Microsoft Makes Beautiful Fonts

06Jun06

Microsoft does provide beautiful fonts for Windows. ~~NeoWin~~ NeoSmart Technologies gives you a preview of MS' 10 new fonts for Vista and Office 2007. Personally I love ~~Chandra~~ Candara and Corbel, really clean and modern.

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1 Andry on June 6, 2006 said:

Actually, I’ve been using Consolas for “Courier New” replacement on my IDE (Eclipse and VS.NET).

I use Candara for my blog header also. A good replacement for fixed-rounded “Tahoma” ;)
2 Ronny on June 6, 2006 said:

Yep. I just recently “switched” to Candara, too. I like Consolas, but still much prefer Monaco (from Mac OS X). For serif font, nothing beats Dolly (from Underware) yet. That’s probably why I like Candara, because it reminds me of Dolly, yet it’s still mostly sans-serif.
3 ak on June 6, 2006 said:

Where can I download Chandra?
4 Computer Guru on June 6, 2006 said:

Neowin? It’s actually NeoSmart Technologies ;)
5 ak on June 6, 2006 said:

Computer Guru: fixed. What was I thinking! Thanks for the correction, and thanks for the font review as well.
6 Ronny on June 6, 2006 said:

It’s “Candara”, not “Chandra”.

As you mentioned, these fonts are part of Vista. Although Microsoft had distributed some of their fonts for “free” in the past, I doubt they will provide downloads for these new ones.
7 ak on June 6, 2006 said:

It’s a three line post and I made soo much typos. I’m getting old.
8 Computer Guru on June 7, 2006 said:

lol, we all are.. at least I’m not getting any younger.. Thank god for ieSpell and now Firefox 3 with integrated spell-checking on the fly.
Microsoft is making these fonts freely available, just DL the 100% free Office 2007 Beta 2, copy the ttf files from /windows/fonts/ and uninstall. No laws broken… but many bent ;)
9 biela on June 9, 2006 said:

10 new fonts??

nice bLog..

nice to know u.. ;)