Calibri (nonfiction)
Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]
Calibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista.[6] All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on liquid-crystal display monitors.[citation needed] The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.
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- Calibri @ Wikipedia
- tate Department to switch from "woke" default Microsoft font to old British newspaper typeface @ Boing Boing (10 December 2025)
- Calibri, a modern sans-serif typeface designed to be readable on screen and page alike, was commissioned by Microsoft and made the Office suite default in 2006. Secretary of State Marco Rubio finds it too woke and has ordered diplomats to use the previous default: Times New Roman, designed for British newspaper The Times in 1931.
- The underlying problem, for Rubio and the Trump administration, is that Calibri was crafted to be more easily read by people with vision impairments and dyslexia, and is therefore is a "diversity, equity and inclusion" measure to be gotten rid of. Its use was formally standardized at the State Department under the previous administration of Joe Biden.
- Mr. Rubio's directive to all diplomatic posts around the world blamed "radical" diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs for what he said was a misguided and ineffective switch from the serif typeface Times New Roman to sans serif Calibri in official department paperwork.
- The problem with Times New Roman was that it was intended for newsprint, where the ink will spread into the fibers, thickening the letterforms. On smooth paper, its letterforms are thin and spindly. On older screens, pixelation mangles them entirely. If you wanted to switch to an old-fashioned, formal-looking serif typeface because you wanted to Make Typography Great Again, there are many better options than Times New Roman. Microsoft provided Constantia with Calibri. Sometimes, it's important to remember that these guys are just plain stupid.
