Given Matteson's history with Microsoft, choosing Aptos over the others feels like the safest possible choice. The main flavor of Aptos is a sans-serif font—described by Matteson as "Helvetica ...

Last year, Microsoft announced that it was changing its Microsoft Word default font from Calibri to a new sans-serif font known as Aptos. Calibri had a nearly 20-year run. It succeeded Times New ...

Bierstadt was then renamed Aptos. Also: Microsoft Dev Box brings cloud-based development to the public Aptos is a minimalistic, sans-serif font with clean lines, simple letterforms with ...

“Sans serif fonts are pretty rectilinear ... to try to sneak in a little bit of humanity,” Mr. Matteson said in a Microsoft statement about the change. “I did that by adding a little ...

visually, at least. After 15 years, Microsoft is replacing the default font in 365 and Office apps, Calibri, with something new: Aptos. It may look like a simple sans-serif font (and it is in ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is replacing its Calibri default font with Aptos, a new ...

According to Microsoft, Aptos is a “humanist sans-serif font” that is more “modern, yet approachable” and “professional, but not too formal.” Join GizChina on Telegram Steve Matteson ...

Microsoft Office 365’s default font is no longer Calibri. Instead, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel users on TikTok are noticing (or will soon enough) their trusted sans-serif typeface is ...

One reason Calibri is so popular is that it’s a sans-serif font designed to render well on screens. And as Microsoft’s long-term default font, Calibri is familiar and comfortable to readers ...