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A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font

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Personal activity log of lessons learned, obscure and not so obscure technical tidbits and even some philosophy rants, which are a by-product of my personal and professional comings and goings.

Hey Folks!

We've been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.

I wrote the article, so let me know if there's something you'd like to see as well :D

Cheers !

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Still adapting to Calibri ... I liked arial because it was usually near the top of the font list so it was easy to find, lol
- Maybe that's why the new one got renamed to Aptos, ha.
  
  Why? I'm not getting the joke :D
  
  It will be near the top of the list of fonts since it begins with "A". I think that was what they were getting at.
  
  Thank you for getting the joke :-)
  
  Haha big brain time :P
- I liked arial
  OK, you're the only person who has managed to make me angry hehe :)
  Someone actually likes Arial ??!!
  
  Aside from using it to make jokes? It's not bad, a legible sans-serif that renders well on low resolution screens. A lot of discussions about "clean" fonts seem to squabble over minutiae while the important part of being readable seems forgotten.
  
  I agree wholeheartedly, it's readable, but oh so ugly and brutalistic :P
- Heyyyyy a fellow Arial fan. The Aptos font feels like the Mac version of Arial.

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