Microsoft is changing its default font, the one used from the beginning in Microsoft 365 apps, including the Office apps that many people use every day, like Word, and the company wants users to choose their preferred option from five options. As detailed in a Microsoft 365 blog post, the five options are: Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, and Grandview. While not a formal vote as such, the software giant encourages people to take to social media (by linking the Microsoft 365 Twitter account) and make their voices heard. So if you have an opinion on surveillance options and feel the need to get involved, let us know what you think... As you probably know, Calibri is Microsoft's default font of choice, and its reign has been going on since 2007 (before that was that old chestnut Times New Roman). Whichever font is ultimately chosen as Calibri's successor as the new default, all five of the new efforts will be available in Office apps, and are indeed present now. Step into Office 365 and you can see and use fonts to experience them in all their glory.
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The blog post details the design philosophy behind each of the five different fonts, which “cover the various sans-serif styles: humanist, geometric, Swiss, and industrial.” In short, Tenorite is a very rounded, wide and sharp font, Bierstadt is sharp and 'mechanical', Skeena looks clean and has distinctive thicker and thinner lines for different parts of the letters, Seaford offers "softly organic and asymmetrical shapes." ", with Grandview looking pretty, well, grand and built around being very readable and generally stands out. We were drawn to Skeena's clear and distinctive look, at least in initial impressions. So here's our vote, Microsoft, if you're reading...