" A humanist sans-serif was appropriate for tech in the new millennium, where our Apple computers came in transparent shades of neon plastic and the first iPhone debuted in 2007. It represented modernity, sleek design, and a dramatic change from Times New Roman whose familiarity came from its ubiquity in traditional print media like newspapers, books, and other ancient artifacts...
Calibri has more in common with Comic Sans than it does with the classic chicness of Miedinger and Hoffmann’s neo-grotesque masterpiece. The design feature most offending to the senses is Calibri’s rounded terminals. As the three figures below illustrate, Calibri, like Comic Sans, is infantile and contradictory to the modern aesthetic essential to good sans-serif typefaces."
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