Is Microsoft Coming?

John Savard

Over the last couple of days, the login screen of my Windows computer has asked me:

"Put a finger down if you have ever spent way too much time choosing a font"...

which leads me to suspect Microsoft is going to offer something to make people's lives easier by quickly recommending the perfect typeface for any document or web site. The typefaces presumably will just happen to be from Microsoft, so all you independent type designers - and even the type designers who work for Monotype instead - will be out of business.

Except this won't work because everybody only uses Google Fonts because they're free and legally safe.

I'm probably just being paranoid, but this doesn't worry me nearly as much as it may worry many of the people here who actually do design typefaces for a living.