Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Friday, July 21, 2006

Sloppy: Calibri @ 100%

Friday, July 21, 2006

7:36 AM

Microsoft's new font, Calibri, is good-looking, but not at the default size and resolution it's provided in Office 2007. Look at the c-e boundary:

Heck, it looks better at 98%:

But it looks its best at higher-resolutions (124%):

I don't know if this is the fault of the font, the display subsystem, or the application, but it's sloppy.

 

Created with Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (Beta)
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