No, I’d have to use Word to notice.
LibreOffice is pretty fantastic. And I always know where my files are being saved.
It 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.
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.
I fucking hate Aptos. It makes my work emails look “quirky” and that is NOT what is needed.
As a type nerd, I’m slightly mollified. I’ve had to spend the last 17 years pretending Calibri is a respectable font and not Comic Sans with a suit and tie
As someone with mild dyslexia, that’s why I liked Calibri so much
I’m not an office user but that font looks good to me.
Arial is an old fashioned (designed for paper) font and not even a good one, while Calibri is just a good implementation of the same style of font. Aptos is properly modern with nice wide characters and sensible letter spacing, definitely glad they’ve made the switch.
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 …
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.
https://office-watch.com/2023/aptos-calibri-comparison/
Slidey thing to compare <3
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!
Almost feels like it’s more about kerning than actual character changes. Though I do prefer the symbols of calibri.
The kerning is absolutely awful.
Just look at the “cr” in “hovercraft”.
Or the “zy” in “lazy”.
Or the “rtz” in “quartz”.
Or “sph” in “sphinx”.I get that kerning is hard, but the inconsistencies in Aptos actually make it harder to read, despite the glyphs being wider and more distinct.
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’ll stick to Linux Libertine G.
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 😩
Subtle? It was immediately noticeable when I wrote my first email after it updated.
I like that they added serifs to lower case l’s. It makes them easier to differentiate between upper case It’s. The lower case E’s look silly.
The new Outlook font is AMAZING
There is no world where the words “New Outlook” and “Amazing” belong together.
I 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.
