The ClearType Font Collection

re: The ClearType Font Collection

vintner — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:59:39 GMT

I bought Office 2007, so I should have these fonts. I'd love to see these documents, but .xps documents apparently don't open on WinXP with Firefox. I really tried to use IE7, but it crashed at least once a day taking the state of my dozen tabs with it. Firefox is, sadly enough, a vastly better browser. Making a new file format that doesn't work with Firefox is extremely shortsighted.

re: The ClearType Font Collection

UrbanK — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:37:16 GMT

The ClearType optimized font Consolas, which is a monospace font, is available for download for XP users. I use it when I program in Microsoft Visual Studio, and it's mighty fine.

re: The ClearType Font Collection

Mikel Ward — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:11:30 GMT

These fonts look really good, but they look smaller at the same size than other fonts. Why is this?

re: The ClearType Font Collection

Faramond — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:46:57 GMT

Beautiful typefaces!!! Now if only Word supported the ligatures (and did better justification)...

re: The ClearType Font Collection

Klettergriffe TüV — Sat, 26 May 2007 00:04:16 GMT

Very cool fonts.

Thanks a lot for this cool blog.

See you. Hans from Germany

Uhhhh... I’m, like, angry at numbers.

fontblog — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:57:20 GMT

A teacher asks Butt-head if he is angry for some reason Butt-head: Uhhhh... I’m, like, angry at numbers.

I second Mikel Ward's concern about font sizes

Nathan Bowers — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:20:50 GMT

Why do the wonderful new Vista fonts render so much smaller than older fonts in browsers? I think it only happens when using relative sizes (instead of pixels), but that's a big problem. It wouldn't be a problem if IE could resize pixel sized fonts, but it can't.

Microsoft *completely* snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with the new Vista fonts.