Moreover, Microsoft is also rolling out a newly designed font picker experience, along with new themes, colours, and backgrounds. Users will still get the option to choose their default font from settings. In addition to this, Calibri along with Times New Roman and Arial “is pre-pinned at the top of the new font menu (web only for now)”. Other four default font contenders- Grandview, Seaford, Skeena, and Tenorite are also available and along with it, Aptos is also available under the Bierstadt name in the drop-down picker. Moreover, it has some subtle changes, such as a distinctive tail for the lowercase l, circular dots for the heads of i’s and j’s, a single-stroked 6, and two piled ellipticals for 8.

Subtle circular squares within the letters’ contours allow higher legibility, especially at small sizes,” as per Si Daniels of Microsoft. It articulates many different languages and tones. “Aptos, made of varying geometric shapes, is bold, well-defined, directive, and constrained. Sans serif fonts, also known as Grotesque or Gothic, are characterized by simple letterforms, even strokes, and high readability. The new default font has been created by Steve Matteson who renamed it from Bierstadt to Aptos “after the unincorporated town Santa Cruz, California, whose widely ranging landscape and climate epitomizes the font’s versatility”.Īptos is a sans serif, which is, inspired by the mid-20th-century Swiss typography. The rollout has started and will be completed in the next few months.

Bierstadt is now known as Aptos.Īptos will now appear as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for millions of users. Based on users’ feedback, Microsoft picked Bierstadt as the default font for Microsoft 365.

Mircosoft rolled out five new fonts- Bierstadt, Grandview, Seaford, Skeena, and Tenorite in 2021. READ MORE Microsoft sacks 10,000 employees: Check CEO Satya Nadella's full letter to employees here

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