The company liked Calibri enough to make it the default for Windows Vista in 2007. Back Basic Fixed width Sans serif Serif Various Bitmap Pixelated Dingbats Alien Ancient Animals Art Asian Barcode Braille Cartoon Esoteric Fantastic Foods Games Horror Human Military Nature Runes. The font comes in multiple weights ranging from hairline to black and includes 400 glyphs. It’s especially suitable for crafting website header titles, poster titles, and even modern logos. That changed in 2000 with Microsoft’s new ClearType technology, which optimized the resolution on LCD screens and made fonts like de Groot’s easier to read. Use this thick and bold serif font to design creative titles and headings for your projects. “I had some sketches already, so I adapted those and added these rounded corners to get some design feeling in it.” For a long time, computer displays lacked the pixel density to faithfully render all fonts rounded corners appeared not as an arch but a stair. “I designed it in quite a hurry,” he says. “It’s a relief,” he says.ĭe Groot created Calibri in the early 2000s, as part of a collection of fonts for enhanced screen reading. It’s the end of an era, but Calibri’s designer, Lucas de Groot, has no qualms about letting his typeface rest for a bit.
Actually, five of them: Microsoft announced that it plans to replace Calibri as the default font with one of five new typefaces it released this week. But now there’s a new sans serif in town. It has appeared countless times in unformatted Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets, a typographical reprieve for the decision-paralyzed. For almost 15 years, Calibri has reigned as the default and therefore dominant font choice for Microsoft systems.
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