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Bucky

(53,759 posts)
26. Maybe it's the antiauthoritarian in me
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 12:09 PM
Feb 2013

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.

I've been partial to these two hobbit709 Feb 2013 #1
Had to hunt for headhunter pokerfan Feb 2013 #4
Comic Sans is my favourite. applegrove Feb 2013 #2
So you're the one! pokerfan Feb 2013 #3
Have you googled "Inappropriate use of comic sans"? Bucky Feb 2013 #20
I did after watching the video pokerfan Feb 2013 #29
I don't don't have a favorite but I don't like Arial progressoid Feb 2013 #5
Would not be a good choice for beginning readers pokerfan Feb 2013 #8
I don't know why but Verdana Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #6
I used Verdana when I edited a newsletter LeftInTX Feb 2013 #7
Love Courier New...... becca da bakkah Feb 2013 #9
Funny thing about TNR pokerfan Feb 2013 #13
If you're space cramped, try Arial Narrow. I think it has more character than Arial. Bucky Feb 2013 #21
Times New Roman and Trebuchet and Tahoma Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #10
I like Trebuchet, but I hate its ampersand Bucky Feb 2013 #28
I never noticed. NOW you'll make me obsessive compulsive about those signs! I'll have to change them Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #34
Centaur! kentauros Feb 2013 #11
As a former typographer, I prefer Helvetica and Times New Roman RebelOne Feb 2013 #12
I use Ariel for most communications at work. femmocrat Feb 2013 #14
These guys do some nice work... hunter Feb 2013 #15
Arial. harmonicon Feb 2013 #16
Calibri for everything! N/t Agschmid Feb 2013 #17
Maybe it's the antiauthoritarian in me Bucky Feb 2013 #26
One font to rule them all... pokerfan Feb 2013 #30
Palatino .nt quadrature Feb 2013 #18
Comic Sans, Ariel, and Times New Roman in that order. Gorp Feb 2013 #19
The uproar about Comic Sans is ridiculous. Is there no place for a lighthearted font? Arugula Latte Feb 2013 #22
It's the poor quality of the spacing. Bucky Feb 2013 #25
Ok... Xyzse Feb 2013 #23
Put me in the Verdana/Tahoma school. Bucky Feb 2013 #24
Times New Roman. (nt) Paladin Feb 2013 #27
Calibri tabbycat31 Feb 2013 #31
Some years ago, I forbade the use of Comic in my Dept. LanternWaste Feb 2013 #32
I like them all Auggie Feb 2013 #33
Times Lionel Mandrake Feb 2013 #35
I don't know about a favorite font Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #36
It's either Caslon or Slimbach jmowreader Feb 2013 #37
Courier and OCR Paulie Feb 2013 #38
Times New Roman sakabatou Feb 2013 #39
Latvian orthodox Puzzler Feb 2013 #40
I write exclusively in WingDings, baby! Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #41
Helvetica ... surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #42
The one under the display font (hed) Spike89 Feb 2013 #43
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