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In Windows 11 24H2, this is my taskbar system clock. Everywhere I've looked online says that the default font for Windows 11, including for the clock time, is Segoe UI or Segoe UI Variable. HOWEVER, in those fonts the character 1 does not have a crossbar at the bottom, whereas in my screenshot you can see that it does.

I have even tried examining the Windows style configuration using msstyleEditor but I can only find references to Segoe UI. Can anyone help ID this font? (I am trying to make myself a taskbar utility that matches the clock stylistically.)

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Actually, it is Segoe UI. Calibri does not have the “double-curved” 2

The trick is that Segoe UI has some alternate glyph shapes in OpenType style sets. The 1 with bottom serifs is in Style Set 1 (ss01)

Basic Segoe UI: Basic Segoe UI

Segoe UI with ss01: Segoe UI with ss01

Differences:

  • 1 gains bottom serifs
  • 2 loses the double curve
  • 4 loses subtle curve and crossbar is raised
  • 7 goes from curved to straight leg
  • 8 goes from double-circle to double-teardrop
  • I gains serifs
  • tail of Q longer and curvier

So the tray clock uses ss01 for the 1, but not the 2 or 4.

And That’s Not All!

Another subtlety in the clock is that it does not use the colon! It uses the ratio symbol (Unicode U+2236), which is better positioned vertically between the digits:

colon versus ratio

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