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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite font/typeface? [View all]Bucky
(53,759 posts)26. Maybe it's the antiauthoritarian in me
But I just hate way MicroSoft has foisted Calibri on me in all their damn softwares.
Now everything looks the same. I've had to figure out how to go in and reset the defaults on Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
Microsoft also hasn't figured out that, with screens getting wider, their programs become annoying when they redesign them to eat up vertical space, but leave me with an excess of horizontal space on the sides of my screen. The human eye scans up and down, not back and forth. Blecch. If it comes from Microsoft, I'm honor-bound to hate it.
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If you're space cramped, try Arial Narrow. I think it has more character than Arial.
Bucky
Feb 2013
#21
I never noticed. NOW you'll make me obsessive compulsive about those signs! I'll have to change them
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#34
The uproar about Comic Sans is ridiculous. Is there no place for a lighthearted font?
Arugula Latte
Feb 2013
#22