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When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?

When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?
2023
Aptos replaced Calibri

Calibri had been the default since Office 2007, when it displaced Times New Roman. The replacement was chosen through a public process in which Microsoft commissioned five candidate typefaces and asked people which they preferred. It means a Word document can now be dated to one of three eras by its default font alone, which has already mattered in at least one forgery case.

What
Aptos replaced Calibri
When
2023
Category
Technology that stopped
Could this change?
Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.

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Common questions

When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?
2023 — Aptos replaced Calibri.
What happened?
Calibri had been the default since Office 2007, when it displaced Times New Roman. The replacement was chosen through a public process in which Microsoft commissioned five candidate typefaces and asked people which they preferred. It means a Word document can now be dated to one of three eras by its default font alone, which has already mattered in at least one forgery case.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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