It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
  • glorious_albus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    2 年前

    The US State Department only just directed its employees to use Calibri for memos earlier this year. The State Department had been using Times New Roman instead since 2004.

    Lmao

  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    2 年前

    How is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.

    • hardypart@feddit.deOPEnglish
      16·
      2 年前

      It’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.

        • ShihaliEnglish
          4·
          2 年前

          qpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.

    • tegs_terry@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      It’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.

    • Captain AggravatedEnglish
      56·
      2 年前

      Meanwhile professors still be requiring essays done in Times New Roman, and all actual documents are done in the default because as long as its legible it doesn’t matter.

      Oh except for a court case in 2044 when a lawyer notices “Aha! This document is dated from 2020 but the Aptos font wasn’t introduced until 2023, this document is forged!” Yes I can cite precedent, Your Honor; something similar happened with Callibri, introduced circa 2007.

  • rlspamEnglish
    18·
    2 年前

    Again? I still haven’t gotten over the switchover from Times New Roman to Calibri.

  • dr_doomscroller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 年前

    Wow, all these essential moves like azure ad to entra id and a new default font?

    microsoft has be laying off the wrong people.

    meanwhile, you can’t update powershell through winget.

      • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        It’s honestly one of my favorite all purpose fonts, very clean, but has much more personality than other san-serif fonts like Helvetia or Noto.

        • catastrophicblues@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          It does, but because of that I feel it needs to be used a bit more sparingly. Helvetica (Neue) you can use the entire document; Segoe seems like it works best for headings and such, but maybe I’m wrong and someone does it well.

  • daringdomino3s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    They said it’s part of office 365 changed, does that mean my purchased single-machine license will not be getting a font change?

  • ShihaliEnglish
    3·
    2 年前

    The update hasn’t happened for me yet, so we’ve still got some time to get used to Bierstadt a.k.a. Aptos. It has a curve at the bottom of the lower-case l like Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, and Cascadia Code, but without the top serif.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
      9·
      2 年前

      It also takes up more horizontal space than Calibri. I don’t think I like it.

      Top is Calibri, bottom is Bierstadt: Comparison between Calibri and Bierstadt fonts

      • ShihaliEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        Agreed that it’s wider at the same point size. Not sure if it’s easier or harder to read yet, especially that “a”. Seems a little heavier to counter display technology that makes old fonts so thin (and maybe superthin fonts falling out of fashion?). Probably blends better with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean due to being squarer and having shorter descenders, but I don’t trust my eye.