# Can somebody explain the Calibri issue to me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-somebody-explain-the-calibri-issue-to-me/1025690>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-somebody-explain-the-calibri-issue-to-me/1025690 "2025-12-14T20:05:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 14

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-somebody-explain-the-calibri-issue-to-me/1025690/14 "2025-12-14T21:10:44Z")

</div>

I thought I remembered an older thread on this:

> [@How can I kill calibri?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-kill-calibri/841788):
>
> Calibri (the font) not Colibri (the moderator) - he can live; however Calibri. Must. DIE!!! I’ve changed it so that it’s not the default in Outlook, xl, & Word but that’s only for documents that I create. I can’t find how to replace it as a system default. When I extract a spreadsheet from our system, it opens in that God-forsaken font. Despite having a spreadsheet in Arial, when I paste a url in (that’s not in shitfont on the website) it shows up that way in my spreadsheet. It’s even the d…

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-somebody-explain-the-calibri-issue-to-me/1025690)._