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Please.

Remove it from all menu bars, status bars, buttons, list views, "about" dialogs for all eternity. I can't stand it. Please don't let me see it in Vista.

Seriously, it's so last... decade.

Steve411

Completely understandable. I hope they change it, too.

Please, do NOT start a petition.
Steve.

RandyRants

Meanwhile Helvetica was in most Mac products from 80-something through the fourth generation of iPods... I don't think the colour models use it, though.

Just odd how trends go...

intelman

I thought Windows Vista, formally known as Codename: Longhorn, was going to bring more fonts, for easier readability!

footballism

jlowgren wrote:

Please.

Remove it from all menu bars, status bars, buttons, list views, "about" dialogs for all eternity. I can't stand it. Please don't let me see it in Vista.

Seriously, it's so last... decade.

Understandable and comprehensible, just let your angry flood out, leave all those nitty nasty stuffs for MS guys to fix:P

Santosha

Vista uses new font "Segoe UI"...not too bad. Wink

jonathanh

Preview of Longhorn fonts

blowdart

jonathanh wrote:

Preview of Longhorn fonts

And as truetype fonts they work under XP. Hehehehe. Consolas has been my default fault for visual studio and fixed width IE and Outlook for quite a while.

MisterDonut

Where did you get them? Or should I say, how?

blowdart

MisterDonut wrote:

Where did you get them? Or should I say, how?

I got mine from the longhorn preview. I guess I'm breaking my license by using them on my XP box. Bad! Bad!

MisterDonut

MisterDonut wrote:

Where did you get them? Or should I say, how?

DOH!

Nevermind.. Smiley

zzzzz

blowdart wrote:

I got mine from the longhorn preview. I guess I'm breaking my license by using them on my XP box. Bad! Bad!

please email please I'll burn in MS hell i know

dam that MS Sans Serif and double dam Times New Roman. Why does it seem that Times New Roman, Courier, and Courier New, are the default fonts in all applications.

PaoloM

If you write applications that are supposed to use the system font for XP (Tahoma) or Vista (Segoe UI), please please please use MS Shell Dlg2. It's a virtual font that maps to the "right" one for your system.

Harlequin

Segoe is the font used for Microsoft branding as well. You'll see if it most graphics on Microsoft websites. It is a nice sans serif font. Vista should be quite sleek with it Smiley

Yggdrasil

RandyRants wrote:

Meanwhile Helvetica was in most Mac products from 80-something through the fourth generation of iPods... I don't think the colour models use it, though.

Just odd how trends go...

Actually, I think the system font for Macs is called Chicago, and is a large part of the reason I don't like Macs much. Or iPods.

Helvetica is more or less Arial, if I remember correctly.

Yggdrasil

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Mike Dimmick

PaoloM wrote:

If you write applications that are supposed to use the system font for XP (Tahoma) or Vista (Segoe UI), please please please use MS Shell Dlg2. It's a virtual font that maps to the "right" one for your system.

The IE7 team are guilty: they used Arial for the tabs in Beta 1. Naughty.

Minh

blowdart wrote:

And as truetype fonts they work under XP. Hehehehe. Consolas has been my default fault for visual studio and fixed width IE and Outlook for quite a while.

Hmmm... wonder how that works. Didn't they say that the have a new hinting system for Vista fonts? So, isn't that a new TrueType version? Maybe XP knows enough to ignore the new hints. Maybe the fonts you have don't have the new hints.

blowdart

Minh wrote:

Hmmm... wonder how that works. Didn't they say that the have a new hinting system for Vista fonts? So, isn't that a new TrueType version? Maybe XP knows enough to ignore the new hints. Maybe the fonts you have don't have the new hints.

Ah good point. Well this was from the previous "longhorn" releases.