The age of Times New Roman may be ending with Microsoft’s recent move to employing Calibri as their new word processing default typeface. Times New Roman has become ubiquitous and standard for most but with Calibri being the new default for Word, will other software developers follow suit and will Times New Roman be relegated to the domain of Comic Sans Serif and the dreaded Helvetica? Will the future be sans serif? This typographic issue may be too rich to justify shallow initial speculation but (among other things) the very readability of future documents may be at stake. The choice of Calibri over Times New Roman raises many questions regarding design, tradition, and ergonomics.
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