LibreOffice has a new fix for Microsoft changing its default font to Aptos
“Microsoft has moved away from its legacy ClearType fonts. This includes familiar names like Calibri, Candida, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel, and Segoe for Western languages. Microsoft is now using Aptos as the new default font for Western languages. This shift is apparently what prompted The Document Foundation to refresh its guidance and tools. For years, proprietary fonts standard on Windows and macOS have been used as a lock-in tool.”
Despite Microsoft's lip service to supporting open standards, it seems to have gone out of its way to keep tweaking thing which end up breaking compatibility with open standards. Fonts had come right years ago when most Microsoft fonts also became available on Linux, but of course now Microsoft has again shifted its ground.
Of course, if more users opted to use free and open standards, we'd have a lot less of this problem in the first place. It does appear though that the Aptos font can be downloaded from Microsoft, so hopefully LibreOffice's solution also gets implemented soon by ONLYoffice, FreeOffice, etc too.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/libreoffice-has-a-new-fix-for-your-font-problems
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