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TeMPOraL on July 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri

Calibri was a big deal when introduced because, along with the other fonts in that cohort[0] (like Consolas), it was optimized for subpixel rendering (known on Windows as ClearType), which was a new thing too, and made huge difference in quality and comfort of reading text on flat panel displays. It was a good, practical reason to create new set of default fonts.

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[0] - See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#ClearType_Font_Colle...

whoopdedo on July 14, 2023 [–]

I always liked that they all began with 'C'. Made it easy to remember which were the default fonts that would be available on any Windows system.

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