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I have the same feeling about Calibri. When someone just picks whatever font came with MS Word/PowerPoint, it just makes me judge all the other decisions that they made in the project.

Maybe it's just me, but it genuinely disgusts me to see Calibri because it's not crispt and has some of the worst curvatures I've seen on a font.

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Calibri has a reasonably large character set and is relatively "compact" in terms of optical size/metric. Not trying to say it's the best typeface for any given application but if you want something metric compatible, with a large character set, your options are somewhat limited (or have been until relatively recently). Many typefaces that are functionally similar in character representation, etc. are more open and take up more space.

Interesting - I feel that way about Times new Roman, and Tahoma (the previous 2 default Word fonts), but I find Calibri quite pleasant!

Out of curiousity, what are sensible basic fonts for documents that you would recommend instead? (Something meant to be read for 1-6 pages of content, not presented in powerpoint slides)

Intersting - I used to feel that way about Times New Roman too, but gradually grown to like it for its compatcness.

I tyically use LateX fonts for formal documents:

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-to-make-word-documents-l...

For less formal documents, I tent to use Helvetica/Inter/Calisto MT/Constantia and a bunch of others that I collected over the years.

It's the default typeface for Office products since the 2007 release. So they just didn't pick anything better

Calibri was part of a family of "C" fonts released together as the ClearType Font Collection.

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/clear-...

- https://typographica.org/on-typography/microsofts-cleartype-...

I heard it's going to change in the next release (or maybe it did already).

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