Reverting Aptos +body/+headings font back to Calibri, or using any other font

Anonymous
2024-01-11T01:32:12+00:00

At some point in the last couple of days, the default +body/+headings font on my copy of Office 365 changed to the Aptos font. I honestly find it a bit hard to read, and I'd rather choose my default body font from a choice of whatever fonts I have installed. Failing that, I'd take Calibri again. The Aptos font reminds me a lot of

Since this affects all Office products, I can't say go into Outlook and change the stationery fonts; this doesn't impact the Reading Pane. It also wouldn't impact say Word, where I'd have to come up with my own document template to override the change. It doesn't seem to be a registry edit or template file edit, either. Is there a spot that the Aptos font can be changed?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T11:55:15+00:00

    Indeed! It's messed up my team's templated comms, too. Where it's obvious that it's been cut and pasted. Looks okay on screen but obvious on the recipient's end. Who makes these decisions anyway? Well you know what they say, misery loves company. So I'm guessing there are more than a few of us. :)!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T14:37:04+00:00

    Thank you Stefan. I am aware of those settings and custom options for the Office apps.

    However, for some reason I still have minor issues with the 3rd party apps, such as Adobe products, that warn me about Aptos not being available, and substituting it with Times New Roman. Even though I don't use Aptos font anywhere in my Adobe docs and templates. It's somehow picking up the +Body and +Heading styles from Office. It may be due to some text copied and pasted from the Edge browser.

    If Office is rolling out this new font family, why does my Windows 11 OS not have Aptos font installed? Why is Aptos font not available in something like the Microsoft Store? Why make people use the font, but not install it? Where can users get the Aptos font?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-24T01:29:56+00:00

    Interesting that the typeface in this community forum is not Aptos, but Segoe UI.

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  4. Stefan Blom 351.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-21T20:29:16+00:00

    Thanks for the follow-up. If you posted in the web portal, you can include a link here, so that other people can vote for your suggestion as well.

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  5. Stefan Blom 351.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-16T20:08:18+00:00

    Is there a way to make this change across all Microsoft programs? Apparently my font style was changed to Aptos across all programs.

    As users, we can only change settings for each Office application separately.

    Microsoft can of course change the factory defaults, embedded into the program code. :-)

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