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behnamoh 2 days ago

Politics aside, I never liked Calibri, until last year. I think it has a place for small text printed on paper, but other than that, there are far better fonts out there. The non-sharp/round edges/corners and the fact that it looks a bit childish make me not want to use it in anything serious/professional. It's also waaay over-used by people who don't have a taste in design and just select the default font in their PowerPoint/Word files.

tracker1 2 days ago | parent [-]

Calibri is a pretty nice screen font. That said, I would rather see official documents in a non-commercially licensed font face that can be used by any/all OSes and platforms without incumbrances.

KronisLV 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

If they wanted to go back to Times, they could have at least looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

behnamoh 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nah, it's ugly and doesn't exude "professionalism" at all. For that you'd need a serif font, or at least a proper sans serif like Helvetica or SF Pro.

tgma 2 days ago | parent [-]

100% this. There are a lot of sans-serifs that are much more prestigious and timeless.

Being the default in MSOffice also doesn’t help with professionalism as it makes it even more pedestrian.

behnamoh 2 days ago | parent [-]

Exactly! idk why I got downvoted...