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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?

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[-] Myro@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Here is a good comparison of both font types: https://office-watch.com/2023/aptos-calibri-comparison/

Ibe always been a Calibri (and Segoe UI) Fan, but Aptos looks nice as well.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, isn't that a neat horizontal slider for this comparison? Thanks!

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