Calibri

 Aptos is a minimalistic, sans-serif font with clean lines, simple letterforms with different weights, and clear legibility. Si Daniels/Microsoft DesignAfter 15 years of starting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook with the Calibri font as the default, you'll soon be greeted by a new look in your documents: Meet Aptos, the new default font that's replacing Calibri. Microsoft began searching for Aptos in 2021, when it commissioned five new fonts and asked users to help them choose their favorite: Bierstadt, Grandview,…

Microsoft is announcing a change for the first time in 15 years. The company has announced a change of typeface -- Microsoft’s new default font -- and introduced Aptos, a modern successor to Calibri. Modern, you say?Aptos is a result of Microsoft's search for a font for higher resolution screens that needed to have sharpness and uniformity."For 15 years, our beloved Calibri was Microsoft’s default font and crown keeper of office communications, but as you know, our relationship has come to a natural end. We changed. The…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The font style used in the U.S. State Department is changing, prompting complaints from employees who find the change to be an inconvenience. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent an email to the state department, headlined “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” ala Bob Dylan, saying they will be changing the font for high-level internal documents to the larger sans-serif font, Calibri, from Times New Roman, which has been used for more than two decades.Blinken said the department’s…