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“Today we begin the final phase of this major change where Aptos will start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users,” explains Si Daniels, a principal program manager at Microsoft, in a design blog post today. “And, over the next few months it will roll out to be the default for all our customers.”“Today we begin the final phase of this major change where Aptos will start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users,” explains Si Daniels, a principal program manager at Microsoft, in a design blog post today. “And, over the next few months it will roll out to be the default for all our customers.”

I'm not sure I understand why they want to replace Calibri, but I guess a fresh typeface every now & then isn't a bad thing.

What do you all think of this Aptos?

It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

While Aptos will replace Calibri as the default, Calibri will still be pre-pinned at the top of a new font menu (only available on web initially) alongside its predecessors, Times New Roman and Arial.

It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

[ comments | sourced from HackerNews ]

It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.

[ sourced from The Verge ]