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| creationdate = 2002–2005| releasedate = 2007Lucas de Groot>Luc(as) de Groot (Standard Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew); Mamoun Sakkal (Arabic); Ruben Tarumian (Armenian and Georgian)CALIBRI FONT FAMILY >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.MICROSOFT.COM/EN-US/TYPOGRAPHY/FONT-LIST/CALIBRI ACCESS-DATE=8 OCTOBER 2021, | foundry = Microsoft| license = ProprietaryCarlito (typeface)>Carlito}Calibri ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|iː|b|r|i|}}) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista.WEB, Phinney, Thomas, Calibri reached the general public on January 30, 2007, with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista on that date.,weblink Quora, 11 July 2017, WEB, Berry, John D., De Groot, Lucas, Case Study: Microsoft ClearType,weblink Lucasfonts, 11 July 2017, In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in WordWEB, Microsoft typography: Calibri,weblink Microsoft, 10 December 2011, and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character". In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.NEWS, Mather, Victor, 28 February 2024, Microsoft Word's Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?,weblink live,weblink 29 February 2024, 11 March 2024, The New York Times, WEB, A change of typeface: Microsoft's new default font has arrived,weblink 2024-03-11, Microsoft Design, en, Calibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista.WEB, The Microsoft ClearType Font Collection,weblink Microsoft Typography, Microsoft, 31 August 2017, All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on liquid-crystal display monitors.WEB, Hudson, John, Comments on Typophile thread,weblink Typophile, 28 September 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141030072541weblink">weblink 30 October 2014, dead, The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.

Characteristics

Calibri features subtly rounded stems and corners that are visible at larger sizes.WEB, Van Wagener, Anne, The Next Big Thing in Online Type,weblink Poynter Online, 31 August 2017, bot: unknown,weblink 4 June 2006, Its sloped form is a "true italic" with handwriting influences,WEB, Levien, Raph, Raph Levien, Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection: A Fair and Balanced Review,weblink Typographica, 24 November 2014, which are seen in many modern sans-serif typefaces.The typeface includes characters from Latin, Latin extended, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts. Calibri makes extensive use of sophisticated OpenType formatting; it features a range of ligatures as well as lining and text figures, indices (numbers enclosed by circles) up to 20, and an alternate f and g (shown in sample) accessible by enabling the fourth and fifth stylistic sets.WEB, Batchelor, Lee, Opentype Features in Microsoft Word,weblink Leeviathan, 23 October 2012, 7 July 2015, WEB, Package details: OpenType features,weblink LucasFonts, 2 October 2020, Some features in Calibri remain unsupported by Office, including true small caps, all-caps spacing, superscript and subscript glyphs and the ability to create arbitrary fractions; these may be accessed using programs such as Adobe InDesign.One potential source of confusion in Calibri is a visible homoglyph, a pair of easily confused characters: the lowercase letter L and the uppercase letter i (l and I) of the Latin script are effectively indistinguishable; this is true of many other common fonts, however.The design has similarities to de Groot's much more extensive TheSans family (a humanist font) and shares similarities with humanist fonts, although this has straight ends rather than rounding.BOOK, Middendorp, Jan, Dutch Type, 2004, 010, Rotterdam, 219–227, The Two Sides of Luc(as) de Groot, De Groot has also said in 2016 that he would like if possible to add Bulgarian alphabet variant letterforms at a later date.WEB, Knecht, Sonja, European Cyrillics,weblink TXET, 9 October 2016, 31 August 2017,

Availability

(File:Calibri carlito comparison.png|thumb|A comparison between Calibri and Carlito in some of the more different glyphs)Calibri was the default typeface of Microsoft Office and much other Microsoft software, replacing the previously used Times New Roman. Joe Friend, a program manager on Word for Office 2007's release, explained that the decision to switch to Calibri was caused by a desire to make the default font one optimised towards onscreen display: "We believed that more and more documents would never be printed but would solely be consumed on a digital device", and to achieve a "modern look".WEB, Friend, Joe, Why did Microsoft change the default font to Calibri?,weblink Quora, 25 April 2019, Because of the long development of Windows Vista, Calibri's development – from 2002 to 2005 – occurred several years before the release of that OS. It was first presented in a 2005 beta of Windows Vista, then codenamed Longhorn, and first became available for use with the Beta 2 version of Office 2007, released on 23 May 2006.WEB, Mondok, Matt, Office 2007 Beta 2 released for the masses, Ars Technica, 23 May 2006, 18 July 2017,weblink Calibri and the rest of the ClearType Font Collection were finally released to the general public on 30 January 2007, since when it has been released with most Microsoft software environments.Calibri is also distributed with Excel Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer,WEB,weblink Download Excel Viewer from Official Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft, WEB,weblink Download PowerPoint Viewer from Official Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft, the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Windows,WEB,weblink Download Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats from Official Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft, 19 February 2013, 29 April 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180429085200weblink">weblink dead, and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.WEB,weblink Download Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1 from Official Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft, 19 February 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130505191454weblink">weblink 5 May 2013, dead, For use in other operating systems and web apps, a license may be obtained from Ascender Corporation and its parent company Monotype Imaging.WEB, Calibri,weblink MyFonts, Monotype Imaging/Ascender Corporation, 30 August 2017, The Calibri Light font was introduced in Windows 8 and was retrospectively added to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of a software update. Starting with Microsoft Office 2013, Calibri Light is the default font for PowerPoint presentations and Word headings.WEB, An update is available to add the Calibri Light and Calibri Light Italic fonts to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2,weblink Microsoft Support, Microsoft, 31 August 2017, In 2013, Google released a freely-licensed font called Carlito, which is metric-compatible to Calibri, as part of ChromeOS.WEB,weblink A thank you to Google from Desktop Linux, GNOME blog, 10 October 2013, Carlito's metric-compatibility ensures ChromeOS users can correctly display and print a document designed in Calibri without disrupting its layout. Carlito's glyph shapes are based on the prior open-source typeface Lato.WEB, carlito – Support for Carlito sans-serif fonts,weblink CTAN, 22 October 2018, On 13 July 2023, Microsoft announced that they will switch the default Microsoft 365 font from Calibri to their new font, Aptos.WEB, Warren, Tom, 2023-07-13, Meet Microsoft Office's new default font: Aptos,weblink 2023-07-14, The Verge, en-US, WEB, Design, Microsoft, 2023-07-13, A change of typeface: Microsoft's new default font has arrived,weblink 2023-07-14, Medium, en,

Awards

Calibri won the TDC2 2005 award from the Type Directors Club under the Type System category.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120218110153weblink">TDC2 2005: Winning Entries The Arabic typeface of Calibri won the 2nd Award of GRANSHAN 2016.WEB, 13 June 2017, Competition 2016 – Winners,weblink 12 January 2022, GRANSHAN, en,

In crime and politics

Because of Calibri's position as the default font in Office, many cases have been reported in which documents were shown to be forged thanks to a purported creation date before Calibri was available to the general public.MAGAZINE, Arbes, Ross, Calibri's Scandalous History,weblink The New Yorker, Condé Nast, 24 July 2017, 1 August 2017, WEB, Peters, Diane, The Font Detectives,weblink JSTOR, 15 May 2019, 24 May 2019, WEB, Bright, Peter, Microsoft's fonts catch out another fraudster—this time in Canada,weblink Ars Technica, Condé Nast, 15 January 2019, 21 January 2019, WEB, Phinney, Thomas, Bob Hayes NFL Hall of Fame forgery,weblink Thomas Phinney, 6 February 2009, 29 January 2021, WEB, Taylor, Michael, Font choice exposes fabricated document {{!, Michigan Lawyers Weekly |url=https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2023/03/30/font-choice-exposes-fabricated-document/ |website=Michigan Lawyers Weekly |access-date=13 April 2023 |date=30 March 2023}}In 2017, the font came to public attention as evidence in the Pakistani government-related "Panama Papers" case (also known as Fontgate),WEB,weblink 'Fontgate': Microsoft, Wikipedia and the scandal threatening the Pakistani PM, Sune Engel, Rasmussen, Pádraig, Collins, The Guardian, 13 July 2017, 31 May 2019, in which a document provided by Maryam Nawaz (daughter of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif) supposedly signed in February 2006 was found to be typed up in Calibri.WEB, McKurdy, Euan, Saifi, Sophia, At the center of a corruption case involving the Pakistani Prime Minister is a font,weblink CNN, 13 July 2017, 14 July 2017, NEWS, Clark, Bryan, Microsoft's default font is at the center of a government corruption case,weblink 11 July 2017, The Next Web, 11 July 2017, NEWS, Siddiqui, Zarin, We asked the creator of Calibri to weigh in on the JIT debate,weblink 13 July 2017, Dawn (newspaper), Dawn, 12 July 2017, WEB, Jafar, Ovais, 'Extremely unlikely' Calibri used in Feb 2006 to draft legal document, says font creator,weblink geo.tv, 13 July 2017, 4 August 2017, De Groot said that there was "really zero chance" that the document was genuine.WEB, van de Klundert, Mitchell, 13 July 2017, Het Nederlandse Calibri brengt mogelijk de Pakistaanse premier ten val,weblink 14 July 2017, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, Nl, In January 2023, the United States Department of State retired Times New Roman in favor of Calibri for official communications and documents due to superior readability on a computer screen, and accessibility, since its sans-serif nature would cause fewer problems in the usage of text-to-speech and optical character recognition tools.WEB, Gitlin, Jonathan M., 18 January 2023, Time(s) for a change: State Department picks a new official typeface,weblink 19 January 2023, Ars Technica, en-us, WEB, Coldewey, Devin, 18 January 2023, Font furore as State Department retires Times New Roman for retired Calibri,weblink 19 January 2023, TechCrunch, en-US,

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