<Tr> <Th> License </Th> <Td> Proprietary </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Metrically compatible with </Th> <Td> Carlito </Td> </Tr> <P> 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". </P> <P> 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 . </P>

When was calibri font made available for use