July 9, 2007

Vista ClearType Fonts

Included with Windows Vista and Office 2007 are the first new web/screen fonts since Windows 95. These fonts have exceptional readably on LCD screens due to being optimized for ClearType (the font rendering technology in XP & Vista), and are a nice change to the standard Arial, Tahoma, Verdana's we've been using on the web for the last 10 years.

However, if you don't have Vista or Office 2007 it is still possible to get these fonts [legally] by downloading either the Office 2007 file format compatibility pack if you have a previous version of Office, or the Power Point 2007 viewer if you don't have Office.

If you have a Mac or Unix machine, it should be possible to extract the font files from the .cab file in either installer and use them directly. The 7-zip File Manager on Windows can open both files, but you didn't hear that from me ;-)

Posted by Matt at July 9, 2007 3:37 PM

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