🖋 A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font
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Hey Folks!

We’ve been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.

I wrote the article, so let me know if there’s something you’d like to see as well :D

Cheers !

Still adapting to Calibri … I liked arial because it was usually near the top of the font list so it was easy to find, lol

@duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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Maybe that’s why the new one got renamed to Aptos, ha.

@jdsalaro@beehaw.org
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Why? I’m not getting the joke :D

@krogers@beehaw.org
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31Y

It will be near the top of the list of fonts since it begins with “A”. I think that was what they were getting at.

@LucyLastic@beehaw.org
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Thank you for getting the joke :-)

@jdsalaro@beehaw.org
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Haha big brain time :P

Rentlar
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Heyyyyy a fellow Arial fan. The Aptos font feels like the Mac version of Arial.

@jdsalaro@beehaw.org
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I liked arial

OK, you’re the only person who has managed to make me angry hehe :)

Someone actually likes Arial ??!!

Aside from using it to make jokes? It’s not bad, a legible sans-serif that renders well on low resolution screens. A lot of discussions about “clean” fonts seem to squabble over minutiae while the important part of being readable seems forgotten.

@jdsalaro@beehaw.org
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I agree wholeheartedly, it’s readable, but oh so ugly and brutalistic :P

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