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They made the asterisk look more like a butthole.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

(Technically Aptos and Calibri are typefaces, while a “font” refers to a particular face or size, like italics or boldface.

“They were big, blocky letters, and they called them ‘grotesque.’ They were bold and easily legible from far.” At the time, a sans serif was rarely used for more than one or two words or a single sentence.

It helped that most people thought sans serifs looked better on a computer, which was rapidly becoming the writing instrument of choice worldwide.

The designer, Steve Matteson, “brought a little more — he called it ‘imperfections’: little bits of change that are slightly different from a typical sans serif font,” Mr. Friedman added.

“It’s both quirky and creates a more natural feel that brings in some of the serif font ‘je ne sais quoi’ to it,” he added.

When The New York Times added color to its print front page in 1997, some people complained that the staid paper had become unnecessarily flashy, though such gripes faded quickly as readers grew used to the change.

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I was in the middle of a dozen spreadsheets when I hit bold and formatted a column as currency, and fuck, I was not ready. I reset calibri as my default but who knows if it'll even stick, corpo has my desktop locked down so hard 😩

Not at my work yet (and I don't use Windows much outside of there).

Also I really didn't like Calibri as a default since MS Office 2007. Arial is my go-to of the Microsoft fonts these days.

Aptos seems fine but I don't really care for it in particular since it's proprietary.

They finally fix I and l can finally differentiate them.

I'll stick to Linux Libertine G.

The new Outlook font is AMAZING