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News Release from: Monotype Imaging | Subject: Cambria family fonts
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New Fonts Developed For Windows Vista
Monotype Imaging has collaborated with Microsoft to include new and extended fonts with the Microsoft 2007 Office software and Windows Vista operating system.
Monotype Imaging has collaborated with Microsoft to include new and extended fonts with the Microsoft 2007 Office software and Windows Vista operating system Amongst the projects are the design of the Cambria typeface, the fine-tuning of character shapes to maximise screen readability, the addition of characters to the Windows core fonts and the design and production of East Asian fonts
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The four-font Cambria family, designed by Jelle Bosma of Monotype Imaging, is the new default serif typeface for Office products and is part of the Cleartype Collection of fonts included in the Vista operating system.
Monotype said that the design was optimised to take advantage of Microsoft's patented Cleartype subpixel rendering, which involves the manipulation of parts of pixels, rather than whole pixels to fine-tune character shapes and spacing for maximising screen readability, said Monotype.
Julie Bennett, general manager of Windows International at Microsoft, said: "As text plays such an important role within our products, it's essential they incorporate well designed, culturally appropriate fonts that are highly legible and easy to read.
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Our work with Monotype Imaging involved tapping in to different areas of the company's expertise, from designing typefaces that look great on-screen to producing fonts for various languages." Geoff Greve, vice president of font development at Monotype Imaging, commented: "In addition to our work with some of the Cleartype fonts, the existing Windows core fonts received equal attention from our type designers and typographic engineers.
Thousands of characters were added to the Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New typefaces to comply with the latest release of the Unicode Standard, the international industry specification designed to allow text and symbols from the world's writing systems to be consistently represented by computers." Greve added: "As these typefaces move forward from previous Windows versions to Vista, it became necessary to expand their character sets to keep pace with the increasing glyph repertoire of the evolving Unicode standard.
Through our work, the number of glyphs more than doubled in some cases, reaching in to the thousands.
The Times New Roman Italic design, for example, increased to 2,499 glyphs from 640 available previously in Windows XP." Monotype said that the development of the Segoe UI (user interface) typeface family by Monotype Imaging was also a key project.
Steve Martin, vice president of engineering at Monotype Imaging, explained: "Whilst document or traditional publishing fonts are one facet of a successful international operating system, user interface fonts are in some ways more important.
These fonts are at the heart of a user's interaction with the operating system." The Office and Windows products both use the new Segoe UI typeface family, a Humanist sans serif design developed for on-screen viewing of UI elements at eight, nine and 10 points in size.
Martin continued: "Despite the technical aspects of the projects we handled for Microsoft, design considerations were paramount, such as ensuring consistency between east Asian fonts and the look-and-feel of the Segoe UI design.
The x-height, size, colour and baseline of the east Asian fonts - all of which play a role in readability - needed to complement Segoe UI." He said that part of Monotype's objective involved parity with font and weight selection that was consistent from one language to another.
In achieving that, true bold weights of east Asian fonts were made available in Vista, allowing for a claimed higher level of display and print quality compared to previous pseudo-emboldening methods used to create bold effects.
The default Office serif and sans serif Cambria and Calibri typefaces are available exclusively to printer manufacturers through Monotype Imaging in the company's Microtype font format, said Monotype.
Rod Acosta, product marketing manager at Monotype Imaging, added: "With these designs poised to define the look of countless documents, e-mails and presentations, OEMs who embed the fonts in their printers stand to offer a substantial compatibility, speed and reliability advantage over their competition.".
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