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 | | From: | Ralph Aichinger | | Subject: | Re: HELP: Getting MSWord to use SmallCaps Font? | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:44:16 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | RSD99 wrote:
> M$ once had a "MicroSoft Typography" group, but that
> recently seems to have been abandoned or disbanded. Even
> though they tried, they (M$ Typography) were apparently not
> able to convince anyone else that doing a good job on
> typography would be beneficial to the Corporate Bottom Line.
Well I generally agree with your opinion of Microsoft negecting
typography, and therefore making our aesthetic environment so
much worse (just think about it, what the default settings in
Word mean to the way text is experienced in our world).
And I don't have the slightest insight to the internal groupings
of the "Evil Empire" (being almost exclusively a Linux user for
years) but there seems to be something in the bushes.
It seems that there is a group responsible for the ClearType
technology, that has commissioned 6 font families from some
of the world's best typographers:
Consolas and Calibri by Luc(as) de Groot
Candara by Gary Munch
Corbel by Jeremy Tankard,
Cambria by Jelle Bosma
Constantia by John Hudson
Meiryo by Eiichi Kono and Matthew Carter
see the short note at
http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fontsoftware.html
These fonts seem to be destined to be included with Longhorn
and/or one of the next Office releases. One of them (don't remember,
it was stated in some obscure Czech design mag linked off Microsoft
typography's site) is even destined to replace Times New Roman
as the new default font for Word.
These families seem to have full character sets with OSF, SmallCaps
etc.
The only problem is: I fully trust Microsoft (or some part of
Microsoft) to blow it again this time.
I have not seen even a single sample of these fonts, so if anybody
has more information, please *do* post.
There are some mentions on www.typophile.org, but I have not found
anything saying more than what I have included above.
> Therefore ... the words Micro$crew and Typography are seldom
> used positively in the same paragraph ... let alone
> together.
Unfortunately yes! If somebody already has these fonts, my
email in the header is fully functioning, and I do not mind
a few Megs in my Mailbox ; )
/ralph
--
The truth can't hurt you it's just like the dark
It scares you witless
But in time you see things clear and stark
Elvis Costello
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| | From: | Ralph Aichinger | | Subject: | Re: HELP: Getting MSWord to use SmallCaps Font? | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:48:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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| Ralph Aichinger wrote:
Ooops, just saw that I made a follow-up to a rather
prehistoric posting. No wonder this stuff was not
mentioned then (as people here seem to be very well
informed ususally ;).
New insights into this would interest me of course.
/ralph
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