New default font - Aptos. Also, a poll. And a question.

I like Aptos far more than Calibri…..

If a font has to have the lowercase ‘a’ with the stupid tail at the top, then at least the Aptos one isn’t as tall as Calibri.
I much prefer the single-storey lowercase ‘a’.

One of my favourite fonts is Century Gothic - I like roundness of it all. Except for the uppercase M with it’s weirdly sloping sides.

So, I used to do calligraphy, so I've learned how to do a double stacked "a" and "g". I will still throw in a double stacked "a" in my handwriting, especially if I am writing fast. I don't do a double stacked "g' too much anymore. It is fun to write though. Maybe a lot of fonts double stack the "a" because it is easier to quickly distinguish from an "o".

ETA - I don't even have the "Aptos" font on my Mac so I don't know what it looks like. I'll have to wait till I open up my office laptop.

so happy someone else is a Segoe fan too, i also like Aviner for many things.

I’ll duck for cover as I admit I’m a fan of Comic Sans! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

At different times of my life (I'm 58) I have changed my printing style. In my 30's I used a two story "a" and a stacked "g". With technology i handwrite / print much less, and it really shows in my inconsistent handwriting.

For generic fonts, my usual go to is Arial and if I can’t have that I pick Helvetica. I prefer round a’s like the ones in JollyGood Sans, but I do love the look of a nice double stacked lower case g even though I never write it that way myself. 

I’m a bit of a font hoarder and I have literally hundreds on each computer that I use for different purposes. Most of the fonts on my HP laptop I use for cutting files. Most of the fonts on my MacBook are used for graphic design/printing. I try to be a little more selective with the ones I have installed on my iPad for storage space reasons, but even on that I have a lot that I use with ProCreate for cookies. I really like piping tall skinny fonts like the Rae Dunn words because they’re easy to do.

Same. The only time that I really pay attention to font is if it is hard to read. That said, I generally pick ariel for font when using my laptop.

I had to use Times for work and that is what I have always used most of the time.

Now I use Georgian in my emails and in italics. It’s easy to read and looks pretty. 🤩

Does anyone remember the pea who took your handwriting and made it into a font? I don’t think I have mine anymore but I loved it for scrapbooking.

OMG I AM NOT CRAZY!
I have been wondering why all the sudden my email font changed and I thought it was something I did! I've been so confused!

I used Comic Sans for a bunch of papers in undergrad - the font kerning meant it took up more space than Times New Roman or Arial, without being super obvious. 🤣

This, of course, only worked in my government major classes, where we also used my beloved Turabian style book. I may have dropped my plans to double major (or at least minor) in history when I had a professor who demanded Times New Roman size 12, 1 inch margins, and 22 lines of text per page (apparently he'd had students who loaded up on citations/footnotes in the past). Too much hassle for me!

Neither of those look like my letters when I write them, so it was confusing when there was discussion of people writing a single stack letter.

On my phone, both of your samples have curved tails above the letter, although one is a little more fancy. I couldn’t see any difference that made one single and the other double.