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by stopbulying 181 days ago
Calibri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri :

> In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years

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> In 2013, Google released a freely-licensed font called Carlito, which is metric-compatible to Calibri, as part of ChromeOS.[20] 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. [21]

Times New Roman > Free alternatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman#Free_alternati...

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CSS has font fallback; so its good practice to include serif, sans, or monospace as the last in the list of fonts to try:

  p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h7, {
    font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times", "Liberation Serif", "Noto Serif", serif
  }
But what about monospace text like source code and when line endings should be preserved; this is the default:

  code, pre {
    font-family: monospace
  }
If a person prepares a document in e.g. OpenOffice with a font that Windows or MacOS don't have (like Liberation Serif or Noto Serif) and saves it as a .doc/.docx, and opens it in MS Word, doesn't it default to Calibri as the font? (Or Aptos since 2023)

IIUC, if you open an OpenOffice .doc/.docx in Word, Word replaces unknown fonts with its default font when you save it?

Do macos, ios, android, and linux have the Times New Roman font? https://www.google.com/search?q=do+macos%2C+ios%2C+android%2...