typography – rich text https://www.lafferty.ca Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:50:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 Microsoft’s great new Vista fonts available free https://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/07/microsofts-great-new-vista-fonts-available-free/ https://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/07/microsofts-great-new-vista-fonts-available-free/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:50:42 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/07/microsofts-great-new-vista-fonts-available-free/ Joey at Global Nerdy points out that the six new fonts included with Vista are also available free with Microsoft’s Powerpoint 2007 Viewer application: install Powerpoint Viewer, get the fonts.

Microsoft C-fonts examples

There are better samples over on Joey’s post. I did up a document (my MBA application letter, yay!) in Constantia tonight and it’s a nice, readable body typeface; goodbye, Times New Roman! Or at least goodbye Georgia. Candara looks like a Verdana replacement, Calibria Arial. Consolas is monospace. I can’t place Corbel. I love all six. I don’t know what’s with the Cs, though.

(Also, here’s how to get the fonts out of the installer if you’re in Linux, at least. I don’t know if the same technique will work on OS X.)

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