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Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
A true italic was also a characteristic of Frutiger Next, which came between Myriad and Segoe. As I recall, the Linotype case against Segoe was specifically that it infringed Frutiger Next.2 -
Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
One of my favourite OpenType memories from the early days was visiting Adobe with a group of other type designers and Ross demo’ing the beta OTL support in the upcoming version of FontLab. At the tim…1 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Segoe has been central to the branding of Microsoft in general and Windows in particular for almost 20 years. It is everywhere in Microsoft branding and user experience, and used with great consisten…4 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
WordPad began life a stripped down version of Word (hence the name), so while it ships with the OS it takes its cues from Word. Yes, eventually it is likely that some of the new fonts will ship bundl…3 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
The brief was to create new sans serif families for Office, with the possibility that one of them might eventually replace Calibri as the default font for new documents (i.e. new documents that don’t…10
