---
title: "When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?"
description: "Aptos replaced Calibri, 2023. What happened, why it has not happened since, and whether it plausibly could again."
url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/office-default-font/
site: "At One Place"
---

# 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.

## Technology that stopped

| Question | When |
| --- | --- |
| When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? | 31 January 2023 |
| When was the last VCR manufactured? | July 2016 |
| When was the last telegram sent? | 15 July 2013 |
| When did the last typewriter factory close? | 2011 |
| When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed? | 30 December 2010 |
| When did analogue television end in the United States? | 12 June 2009 |
| When did Concorde last fly? | 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003 |

> This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.

## 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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