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In Fonts and Web Typography
- Legally Get Vista Fonts from Microsoft, No License Required
- Font Families & Web-safe Fonts: The Point of Penultimate Resort
- Visual reference to 19 fonts for cross-platform web design
- Fonts for web design: further comparison of cross-platform dependability
- Aspect values and x-widths for fonts
- Reliability of “Web–safe” fonts
Legally Get Vista Fonts from Microsoft, No License Required
Microsoft’s contributions to web typography have taken a step forwards with the release of the Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Viewer.
Following download and installation of the viewer, the six new fonts of the ‘C’ set (Candara, Consolas, Calibri, Cambria, Constantia and Corbel) become available for use in Windows systems, completely legally.
Of course, it’s probably not quite so squeaky clean to go copying these fonts across to other platforms (Mac OSX, linux and so on) once you have them installed on Windows, but at least this move is likely to widen the distribution of these fonts among the surfing public.
This has to be a Good Thing™ since it will open up further alternatives to the common stasis in web typography that results in a vast majority of websites succumbing to arial, verdana or times new roman as their typeface of choice.
