Microsoft wants to change the default font in Office and opens a poll to select the favorite
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Calibri has been the font used by Microsoft for its Office applications since 2007, a typeface it now wants to replace and to This has opened a process in which users will choose the one they like the most from a total of five different fonts.
Calibri is a font that has been used by default in the Office suite that replaced Times New Roman in Microsoft Word and Arial in PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel. And now we await a new change.
The user is the one who chooses
To choose the font that Office applications will use by default, Microsoft has commissioned a total of five new fonts among which you must Choose the users who participate in the development by leaving their answers in this link.
The five original custom fonts seeking to replace Calibri as the default, go by the names of Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, seaford, and Grandview .
Tenorite: Created by Erin McLaughlin and Wei Huang, Tenorite is a mix between sans serif and Times New Roman, ideal for reading in small screen sizes.
Bierstadt: Created by by Steve Matteson, Bierstadt is a precise sans serif typeface inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography. A versatile typeface that expresses simplicity and rationality in a highly readable form.
Skeena: Created by by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow, Skeena is a sans serif typeface that features a striking contrast between thick and thin . Skeena is ideal for body text in long documents.
Seaford: Created by Tobias Frere-Jones, Nina Stössinger, and Fred Shallcrass, Seaford is a sans serif typeface inspired by old style typefaces.Its creators say it helps emphasize differences between letters, thus creating more recognizable word forms.
Grandview: Created by de Aaron Bell, Grandview is a sans serif typeface derived from classic German highway and rail signage which is intended to be readable from a distance and in poor condition.
Both the font that is chosen, and the other four that are not, will become part of the font fonts in Office and may be used at any time.
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