Cleartype Team - Talking about new Fonts on Longhorn (Happy Birthday Video #4)
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What is the one thing looked at more than anything else on your computer?
Fonts!
You never think of them, right? Well, that's by design: good fonts aren't noticed for the most part but they are important in how usable your computer is and how easy it is to use for a long period of time and how productive you'll be on it.
The Cleartype team, which makes both fonts as well as the technology to display them better on your screen, were hanging out in the hall the other day so we turned on our camera and started talking.
You get to see what happens next. Here's who you are meeting in this video: Greg Hitchcock (Architect); Geraldine Wade (Program Manager); Paul Linnerud (Software Design Engineer); Kevin Larson (Researcher); Michael Duggan (Program Manager).
Oh, and that Japanese font is stunning on Longhorn. But more on Longhorn in future videos.
By the way, make sure you tune your Cleartype for best results.
Fonts!
You never think of them, right? Well, that's by design: good fonts aren't noticed for the most part but they are important in how usable your computer is and how easy it is to use for a long period of time and how productive you'll be on it.
The Cleartype team, which makes both fonts as well as the technology to display them better on your screen, were hanging out in the hall the other day so we turned on our camera and started talking.
You get to see what happens next. Here's who you are meeting in this video: Greg Hitchcock (Architect); Geraldine Wade (Program Manager); Paul Linnerud (Software Design Engineer); Kevin Larson (Researcher); Michael Duggan (Program Manager).
Oh, and that Japanese font is stunning on Longhorn. But more on Longhorn in future videos.
By the way, make sure you tune your Cleartype for best results.
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I would like some more attention to mono-spaced fonts. As a developer, this is what I am using all day.
Currently I am using Andale Mono from IE 5, this is much better as the standard Courier New.
Second that!
I read that the new set of fonts for Longhorn will contain a fixed font called Consolas. I don't know if it will be a full family (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) or a single font as Lucida Console is now. The problem is that with a single font you cannot really use it with Visual Studio's syntax highlighting when bold face is used for keywords. A lack of proper Bold variation of the font you use breaks source code column alignment. To see what I mean, try using VS with Courier New (nice columns) and Lucida Console (ugly, columns broken).
Congrats!
There's more info about the Longhorn fonts at http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
However, the author gives only passing info about Consolas, the mono-spaced font.
Consolas is designed by Lucas de Groot, and has the following characteristics:
¨ Sans Serif
¨ Intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified
¨ All characters have the same width, like old typewriters
¨ Good choice for personal and business correspondence
¨ More comfortable reading of extended text on-screen
¨ Good for programmers setting code (its core purpose)
By the way,---I've found Frutiger Linotype to be a font that already exists which looks good both on screen and in print.
One of my favorite type foundries is Emigre (www.emigre.com) -- look at the font Filosofia, its one of the most beautiful serif typefaces around. The Base 9/Base 12 are good technical fonts, and Base Monospace for code. Then of course FontFont (www.fontfont.com) has created some important fonts like Scala/Scala Sans.
I'm also recently interested in different styles of handwriting, if you look at each century in history there is change in handwriting styles; and its interesting the cultural and aesthetic reasons handwriting styles change
I've been trying to use ClearType on XP and I've never really been happy with it in general.
The Cleartype used in Office XP read views and panes though seems much improved, one would expect Longhorn to look better again I guess.
There was an interesting somebody @ microsoft.com on .NET TV recently where Bill Hill was interviewed where he talks about ClearType lots.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode045/default.asp
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