Hey Folks!

We’ve been playing and discussing Calibri, Aptos ( Bierstadt ), Grandview, Seaford, Tenorite and Skeena over on Tildes and I figured you folks would enjoy clicking around and seeing what the differences between them actually are.

I wrote the article, so let me know if there’s something you’d like to see as well :D

Cheers !

  • I don’t mind Calibri, but Aptos does look like an improvement. I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L… it has always annoyed me how that and uppercase I look exactly the same in many fonts. It’s one of the reasons why I’m partial to fonts with serifs.

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      but Aptos does look like an improvement

      I think so too! Did you click through the Lorem Ipsum examples? Aptos is much easier on the eyes even in dense paragraphs.

      I particularly like the serif added to the lowercase L

      For the record, my calling those serifs has been a point of contention. To me Aptos feels like a semi-serif, not a sans-serif, although it’s officially one! However, it’s been suggested to me that I should do away with the serif terminology and call them simply stroke terminals!

      Still mulling over this.

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      Oh my god yes! future generations will be shocked that it took us that long to solve that particular typography problem.

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    What are the “display” variants of the new fonts in that article? In the examples, they’re the ones with a * appended. They look much narrower to me (which I like).

    I’m not at my PC right now, so it may just be that there’s an “Aptos Display” font or something 😅

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      What are the “display” variants of the new fonts in that article? They’re called that, at least on Office 365: Aptos Display, Grandview Display, etc.

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      Yes they’re usually called “<fontfamily> Display”. IIRC Display variants are optimized to be used on digital displays (usually on the web), where a lower resolution (72ish DPI) than printing (~300 DPI) is quite common.

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    Still adapting to Calibri … I liked arial because it was usually near the top of the font list so it was easy to find, lol

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      I liked arial

      OK, you’re the only person who has managed to make me angry hehe :)

      Someone actually likes Arial ??!!

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        Aside from using it to make jokes? It’s not bad, a legible sans-serif that renders well on low resolution screens. A lot of discussions about “clean” fonts seem to squabble over minutiae while the important part of being readable seems forgotten.

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    I’m gonna miss the compactness of Calibri. I might have to reduce my font sizes now if I want to use Aptos in my pre-existing spreadsheets.

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      Thank you ! I’m a bit overwhelmed by the positive resonance so far, so now I’m wondering what to write after that will give me the same high haha :)

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      Why is that :D ?

      Not that I disagree with you, as it’s also my favorite, but just wanting to hear your reasons :)

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      Thank you so much, this sort of feedback warms my heart, it really does !

      Feel free to stick around via the Mailinglist or the Fediverse (Y), links are in #whoami !

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    On that paragraph about prominence, what I do notice is that the letters are way more closed, with less noticeable gaps, for example with a letter ‘c’. To those with weaker eyesight, the letters may be seen as an ‘o’. But a great article and I liked the comparisons.

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      Now that you say that, I liked Aptos’ G, but now I dislike it because it’ll likely make things harder for people with poor eyesight.

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    Grandview seemed to do the best in clearly identifying the character 0. Is it an O, 0, I, l, or 1? Even without an example of O clearly visible in the sample text, the shape of 0 was very clear and seems like it should stand apart. Not the only reason to select a font, but it might be important to some.