Microsoft new default font Aptos to succeed Calibri

Microsoft has decided to replace the Calibri font with a new style called Aptos. This will be the default font for all Microsoft‘s productivity applications.

Calibri will be replaced by Aptos as Microsoft’s default font for their productivity apps like Word and PowerPoint. This font has existed back in 2021 under the name Bierstadt.

“Today we begin the final phase of this major change where Aptos will start appearing as the new default font across Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel for hundreds of millions of users,” Si Daniels, principal program manager for Office design at Microsoft, has stated, “And, over the next few months it will roll out to be the default for all our customers.”

This will take place in an update coming soon to Microsoft 365. Alongside this will be a font picker experience, new themes, colors and backgrounds. Should ever users want to change their default font, Microsoft has stated that it is possible in the settings.