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Microsoft bids goodbye to Calibri font and asks users to vote on a new one

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It doesn't matter, all professors are probably still going to force you to use Times New Roman because we're all still stuck in Office 2003 apparently.

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It's worth pointing out that this is only a change to the default font for documents/etc in MS Office, not a change to Windows or even to the font used by the Office UI itself. The others don't use Calibri anyway - the default system font is Segoe UI.

 

Bierstadt would be my preference - it's clear, legible and doesn't try to do anything radical (cf. the ɑ rather than a in Tenorite, and the variable stroke widths on the e in Sleema), while also not being unnecessarily widely spaced (cf Grandview).

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On 5/1/2021 at 11:40 AM, AMD A10-9600P said:

I like Tenorite best, Bierstadt looks ok too. I definitely wouldn't be opposed to them keeping Calibri though. Is this the default font for their logo, or for Windows and Microsoft products in general?

 

Personally, my favourite logo font right now is Intel's with their 11th gen chips. It just looks very modern and is a big step away from their old design, whilst still remaining true to it, which I like.

 

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I vote for Courier New.  /s

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I like grandview the best I think. Any font that shows little to no difference between I and l should be trashed. Myanmar Text Regular is my favorite font that I use for everything when adding text to an image in photoshop. Its my favorite font.

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I'm sorry... this is irking me, though... but WINDOWS 10 HAS ISSUES! AND WE'RE FOCUSING ON A TYPEFACE THAT'S ONLY LIKE 512kb OF DATA!!!???

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Wait a damn second...my Teams crashes every ten minutes. Outlook freezes when I try to preview an attachment. Excel gives me a random "There's a problem with your workbook" message, and suddenly I can't copy, paste, or see my cursor. Edge is the equivalent of an AR-15 with the barrel facing backwards. And they're going to change a font?!

 

Goddammit Microsoft.

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1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

Wait a damn second...my Teams crashes every ten minutes. Outlook freezes when I try to preview an attachment. Excel gives me a random "There's a problem with your workbook" message, and suddenly I can't copy, paste, or see my cursor. Edge is the equivalent of an AR-15 with the barrel facing backwards. And they're going to change a font?!

 

Goddammit Microsoft.

Man, that almost sounds like that buggy Evernote plugin; because that lately has been a source of my woes.

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Can we have an option called "Fonty McFontyface" and have the internet vote on it?

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Grandview looks similar to their latest custom Xbox font, I kinda like it. Tensorite looks basic and has the least character, so that’ll probably win.

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I like Bierstadt and Tenorite. Keeps the same calibri essence with its reserved and basic design.

 

(also because their names are cool, I mean come on!)

 

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On 5/3/2021 at 3:52 AM, SansVarnic said:

I vote for Courier New.  /s

It's funny cause that is one of my favourite fonts

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On 5/1/2021 at 3:09 PM, DrMacintosh said:

I would say everyone should use San Francisco for everything, but its a sans-serif font so lowercase l and capital I have no distinction so its kinda trash for reading passwords. 

You should NEVER EVER have to or be able to read password

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On 5/1/2021 at 1:20 PM, TetraSky said:

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Is it wrong if I can barely even tell any difference between them?

dude its same here, just skeenas s and grandviews and bierstadts M's are different. 

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On 5/3/2021 at 4:34 AM, ARikozuM said:

I'm sorry... this is irking me, though... but WINDOWS 10 HAS ISSUES! AND WE'RE FOCUSING ON A TYPEFACE THAT'S ONLY LIKE 512kb OF DATA!!!???

they're not changing anything in windows.  Like @colonel_mortissays: this vote is just the change which font Word opens with and sits you at your document.  The windows default UI font isn't even Calibri.

 

That being said I like Skeena

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Consolas. At least I would be able to tell the difference.

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On 5/1/2021 at 12:52 PM, givingtnt said:

I'm just glad this isn't an open poll where we'd end up with comic sans..

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3 hours ago, Franck said:

You should NEVER EVER have to or be able to read password

Uhh, you’re wrong because these things called password managers exist. Also IT admin apps that let me reset my users passwords exist. 

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Bier or Tenorite since they don't have the dumb fancy lower case g.

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Bierstadt?
Did anyone point out already that this is German for Beertown? Interestingly enough it also looks the best imo.

 

 

 

 

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