Calibri - wikipedia Calibri Calibri Sans - serif Classification Modern Designer ( s ) Luc ( as ) de Groot Foundry Microsoft Date created 2002 -- 2004 Date released 2007 License Proprietary Metrically compatible with Carlito Calibri ( / kəˈliːbri / ) is a sans - serif typeface family designed by Luc ( as ) de Groot in 2002 -- 2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad. Creator de Groot described its subtly rounded design as having `` a warm and soft character ''. Calibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista. All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft 's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on LCD monitors. The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel. Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Availability 3 Awards 4 In politics 5 References 6 External links Characteristics Calibri features subtly rounded stems and corners that are visible at larger sizes. Its sloped form is a `` true italic '' with handwriting influences, which are common in modern sans - serif typefaces. The typeface includes characters from Latin, Latin extended, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. Calibri makes extensive use of sophisticated OpenType formatting ; it features a range of ligatures as well as lining and text figures, indices ( numbers enclosed by circles ) up to 20, and an alternate f and g accessible by enabling the fourth and fifth stylistic sets. Some features in Calibri remain unsupported by Office, including true small caps, all - caps spacing, superscript and subscript glyphs and the ability to create arbitrary fractions ; these may be accessed using programs such as InDesign. One potential source of confusion in Calibri is a visible homoglyph, a pair of easily confused characters : the lowercase letter L and the uppercase letter i ( l and I ) of the Latin script are effectively indistinguishable ; this is true of many other common fonts, however. The design has clear similarities to de Groot 's famous and much more extensive commercial family TheSans, although this has straight ends rather than rounding. As of 2017 a Hebrew version is in development. De Groot has also said in 2016 that he would like if possible to add Bulgarian Cyrillic variant letterforms at a later date. Availability A comparison between Calibri and Carlito in some of the more different glyphs Because of the long development of Windows Vista, Calibri 's development -- from 2002 to 2004 -- occurred several years before the release of that OS. It was first presented in a 2004 beta of Windows Vista, then codenamed Longhorn, and first became available for use with the Beta 2 version of Office 2007, released on May 23, 2006. Calibri and the rest of the ClearType Font Collection were finally released to the general public on January 30, 2007, since when it has been released with most Microsoft software environments. Calibri is also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. For use in other operating systems, such as cross-platform web use, Calibri is licensed by Ascender Corporation and its parent company Monotype Imaging. The font Calibri Light was introduced in Microsoft Windows 8 and added to Windows 7 and Server 2008 as part of a software update. From Microsoft Word 2013 onwards, Calibri and Calibri Light are the default fonts for body text and headings respectively. Calibri Light is also a default font for headings in Powerpoint. In 2013, due to Calibri 's widespread use in Microsoft Office documents, Google released a freely - licensed font called Carlito, which is metric - compatible to Calibri, as part of ChromeOS. Because Carlito has the same font metrics as Calibri, ChromeOS users can correctly display and print a document designed in Calibri without disrupting layout. Awards Calibri won the TDC2 2005 award from the Type Directors Club under the Type System category. In politics Because of Calibri 's position as the default font in Office, many cases have been reported in which documents were shown to be forged thanks to a purported creation date before Calibri was available to the general public. In 2017, the font came to public attention as evidence in the Pakistani government - related `` Panama Papers '' case ( also known as # Fontgate ), in which a document supposedly signed in February 2006 was found to be typed up in Calibri. De Groot said that there was `` really zero chance '' that the document was genuine. References ^ Jump up to : Berry, John D. ( 2004 ). Now Read This : the Microsoft ClearType Collection. Redmond, WA : Microsoft Corp. ^ Jump up to : Phinney, Thomas. `` Calibri reached the general public on January 30, 2007, with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista on that date. ''. Quora. Retrieved 11 July 2017. ^ Jump up to : Berry, John D. ; De Groot, Lucas. `` Case Study : Microsoft ClearType ''. Lucasfonts. Retrieved 11 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Microsoft typography : Calibri ''. Microsoft. Retrieved 10 Dec 2011. Jump up ^ `` The Microsoft ClearType Font Collection ''. Microsoft Typography. Microsoft. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ Hudson, John. `` Comments on Typophile thread ''. Typophile. Retrieved 28 September 2014. ^ Jump up to : Van Wagener, Anne. `` The Next Big Thing in Online Type ''. Poynter Online. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ Levien, Raph. `` Microsoft 's ClearType Font Collection : A Fair and Balanced Review ''. Typographica. Retrieved 24 November 2014. Jump up ^ Batchelor, Lee. `` Opentype Features in Microsoft Word ''. Leeviathan. Retrieved 7 July 2015. Jump up ^ Middendorp, Jan ( 2004 ). `` The Two Sides of Luc ( as ) de Groot ''. Dutch Type. Rotterdam : 010. pp. 219 -- 227. ^ Jump up to : van de Klundert, Mitchell. `` Het Nederlandse Calibri brengt mogelijk de Pakistaanse premier ten val ''. Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. Retrieved 14 July 2017. Jump up ^ Knecht, Sonja. `` European Cyrillics ''. TXET. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ Mondok, Matt ( 23 May 2006 ). `` Office 2007 Beta 2 released for the masses ''. Ars Technica. Retrieved 18 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Download Excel Viewer from Official Microsoft Download Center ''. Microsoft. Jump up ^ `` Download PowerPoint Viewer from Official Microsoft Download Center ''. Microsoft. Jump up ^ `` Download Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats from Official Microsoft Download Center ''. Microsoft. Jump up ^ `` Download Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2. 1 from Official Microsoft Download Center ''. Microsoft. Jump up ^ `` Calibri ''. MyFonts. Monotype Imaging / Ascender Corporation. Retrieved 30 August 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` An update is available to add the Calibri Light and Calibri Light Italic fonts to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ''. Microsoft Support. Microsoft. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ `` A thank you to Google from Desktop Linux ''. GNOME blog. Jump up ^ TDC2 2005 : Winning Entries Jump up ^ Arbes, Ross. `` Calibri 's Scandalous History ''. The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 1 August 2017. Jump up ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/13/fontgate-microsoft-wikipedia-and-the-scandal-threatening-the-pakistani-pm Jump up ^ McKurdy, Euan ; Saifi, Sophia. `` At the center of a corruption case involving the Pakistani Prime Minister is a font ''. CNN. Retrieved 14 July 2017. Jump up ^ Clark, Bryan ( 11 July 2017 ). `` Microsoft 's default font is at the center of a government corruption case ''. The Next Web. Retrieved 11 July 2017. Jump up ^ Siddiqui, Zarin ( 12 July 2017 ). `` We asked the creator of Calibri to weigh in on the JIT debate ''. Dawn. Retrieved 13 July 2017. Jump up ^ Jafar, Ovais. `` ' Extremely unlikely ' Calibri used in Feb 2006 to draft legal document, says font creator ''. geo.tv. Retrieved 4 August 2017. 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Question: when was calibri font made available for use
Answer: 2007