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hardypart@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos

www.theverge.com

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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos

www.theverge.com

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It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
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    How is a new font “more inclusive”? This word has been co-opted by corpo drones and has lost its meaning.

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      It’s little things like better disambiguation between uppercase i and lowercase L.

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        and the letters qpdb are different? (for dyslexic people)

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          qpdb are completely symmetrical in Bierstadt, so no.

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      It’s like ‘gaslighting’ or ‘reboot’, or various others: it gains a little traction then everyone finds an excuse to use it, appropriate or not.

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      The only meaning I could imagine as useful is to include more different scripts from the Unicode set.

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