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The passion of the font choice
When change occurs solely for the sake of change, my natural reaction is to resist.
Which is how I categorize the news that Microsoft is changing its default font.
Fonts matter, both because I am a writer and because I review documents for a living.
There are a whole lot of people, it seems, who either can’t see or don’t care about fonts.
A paragraph or a whole page with multiple fonts makes my eyes hurt. It’s a problem.
Times New Roman may be boring, but it does the job reliably. Arial for when I want something a little more rounded. Helvetica is also lovely.
It was only recently that I’ve (reluctantly) accepted Calibri. It took a long time.
Now Calibri is out and Aptos, which started life called Bierstadt, is the default.
I don’t like it.
I might like it someday. Probably right about the time it changes again.
