🖋 A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font
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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 !

  •  Edlennion   ( @Edlennion@feddit.uk ) 
    5•1 year ago

    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 😅

      •  jlow (he/him)   ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 
        3•1 year ago

        From what I know display font variants are intended for short text, so book titles movie posters, maybe headings but not body text. They usually bolder with more flourishes and look best if they’re big on the page but might not be very readable in long, small formats.

    •  Backslash   ( @Backslash@feddit.de ) 
      3•1 year ago

      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.