Aptos

Replaced Calibri as the Office default in 2023 after fifteen years, following a public process in which Microsoft commissioned five candidate typefaces and asked people which they preferred. It was originally called Bierstadt, after a Colorado mountain, and was renamed to a California coastal town. Its arrival means documents can now be dated by their default typeface with reasonable confidence.

The facts

Designed by

Steve Matteson

Released

2023

Classification

Sans-serif

What it signals now

A Word document written after 2023.

Where you have seen it

• Microsoft Office's default, replacing Calibri

This page describes the typeface rather than showing it. Displaying a specimen requires a licensed font file and almost none of these may be redistributed, so the descriptions name the letters to look at instead.