Segoe Ui Font
A new font has been created for windows Vista and Office12 to replace the old favourites of Tahoma and Verdana :
With the UI changes happening in Windows Vista and Office 12, we felt like it was time to commission a more modern UI font, designed specifically to take advantage of ClearType. In addition, we wanted a more humanistic, friendly font that would seem less “computer-y” than Tahoma. Most importantly, we wanted the font to take advantage of the research done in Microsoft Typography over the last decade in specifically creating fonts that are easy to scan and read on-screen. These guys know their stuff, and we knew it would make a positive difference in the user interface.
The result is a font called “Segoe UI” which will ship in both Office 12 and Windows Vista. It was conceived, designed, and totally optimized for ClearType, and I think it’s beautiful at both small and larger point sizes.
The result :
Reader's Comments
December 9th, 2005 at 4:56 am
Segoe UI is a really nice font, i’ve been using it on XP and it looks amazing, looks even better when ClearType is on. I have used this font on 2000 as well which obviously doesn’t have ClearType, but it even looks amazing there too.
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