![]() “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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