RIP Calibri. All hail Aptos, our new font overlord.

[[FnG]magnolia]

I don't care for it.

 

[jaybee]

I see they fixed the lower case "L" to now not look like an uppercase "I" and more different between them and number 1 which is much better. Same for zero vs "O" I think.

 

[Feek]

8 no longer looks like the infinity symbol on its side.

 

[Lightnix]

Oh no, change.

That said I did quite like calibri at the time, although I guess it is getting a little dated.

 

[FoxEye]

Lowercase L =/= I is an improvement. Such a basic thing that fonts get wrong.

e: beaten!

 

[Feek]

The dots on the i and j are actually round!

 

[Diddums]

hahaha nerds

 

[jpaul]

the lower case l's an aberration, breaks up the aesthetic flow of text, don't want that for code development , droid for ever.
maybe if you have downsized fonts to minsiscule size l helps eg. phones, but android has different fonts.

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[Monkeynut]

Nothing better than firing up The Sims 1 and seeing the glorious Comic Sans.

 

[Lopéz]

It’s all about Trebuchet MS

K

I didn't need to open this thread to know you would have posted this.

I don't think that enough people notice that most computer fonts refuse to use the small case a as you would handwrite it.

I handwrite "a" like most computer fonts.


As for Aptos, it's no Helvetica or Proxima Nova, but it will do.

 

[Feek]

Did the designer just get bored between Windows 8 and Windows 10?

 

[Conscript]

I've made it my mission in life to eradicate Calibri.

Helvetica gang rise up!

 

[throwaway4372]

I see they fixed the lower case "L" to now not look like an uppercase "I" and more different between them and number 1 which is much better. Same for zero vs "O" I think.

My pet peeve is fonts which connect the dot above the i with the stem below it.
So not only do l I | ¦ look the same, but i does too.

 

[RxR]

I still much prefer Times Roman

 

[Rimsy]

I think we need to change all the fonts on the forum to comic sans.

Or you could just go into speakers corner and squint.

 

[Peter75]

I still much prefer Times Roman

Pipe down Grandad.

 

[Cromulent]

I like it, but then I liked Calibre as well.

Now if someone could suggest a good font for programming on the Mac I would appreciate it. I just use the default one in Visual Studio Code.

 

[james.miller]

I think we need to change all the fonts on the forum to comic sans.

EH?

 

[LiE]

EH?

Ah comic sans, the Geocities font of choice.

 

[LiE]

Back from Annual leave today, Aptos has now been set as my default font on the Outlook beta build.