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typography with style Cambria & Corbel

ambria and Corbel Jeremy Tankard for Microsoft and released are part of the suite in 2005. It is a part of the new suite of fonts - that come with Microsoft Windows Vista of fonts that comes- with Microsoft Win developed to take advantage of ClearType to improve the reading experience in Windows dows Vista, Win - Vista and Office 2007. dows 7, Microsoft Corbel is designed to give an uncluttered, Office 2007, Mi clean appearance on screen. The letter forms Ccrosoft Office 2008 are open with soft, flowing curves. It is legible, for Mac and Microsoft Office 2011 for clear and functional at small sizes. At larger Mac, specifically designed for on-screen sizes the detailing and style of the shapes is reading and to be aesthetically pleasing more apparent resulting in a modern sans serif when printed at small sizes. Cambria is a transitional serif font. It has type with a wide range of possible uses. very even spacing and proportions. Diagonal Corbel includes text figures (old style or - and vertical hairlines and serifs are relatively lowercase numerals), which are very suitable for setting running text. This is an uncommon strong, while horizontal serifs are small and in - tend to emphasize stroke endings rather than feature in screen fonts, especially in sans-serif stand out themselves. This principle is most faces (lowercase numerals are found in Micro noticeable in the italics where the lowercase soft’s serif Georgia typeface). characters are subdued in style. Cambria was These fonts, along with Calibri, Candara, designed by Dutch typographer Jelle Bosma in Consolas and Constantia, are also distributed § 2004, with Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas. with the free PowerPoint 2007 Viewer and the Corbel is a sans-serif typeface designed by Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Newsletter design Constantia & Calibri typography with style

onstantia is Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface part of the new family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Col- suite of type- lection. In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface faces that come in Word and replaced Arial as the default in with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad. It Windows Vista. continued to be the default typeface in Micro- It is a modu- soft Office 2010 applications. lated wedge-serif Calibri was designed by Lucas de Groot typeface designed primarily for continu- for Microsoft to take advantage of Microsoft’s Cous text in both electronic and paper ClearType rendering technology. publishing. The design responds to the The font features subtly rounded stems recent narrowing of the gap between and corners that are visible at larger sizes. The typeface includes characters from Latin, Latin screen readability and traditional print extended, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts. OpenTy- media, exploiting specific aspects of the pe features include small caps, subscripts and ClearType rendering, such as sub-pixel superscripts, and extra ligatures. positioning. As with other Sans Serif ClearType Collec- The classic proportions of relatively small tion fonts, it includes unique italic type fea- x-height and long extenders make Constantia tures, which are common in modern typefaces. suitable for book and journal publishing, while These fonts, along with Cambria, Candara, the slight squareness and open counters ensure Consolas and Corbel, are also distributed with that it remains legible even at small sizes. The the free PowerPoint 2007 Viewer and the Mi- development began in 2003. crosoft Office Compatibility Pack. §