silence7Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?
No, I’d have to use Word to notice.
Admiral PatrickLibreOffice is pretty fantastic. And I always know where my files are being saved.
It’s so confusing that you can’t delete a document that you’re looking at, but you can rename it. Identifying documents in OneDrive and then deleting them is tedious.
Don’t get me started on OneDrive. I have rants.
JackFrostNColaIt didnt just affect MS Word, at least the programs i use (outlook & excel) changed, and i assume the whole MS office suite.
What a coincidence, I don’t use any of that software.
RobotToasterI’ll stick to Linux Libertine G.
flyosI love Linux Libertine. An excellent font for professional looking documents!
Doesn’t look super subtle to me. Personally (besides Apple defaults, which are great too), I tend to use Roboto.
I don’t use anything Microsoft so I obviously don’t care, but I think just changing it on existing documents is kind of weird, and people are perfectly justified being annoyed by that. Change it going forward. Don’t alter stuff people already did.
CherenkovBlueI fucking hate Aptos. It makes my work emails look “quirky” and that is NOT what is needed.
I’m not an office user but that font looks good to me.
Calibri and Arial before that are both really unusual fonts.
So let me get this straight. It replaces Calibri, but nowhere on the page is a visual comparison of the two.
It seems like something you’d put right at the top.
office-watch.com/2023/aptos-calibri-comparison/
Slidey thing to compare <3
XtallllI hate the “h” in the new font.
I agree with you and I also hate lowercase e
BlueÆtherf and r are doing me
Love the feel of the new font, the kerning is nice, but it really does have some whack letters. I do really love the lowercase L, I wrote love like that.
astrskAt least the ! and @ are much cleaner and not italic.
For me it’s the “l”.
Dark ArcYeah the h is a bit too short…
I’m really not super font sensitive though, if they weren’t right next to each other I wouldn’t notice
I was never a fan of Calibri but the new font looks way too Arial-like for my taste.
agent_flounderThe hero we need! Ty!
I’m not entirely sure why but Calibri has always mildly annoyed me. Maybe because it was the new default at one point and I preferred something else. Or maybe because I felt that the default font size should be 10 or 12 points not…11 (pffft huff) Maybe it was just misplaced resentment for having to use Office products (at work). The new one has kind of a fun look, though. Maybe I will enjoy it.
I recall when Times New Roman was default. Calibri felt strange at first.
went back and forth like at the optometrist and i prefer calibri, feels denserc which i like
Almost feels like it’s more about kerning than actual character changes. Though I do prefer the symbols of calibri.
Ehhh I don’t like the new one. Calibri’s better. I wish it had a better g though.
The letters are more pleasant, but my god, that kerning is absolutely awful. It’s horribly inconsistent, and some combinations of letters are spaced apart by half the size of an entire space, while others have barely any spacing.
For as bad as calibri is, at least it was easy to tell words apart.
See? That’s what the original page should’ve had!
Calibri has always looked horrible imho but Aptos looks like a return to good old Arial.
BunnyluxThe new Outlook font is AMAZING
Subtle? It was immediately noticeable when I wrote my first email after it updated.
I seem to recall changing the default font back to calibri and not thinking much of it.
The end result, Aptos, is Microsoft’s trademarked intellectual property.
Well, there it is.
This is much the same as Calibri, Arial and other bundled fonts. Even Times New Roman is meant to be licensed for commercial work.
Right, but they’ve changed the default from one that’s been around for about 15 years and for which there are numerous open source alternatives to a new one.
The open source fonts will catch up eventually but really all this is about is them refreshing their proprietary shit for 365, and making it cloud based to boot.
I would like to represent those of us who use Word everyday and either kinda like it, or just don’t give a shieeeet
rhythmisaprancerI have to use outlook for work, but we have accessibility guidelines regarding font size and maybe even font. I'm not sure I have seen this. I sent and received several emails today. I also don't like being in the office and maybe wouldn't have noticed anyway.
Large corporate environments often have a team which reviews updates and may defer them from being rolled out.
That makes sense. I work for a government entity. There are many complications. But no Windows 12 yet, which I view as a bonus.
Oh no now I feel old. My first thought was this would be about the switch from Times New Roman to Calibri…
17 years ago …
As a type nerd, I’m slightly mollified. I’ve had to spend the last 17 years pretending like Calibri is a respectable font and not Comic Sans with a suit and tie
Fuck it I’m going back to Times New Roman.
wabafeeThey finally fix I and l can finally differentiate them.
Holy shit Aptos is so much better
They made the asterisk look more like a butthole.
Not at my work yet (and I don’t use Windows much outside of there).
Also I really didn’t like Calibri as a default since MS Office 2007. Arial is my go-to of the Microsoft fonts these days.
Aptos seems fine but I don’t really care for it in particular since it’s proprietary.
Still using Office 2003. No changes and working just fine.
I was in the middle of a dozen spreadsheets when I hit bold and formatted a column as currency, and fuck, I was not ready.
I reset calibri as my default but who knows if it’ll even stick, corpo has my desktop locked down so hard 😩