Microsoft is to release six new typefaces
I’ve been seeing Verdana everywhere recently, sometimes it feel like I might drown in a sea of Verdana, the problem is there aren’t many alternatives. The 6 new fonts announced by Microsoft is good news in this respect, though they’re unlikely to be supported by Macs and extremely unlikely to be supported on Linux this isn’t a big worry for websites, since CSS allows you to very simply support proprietary typefaces and fall back to more generic versions.
On a related note you can now also get a ClearType Tuner PowerToy from Microsoft. When I first tried ClearType it seemed to make type harder to read, the anti-aliasing was colour shifting and ragged, now though with this tuner I get better results and consequently haven’t turned it off immediately. However the TEXTAREA I’m typing this entry into is using Courier, and ClearType doesn’t seem to be coping to well, I’m going to stick with it though and maybe just change the CSS for my MT install to se a different font for TEXTAREAs.
Anyway, here’s a screen grab of my XP machine running ClearType, make your own mind up.
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