https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172713

V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed:

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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33
                   |                            |743,
                   |                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15
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--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
Stylistic question is fair, although personally I see no advantage to a San
Serif vs. a Serif font choice by default in my Writer compositions.

But first, be aware that this question only covers the Western leg of the ODF
font trifecta. CJK, and the CTL locales get their own handling.

But for OOXML compatibility, while Liberation Serif was a legacy choice for its
metric equivalence to the prior MS Word use of Times New Roman. For Word in MS
Office 2007 they changed default from TNR to Calibri (a Sans-serif) or now to
Aptos (also Sans-serif) for Office 2023/365

By rights TDF probably should have matched and moved the LO default document
font to the Google sponsored Carlito font as metric equiv when it became
available in 2013 after MS Word went by default to Calibri, not sure why we
didn't.

But at present, no opensource metric equiv to Aptos yet so we have BZ issues
like 162872

We have asked TDF to sponsor an Aptos metric equiv, but effort stalled with
regime change.

On the functional side, it remains difficult in UI to manipulate default fonts
from UI -- the Basic Fonts dialogs of Writer, or need for users to fabricate
their own styled templates.  Default font issues of opposing see also bug
33743, or bug 152550

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