• JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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      Agreed, i do like that its a little more ‘light’ but it also doesnt feel quite as professional or readable.

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    Doesn’t look super subtle to me. Personally (besides Apple defaults, which are great too), I tend to use Roboto.

    I don’t use anything Microsoft so I obviously don’t care, but I think just changing it on existing documents is kind of weird, and people are perfectly justified being annoyed by that. Change it going forward. Don’t alter stuff people already did.

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      8 months ago

      I love Linux Libertine. An excellent font for professional looking documents!

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    (Technically Aptos and Calibri are typefaces, while a “font” refers to a particular face or size, like italics or boldface.

    “They were big, blocky letters, and they called them ‘grotesque.’ They were bold and easily legible from far.” At the time, a sans serif was rarely used for more than one or two words or a single sentence.

    It helped that most people thought sans serifs looked better on a computer, which was rapidly becoming the writing instrument of choice worldwide.

    The designer, Steve Matteson, “brought a little more — he called it ‘imperfections’: little bits of change that are slightly different from a typical sans serif font,” Mr. Friedman added.

    “It’s both quirky and creates a more natural feel that brings in some of the serif font ‘je ne sais quoi’ to it,” he added.

    When The New York Times added color to its print front page in 1997, some people complained that the staid paper had become unnecessarily flashy, though such gripes faded quickly as readers grew used to the change.


    The original article contains 869 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 80%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    I’m not an office user but that font looks good to me.

    Arial is an old fashioned (designed for paper) font and not even a good one, while Calibri is just a good implementation of the same style of font. Aptos is properly modern with nice wide characters and sensible letter spacing, definitely glad they’ve made the switch.

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    So let me get this straight. It replaces Calibri, but nowhere on the page is a visual comparison of the two.

    It seems like something you’d put right at the top.

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        Almost feels like it’s more about kerning than actual character changes. Though I do prefer the symbols of calibri.

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          The kerning is absolutely awful.

          Just look at the “cr” in “hovercraft”.
          Or the “zy” in “lazy”.
          Or the “rtz” in “quartz”.
          Or “sph” in “sphinx”.

          I get that kerning is hard, but the inconsistencies in Aptos actually make it harder to read, despite the glyphs being wider and more distinct.

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        Ehhh I don’t like the new one. Calibri’s better. I wish it had a better g though.

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        I think it’s an improvement. The characters feel a bit more confident if that makes sense. In particular, I think the M Q and S kinda suck in calibri. But honestly calibri kinda sucks in general so doing one up on it isn’t that hard. I think aptos is a bit too bubbly for a default. I do like the curve on the l though. Still I think there are better fonts.

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        The letters are more pleasant, but my god, that kerning is absolutely awful. It’s horribly inconsistent, and some combinations of letters are spaced apart by half the size of an entire space, while others have barely any spacing.

        For as bad as calibri is, at least it was easy to tell words apart.

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        The hero we need! Ty!

        I’m not entirely sure why but Calibri has always mildly annoyed me. Maybe because it was the new default at one point and I preferred something else. Or maybe because I felt that the default font size should be 10 or 12 points not…11 (pffft huff) Maybe it was just misplaced resentment for having to use Office products (at work). The new one has kind of a fun look, though. Maybe I will enjoy it.

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          I recall when Times New Roman was default. Calibri felt strange at first.

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      I seem to recall changing the default font back to calibri and not thinking much of it.

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      8 months ago

      This is much the same as Calibri, Arial and other bundled fonts. Even Times New Roman is meant to be licensed for commercial work.

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        Right, but they’ve changed the default from one that’s been around for about 15 years and for which there are numerous open source alternatives to a new one.

        The open source fonts will catch up eventually but really all this is about is them refreshing their proprietary shit for 365, and making it cloud based to boot.

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    I would like to represent those of us who use Word everyday and either kinda like it, or just don’t give a shieeeet

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    As a type nerd, I’m slightly mollified. I’ve had to spend the last 17 years pretending like Calibri is a respectable font and not Comic Sans with a suit and tie