A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font
A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font
Personal activity log of lessons learned, obscure and not so obscure technical tidbits and even some philosophy rants, which are a by-product of my personal and professional comings and goings.
Hey Folks!
We've been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.
I wrote the article, so let me know if there's something you'd like to see as well :D
Cheers !
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I don't mind Calibri, but Aptos does look like an improvement. I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L... it has always annoyed me how that and uppercase I look exactly the same in many fonts. It's one of the reasons why I'm partial to fonts with serifs.
but Aptos does look like an improvement
I think so too! Did you click through the Lorem Ipsum examples? Aptos is much easier on the eyes even in dense paragraphs.
I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L
For the record, my calling those serifs has been a point of contention. To me Aptos feels like a semi-serif, not a sans-serif, although it's officially one! However, it's been suggested to me that I should do away with the serif terminology and call them simply stroke terminals!
Still mulling over this.
OK, debate solved,
serifs->stroke terminalsOh my god yes! future generations will be shocked that it took us that long to solve that particular problem.