Calibri
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Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot and released to the general public, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista.[3][4] In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word[5] 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".[4] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[6][7]
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 |
Date released | 2004 |
License | Proprietary |
Metrically compatible with | Carlito |
Calibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista.[8] 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.[9] The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.[4][10]