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As one of the very few moon dwellers who finds Calibri fucking blinding to read, I hate this. Times New Roman all day every day, or any of Arial/Tahoma/Verdana for sans serif.

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I spent probably half an hour figuring out how to make my Google Docs default to Times New Roman for any new docs after. It's a good font. Calibri is trash.

Even worse, a widely-used design doc template here uses a title-only font in the body. I was wondering why it's so hard to read, even for a sans serif font, until I noticed that.

I don't understand the love for Times New Roman honestly. Any type of antiqua is better if you ask me.

In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular or roman style (sometimes also called Antiqua)

Let me be more precise: more classicist and less cramped forms of antiqua. Palatino, Garamond are the first two that come to my mind.

It was the default font in Word for a very long time.

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