There are only two serif fonts in the “C” collection, and Cambria is, to my eye, the lesser of the two. Font maven Megan McDermott observes that Calibri “looks terrible in Opera and Firefox,” an observation I don’t agree with, but since I respect her work, I’m passing along her opinion. Calibri’s designer Lucas de Groot says, “Its proportions allow high impact in tightly set lines of big and small type alike.” When anti-aliasing is applied, it is an attractive and very reader-friendly font when it is not applied, Calibri looks like something I’d draw with my foot. The new default font for MS Office apps - replacing the tired old warhorse, Times New Roman - Calibri is a softer, more rounded sans-serif font. Here is a bit of information about each of the “C” Vista fonts.
If you don’t have them yet, keep reading! The “C” List
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If you have Vista, Windows 7, MS Office 2007 for Windows, or MS Office 2008 for the Mac, you have these fonts already. Microsoft probably spent more money on lawyers doing trademark searches than they spent on the typeface development! As I recall, the day before the penultimate choice came back rejected, I’d been singing some psalms during vespers, and noticed the word constantia. I can’t remember all the possible names I came up with, each of which ended up rejected after international trademark searches. “One of the Microsoft managers had come up with the idea that all the CT fonts should have names that started with C. John Hudson, the font designer who made one of the C” fonts (Constantia), shares some insights on how the “C” font names were picked: Let’s examine the fonts themselves, starting with the best known of the group: the 6 “C” fonts - their nickname derived from the fact that all their names start with the letter C, and officially, because they are part of the Microsoft ClearType font collection.
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In addition, the design community deserves some thought as to how to use them in their work. But I like these fonts: they’re beautiful and they are available in many of our user’s computers (as much as 92% of all PCs use Windows as of May 2010 ). Trust Microsoft to create something attractive and potentially valuable like this set of spiffy new fonts (or an operating system like Vista), and then take steps to ensure they can’t be used easily.
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