screen fonts 2006
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- mevsthem
These are there the fonts that will be in windows longhorn mainly used for websites
- mevsthem0
there not complete cause some characters are still missing in some of them, but this preview should give u an idea of what kinda fonts you will be able to support for the web in 2006
- F_180
nice.
- boiconet0
Have you managed to get hold of the fonts already?
- mevsthem0
there is also another font based on frutiger and it will be the default font in longhorn.
- mevsthem0
the fonts are in the pre beta, there not 100% complete atleast i think there not...
- Typographica0
Actually these fonts were made for MS Word, not web development. It would be a mistake to specify them for web use because they aren't available on the Mac or other OS's.
- Typographica0
Yep, the author of that column didn't really do her research. Remember, these fonts are for Longhorn only. Not even users of other Windows OS's will be able to use them.
http://www.typophile.com/forums/…
"But these fonts are very unlikely to ever be freely licensed in the way Georgia and Verdana were. Georgia and Verdana were distributed in the way they were in order to ensure widespread availability for spec'ing in websites. The new MS fonts are specifically value-added components of Longhorn, intended to improve the onscreen reading experience of Longhorn users."
- mevsthem0
oh, thanks for the info / link Typographica apprecaite it :)
- armed_rob0
link dosent work anymore?
- mevsthem0
nope i took it down.
- sauerbraten0
Segoe is really very nice.
- mevsthem0
yep seen that, was gonna post it but couldn't find hte link... wish they didn't change the "1" though...
- mevsthem0
here is it in action
http://www.mevsthem.com/public/m…