It's still not Comic Sans, which was first inspired by 'MS Bob' (or more properly, as Verity Stob might insist, 'Microsoft Robert')
who hilariously seethed:"Look I understand if you have a staff shortage and you have to let people know [about it] at your Coffee 1 coffee shop, so you make a sign. But it would be well worth the effort to change from the default font in Word or Publisher to Arial."last year it had over 345 million paid seats on Office 365, and many of those users wouldn't think to bother to change the default 11-point Calibri text .
Microsoft's Daniels said in the post that Aptos would start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users from yesterday, adding:"And, over the next few months, it will roll out to be the default for all our customers." Commenters across the media spectrum were mostly positive on the change, although some bemoaned that there were no updates to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, with @kisaragi_hiuThe losers? The other contenders were Tenorite, Skeena, Grandview, Seaford … but they'll stay on the drop-down menu, along with Calibri and good old Arial., who also designed Segoe, the font of the Windows 11 system UI, as well as all of Windows' TrueType core fonts.
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