Given Matteson's history with Microsoft, choosing Aptos over the others feels like the safest possible choice. The main flavor of Aptos is a sans-serif font—described by Matteson as "Helvetica ...

Other fonts, however, muddle these identifying characteristics, so causing confusion. Since 2007, Microsoft has opted for sans serif fonts (typefaces without short strokes attached to the ends of ...

Most of us were blissfully offline back then, so Microsoft had devised a program ... a long manifesto “to ban the use of the font Comic Sans and preserve the quality and traditions of typography.” ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new ...

Calibri is not always a popular choice, but up until recently it was the default font used in Word, so its universal origins ...

The problem with Comic Sans is that it was too good at being ... When it was eventually included as a default font in Microsoft Words, plebs by the thousands started choosing it for everything ...

Microsoft Office 365’s default font is no longer Calibri. Instead, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel users on TikTok are noticing (or will soon enough) their trusted sans-serif typeface is ...

“Sans serif fonts are pretty rectilinear ... to try to sneak in a little bit of humanity,” Mr. Matteson said in a Microsoft statement about the change. “I did that by adding a little ...

According to Microsoft, Aptos is a “humanist sans-serif font” that is more “modern, yet approachable” and “professional, but not too formal.” Join GizChina on Telegram Steve Matteson ...

visually, at least. After 15 years, Microsoft is replacing the default font in 365 and Office apps, Calibri, with something new: Aptos. It may look like a simple sans-serif font (and it is in ...

This is a lot to say about what is essentially a pretty nice-looking sans serif ... and the double stacked g." Microsoft goes on to talk about what a good job the font does of being readable ...