The font wars have arrived—uninvited, unnecessary, and paid for by the people least able to afford them. This isn't about typefaces. It's about who gets considered—and who will squint in silence. So while the State Department cosplays 1931, this blog pays homage to a font actually built for this century. Here's a deep dive on Atkinson Hyperlegible—the design decisions, the beautiful weirdness, the typographic rule-breaking. One for the type nerds.

> 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]

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