Calibri is dead. Help pick Microsoft's new Office font.

The hegemony of Calibri is about to end, and you — yes, you — could help choose the new king of typefaces for Microsoft Office.

Calibri had a long and impressive reign, born in 2007 as a replacement for the paragon of all typefaces, Times New Roman, as the Office default. But Microsoft, in its wise and long-enduring typographic wisdom, has decided it's time for a forced retirement.

And what, you might want to know, will be the new Calibri? The company has released five new custom typefaces in Microsoft office, and it's encouraging users to play with them and share how they feel on social before Microsoft selects a winner. The new fonts offer an extensive range of aesthetic type and design taste (if you're into the niche design details, check out Microsoft's blog post), but they all have one common theme to my very inexpert, regular type-user eye: they are just so Modern. (By the way, Microsoft calls them "fonts," but what you might think of as a font is actually a typeface.)

Your options are: Tenorite, a sort of warmer Times New Roman; Bierstadt, a precise, rational, sort of typerwritery-vibe (also, that name is just too long for everyday use); Skeena, a soft-edged sort of Swedish-minimalist typeface; Seaford, which is asymmetrically old-fashioned; and Grandview, a highly legible take on German railway signage.

Microsoft will be making this very important call in the next couple of months, so if you really hate one of these, be sure to let it know. The new font will soon haunt you everywhere you go.