Beautiful New Vista Fonts Available For Download

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Beautiful New Vista Fonts Available For Download

by Jason Clarke (RSS feed) Jul 29th 2005 at 11:32AM

Not sure how long this is going to last, but if you're so inclined, right now you can get your hands on a zip file of the six new fonts that were commissioned for ~~Longhorn~~ Vista. Above you can see the likely replacement for Verdana / Tahoma, called Calibri. To learn more about what makes these fonts special, check out this article at Poynter Online. According to a comment over at digg, these fonts also work on OS X. Here's the link.

[Via digg]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

otakucode said 1:49PM on 7-29-2005

Where did you get the text used as the example picture there? It sounds like the beginning of a very interesting philological theory I've never read before (not that I've done a lot of research into it)!

I would love to read the entire document from which that little quote is taken.

Jason Clarke said 1:38PM on 7-29-2005

Haha. Well the example text in the image above came from the linked article at Poynter Online. You'd have to ask them!

van said 8:55PM on 7-29-2005

Man, link's dead already :(

Busta Cap said 12:56PM on 8-02-2005

The link was live a moment ago.

Bjarke said 8:40AM on 8-01-2005

The fonts are up at http://www.uxevolutions.info/binaries/6fonts/6_New_ClearType_Fonts_Longhorn.zip

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