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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Humanist[1] |
| Designer(s) | Luc(as) de Groot (Standard Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew); Mamoun Sakkal (Arabic); Ruben Tarumian (Armenian and Georgian)[2] |
| Foundry | Microsoft |
| Date created | 2002–2005 |
| Date released | 2006 |
| License | Proprietary |
| Metrically compatible with | Carlito |
Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word[4] and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[5][6]
Calibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista.[7] All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on liquid-crystal display monitors.[citation needed] The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.[3][8]
- ^ Berry, John D. (2004). Now Read This: the Microsoft ClearType Collection. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Corp.
- ^ "Calibri Font Family". Microsoft. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ a b c Berry, John D.; De Groot, Lucas. "Case Study: Microsoft ClearType". Lucasfonts. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ^ "Microsoft typography: Calibri". Microsoft. Retrieved 10 December 2002.
- ^ Mather, Victor (28 February 2024). "Microsoft Word's Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "A change of typeface: Microsoft's new default font has arrived". Microsoft Design. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "The Microsoft ClearType Font Collection". Microsoft Typography. Microsoft. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
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