No More ‘Calibri’ Default Font for Microsoft Office

Microsoft is removing ‘Calibri’ from its default font settings. It is not a year where Times New Roman is making a comeback or Comic Sans is planning to take over, but Microsoft is changing its default font settings. Calibri has been the default font for the last 15 years. In 2007, Calibri stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office has now been officially removed.

Microsoft in a blog post said that “Calibri font has served us all well, but we believe it’s time to evolve”. Microsoft has come up with five new default fonts. It said that “Microsoft is introducing five original, customizable fonts to replace Calibri as the default font and would love to know your input about the brand-new fonts”.

For almost 15 years, Calibri has dominated the default font and is finally retiring and it’s replaced with five new sans serif fonts which feature a variety of styles including modern, traditional and the one is also inspired by German road and railway signs. Currently, Microsoft is gathering feedback on social media about these five new fonts and is planning to set up the new Office default font in 2022.

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The next five default fonts which Microsoft is coming up with are:

Tenorite

Bierstadt

Skeena

Seaford

Grandview

What do you know about Microsoft’s new default fonts?

1. TENORITE by Erin Laughlin and Wei Huang

This font has the look of traditional workhorse sans serif, which means a font without a stroke at the end, or font without a serif, like Times New Roman. This font looks warmer and has a more friendly style. The elements such as accents, large dots, and punctuation make Tenorite font easier to read at small sizes on screen. The wide characters and crisp-looking shapes create an interesting and open feeling.

2. BIERSTADT by Steve Matteson

This font is inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography. Bierstadt font is a precise and contemporary sans serif typeface. Because of its versatility in typography, it is highly readable as it expresses simplicity and rationality with clear-cut stroke endings that emphasize order and restraint.

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3. SKEENA by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow

This is a ‘humanist’ sans serif typeface that is based on the shapes of traditional fonts. Its strokes are modulated, with a noticeable contrast between thick and thin and a distinctive slice applied to the ends of many of the strokes. This font is ideal in long documents for body text. Skeena font is also found in shorter passages in presentations, reports, tables, and brochures.

4. SEAFORD by Tobias Frere-Jones, Nina Stössinger, and Fred Shallcrass

This font is designed in such a way that it gives the design of old-style serif text typefaces. Its organic and asymmetrical forms make it easier for the reader to emphasize the difference between letters, thus making it more readable and recognizable word shapes.

5. GRANDVIEW by Aaron Bell

This font is derived from German road and railway signage which makes it easier to read under poor conditions and designed in such a way that it can be legible at a distance. Grandview font is designed to use in body text but it holds the same qualities of high legibility and you can also make adjustments for long-term reading.

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