced Wednesday it will replace Calibri as its default font. Image courtesy of Microsoft May 3 (UPI) -- The man who designed the Calibri font weighed in Monday on Microsoft's move to replace it as a default typeface after 14 years. Luc(as) de Groot -- a Berlin-based Dutch type designer who created "his superfamily Thesis: The Sans, TheSerif, TheMix, The Antiqua, with monospaced and even Arabic variants," according to his company website -- was surprised by the move. Advertisement "...