Beautiful New Vista Fonts Available For Download

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Beautiful New Vista Fonts Available For Download

by Jason Clarke Jul 29th 2005

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)

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!

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.

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

Man, link's dead already :(

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

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

The link was live a moment ago.

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