Showing posts with label Typography fonts Candara Microsoft Clear Type Font Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Typography fonts Candara Microsoft Clear Type Font Collection. Show all posts

Friday, April 5, 2013

Typography

I've recently become interested in typography; the design and use of fonts, again. Especially some of the newer fonts from Microsoft included in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The so called 'C' fonts (Microsoft Clear Type Font Collection); Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Corbel and Constantia.

This collection is also distributed with the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. My special favourite is the sans-serif Candara with the non-lining numerals and small-caps. These are all full feature, OpenType fonts which are really modern designs for screen and print. I've used these fonts to improve a couple of my working documents such as price-lists and configuration examples. They are very refreshing and give a more modern appearance that the usual Arial and Times New Roman text.

I re-read a couple of my old books; The Word for Windows Print and Presentation Kit by Christine Solomon ©1992 (with 5¼" floppy disc) and Making digital type look good by Bob Gordon ©2001, which helped with basic layout principles plus kerning, tracking, leading, etc.

I've also had to remove a lot (over 150) fonts and corresponding files from my Windows 7 and later systems as they contain Arabic, Far Eastern and other languages that I don't need. This helps when you have to scroll through font lists in Word and other programs. To purchase these new 'C' fonts from a commercial supplier cost hundreds of pounds, so to have them freely available to use in the modern versions of Windows is a real bargain.