Microsoft has announced a change of typeface and, in a self-aggrandising open letter addressed to "every human on earth [sic] that’s ever typed text", says the default font of 15 years, Calibri, is to be replaced with the newly created font Aptos. The company says this is "the perfect font for higher resolution screens" and the choice was made following "impassioned feedback" from users on five new fonts it had commissioned.
The five fonts were named Bierstadt, Grandview, Seaford, Skeena, and Tenorite. Bierstadt was chosen but has been renamed Aptos. This is a total guess but I reckon the font was probably named after Albert Bierstadt, and re-named because in German it means "beer city". Aptos is taken from its creator Steve Matteson's favourite unincorporated town in California, with the word coming from the indigenous language Ohlone and meaning "the people".
