I get that you don't want court summonses issued in Comic Sans, but caring about details like the above sounds like football fans seriously debating the effect of the colour of the laces their favourite player uses, like it makes a difference
Would it really, though?
I mean... quite a lot of stuff already does look terrible, but it doesn't *matter*. And when you're talking about the barely-perceptible difference between e.g. Helvetica and Arial, or Calibri and Aptos, all the more so.
Times New Roman (which I loathe and which should burn in hell) is a serif font. Arial (which I don’t like much either) is sans-serif so not a suitable replacement.
Calibri though.. I don’t hate? Haven’t used latest Windows so can’t comment on the new font.
Times New Roman was hot ... in the century before last. Arial is a poor man's Helvetica. Garamond (I know nobody asked) has become passé. And Calibri? A much-maligned font that really doesn't deserve the flak it takes. There are many worse sans serif fonts out there. It's just a bit too condensed.
There's a VERY underrated one out there. I (humblebrag) wrote a proper length book and then had to work out what font was best for it. Cambrian was *absolutely* perfec - like a 21st Century TNR. Thank you for not bringing C**** S*** into it.
Apple and U2 should have committed to the bit, and to this day, every new product has a U2 album installed on it. It could hide in a new place every time, behind a help menu, a Clippy style thing "you appear to not be listening to a U2 album, would you like to listen to a U2 album?"
Every year, on Bono's birthday, all Apple products will only play U2, no matter what album you choose.
After a few years, lesser tech firms go full cargo cult, so that every new product with multimedia playback does the same.
People complained about that..but I'm still getting recommendations for Jeffrey Archer books from Google because they put one of his books in my library without asking when I bought a Nexus 7 over a decade ago.
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I mean... quite a lot of stuff already does look terrible, but it doesn't *matter*. And when you're talking about the barely-perceptible difference between e.g. Helvetica and Arial, or Calibri and Aptos, all the more so.
The difference being grammar actually matters.
Calibri though.. I don’t hate? Haven’t used latest Windows so can’t comment on the new font.
I still have mad love for Crimson Text, even though my go-to serif font now is a modern take on an Eric Gill classic: Joanna Nova.
After a few years, lesser tech firms go full cargo cult, so that every new product with multimedia playback does the same.