http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/15/introducing-the-directwrite-font-system.aspxHi, my name is Niklas Borson and I’m a developer on the DirectWrite team at Microsoft. DirectWrite has multiple layers of functionality, including text layout, script processing, glyph rendering, and the font system. In this post, I’d like to talk abouten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/15/introducing-the-directwrite-font-system.aspx#9553420Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:35:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9553420SWB<p>In your example, why is Franklin Gothic Book a separate family? IMHO, it should be in the &quot;Franklin Gothic&quot; family with the other variations.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/15/introducing-the-directwrite-font-system.aspx#9557127Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:11:49 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9557127text<p>@SWB: Good question! It's true that from a font designer's point of view, Franklin Gothic Book (FRABK.TTF) and Franklin Gothic Regular (FRANK.TTF) belong in the same family because they're variations on a common design.</p> <p> &nbsp; However, both these fonts have the same weight (400), the same width/stretch (5), and the same style (0). For reasons of API simplicity, these are the only three properties you can use to select among fonts in the same family using DirectWrite. If these two fonts were in the same family, you would not be able to specify which one you wanted!</p> <p> &nbsp;Another way of putting it is this. We don't have a &quot;Book&quot; property so fonts that differ in &quot;Bookness&quot; belong in a separate font families.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/15/introducing-the-directwrite-font-system.aspx#9634314Fri, 22 May 2009 00:03:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9634314Jan<p>I am curious which programs are using it in windows 7. When will a version of Word come out that can interpret DirectWrite?</p>