{"id":7395,"date":"2005-03-16T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/16\/microoft-back-in-the-font-business.html"},"modified":"2005-03-16T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T14:57:36","slug":"microoft_back_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/microoft_back_i.html","title":{"rendered":"Micro$oft back in the font business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the Win95\/Off95\/IE4 days, M$ started shipping with its systems (and making available on its website<\/a>) some fine fonts optimized for screen display, to be used for web design mostly. It was nice, because the alternative (especially for web page design) was Arial\/Helvetica and Times Roman. Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Georgia, Comic Sans, Arial Black, Impact — they might not have been the greatest thing going, but they beat the alternative (sort of like Windows itself).<\/p>\n

Then in 2002, M$<\/a> got out<\/a> of the biz<\/a>, for a variety of reasons<\/a> (including because folks were downloading and using them on Linux<\/a>, it seems). While various bits<\/a> can still be found online, those foundational web fonts are now restricted to being passed on from site to site, install to install, like some sort of oral tradition.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems, that M$ is getting back into the font business<\/a>, with a new set, and a more stringent license regime. Which is keen, but I sort of wish they were using the “old” ones in the list, too. Further Balkanization of presentation models is not what the Web needs right now.<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the Win95\/Off95\/IE4 days, M$ started shipping with its systems (and making available on its website) some fine fonts optimized for screen display, to be used for web design…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8982,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/11\/fonts_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":7395,"position":0},"title":"Fonts","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 11-Mar-06 9:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting point made here: There is something absurd about typography on the web. 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