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- Function, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Calibri is an incredible font. I'd pay good money for a pro version of this. It looks really good as a display type, as well as copy. Cambria looks really good in small-caps and below 14pt.
Candara is kinda silly, it's very brush script-ish, but doesn't hold geometry well.
Corbel is kinda cool, I like the way it's decenders bend, look at the lowercase g's and the j's, it's a very modern serif indeed.
I'm very impressed Microsoft, these are some quality fonts. Now lemme buy these as whole type families! - appletalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4None of the mirrors listed on the comments work, neither does the original link.
You can use this one:
http://d.turboupload.com/d/15630/6_New_ClearType_Fonts_Longhorn.zip.html - Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cambria! what about coheed? :D
- SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These are tuned for ClearType, which could be why the come up a bit fat on OSX machines. I'm really not sure.
Calibri is my new default Sans-Serif web-viewing font, very easy on the eyes. - 6dust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"How did you do that?"
Firefox:
Tools -> Options -> General -> Fonts and Colors
IE:
Tools -> Internet Options -> General -> Fonts - GameDNA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally some decent technology out of Microsoft! I wonder how long it will take for them to have a patent on "representing spoken words as a series of symbols".
- jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2PLEASE READ:
The mirror is back up!
http://www.jakejarvis.com/archives/2005/07/31/windows-vista-fonts/ - jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The mirror has changed once again:
http://www.wirecatcher.com/archives/2005/07/31/windows-vista-fonts/
Now updated with a faster mirror. Enjoy! - gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of the fonts, Consolas, is now available for download from Microsoft.
http://blogs.msdn.com/powertoys/archive/2006/05/09/593766.aspx - onager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These fonts also work under OS X.
However, like the rest of the MS fonts, they seem sort of "fat." I mean, they are not as crisp as LaTeX's computer modern font or the nice serif fonts that come with Apple's Pages. Maybe Windows machines display them differently? - jofta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Download Microsoft’s free PowerPoint 2007 viewer and you get the Vista Fonts without Vista :)
- c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1direct font link:
http://www.uxevolutions.info/binaries/6fonts/6_New_ClearType_Fonts_Longhorn.zip - Function, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"it's a very modern serif indeed."
I meant "Sans", oops.
These fonts have nice ligatures too! - SpookyET, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buy fonts? That's just stupid, especially with the prices they are charging on them. The cheapest i've seen is $25/font. There is a good font I'd like to try called Pragmata TT. Search google for it. It's supposed to be very good for programming. The cheapest price I've seen is $108. Common, $108 for a font? That would buy me 2 Visual C# Express Editions. They are worse than the morons that sell GUI controls.
- Vector713, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Cum.
- Skettalee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice Nice Nice, I dig it for sure man. Always love some new good fonts!
- SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Where and how do you install these fonts?"
Extract the archive to a folder, then go to the Fonts Control Panel Applet, File, Install New Font ... and choose the folder that you saved them to. (Or, believe you can just drag and drop them into the Fonts Control Panel Applet.)
Simple. - indi.ca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jake Jarvis has kindly mirrored the fonts here:
http://www.jakejarvis.com/?p=327
or direct:
http://www.jakejarvis.com/images/Vista.zip - mailman-zero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These don't appear to be as well-hinted as some of the older fonts MS has used (like Book Antiqua, Verdana, etc.) freetype 2 with the bytecode interpreter enabled and antialiasing disabled renders Book Antiqua and Verdana really well because the fonts are well hinted. These new ones, while great for print just don't look very good on the screen unless antialiasing or "cleartype" is enabled. Too bad, though.
- Vagari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are some nice clean fonts in there... I hope they're open enough that people not on Windows can use them. MacIE and Office helped pass the older "web" fonts around for saturation, let's hope these can get around too.
@SpookyET - Yes a basic font can be simple and easy to build. With all those free fonts out there, it's obvious a lot of people can create them. But some type designers take years perfecting how fonts are displayed at various sizes and weights. Those are the fonts that cost a lot and designers die to have in their portfolios.
And it's not just a bunch of letters. Most professional fonts have many differrent weights and also italics in different weights. They don't leave the look of their font to the B(old) button in your applications. Now look down at the keyboard you're typing on, and then consider all the encoded entities. Even if you're just doing one font and not an entire family that's a LOT of characters. - SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Nice fonts. But if they're really the new MS fonts, why does this guy, who's not obviously an MS person, have them?"
Pulled from the Vista beta (or a Longhorn Alpha), obviously. - sharedferret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome fonts, I'm using Candiri as my default font on Firefox, and I'm using Corbel on gaim... I don't care if no one else can see it, it's still cool.
- Faisal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Where and how do you install these fonts?
- alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0love it!
- Psykus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can anyone say where exactly these fonts are being used in Vista? I'd like to try them out in Windows XP, for my UI fonts, but i'm not sure exactly where they're being used in Vista.
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0elusive - actually they are OpenType fonts, not TrueType, and this "ClearType crap" is basically antialiased edges on the fonts so they aren't jaggie on an LCD screen. No great improvement on a CRT, but definately clearer on an LCD.
- robinyang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0RE: Buying font...
Most of the customers who buy fonts are designers who use them in their projects. My impression is that they are not marketed towards regular computer users who just want a font to use for a research report. The prices are justified when the time and attention to detail needed to create a good font are taken into account, IMO. - cyberfelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Those are some nice fonts. This is great news for web designers.
- Faisal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks man
- kiseki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know why people always say ClearType does nothing for CRT. On my CRTs they make a huge difference too.
Anyway, it looks like Calibri finally unseats Verdana as my favorite screen/web font. However, I think the size differences between points aren't incremental enough. Hopefully they'll update it for more in between sizes before Vista ships. - evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is there any reason why they all start with the letter c?
- vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they are really slick....downloaded thanks
- delta4s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks for the links :)
- smithco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice fonts. But if they're really the new MS fonts, why does this guy, who's not obviously an MS person, have them?
- orange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Calibri looks a lot like Trebuchet MS to me.
- CoreBurn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I turn on cleartype on just about every computer I use, I think even on CRT's it looks better.
- jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gladly. :)
- etgreen77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone know of a mirror to that download? I totally digg, but didn't get the .zip in time...
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I don't know why people always say ClearType does nothing for CRT. On my CRTs they make a huge difference too."
I've had users complain that they make the text look blurry/fuzzy on a CRT. The dot pitch of CRTs already gives most fonts their "smoothness". It really depends on your theme scheme, colour selection, backgrounds, and resolution. Because everyone has different personal preferences, these results can vary how effective ClearType is on a CRT. - teenwolf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You can get them here: http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/consolas-as-my-new-ide-font-for-visual-studio-2005
- Bellito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These fonts are amazing… The most appealing thing here is that you can only download Consolas from MS. The rest of its nice fonts were kept to itself until now. Whoever decided to spread these through the 'net made a great decision Gates won't be happy about. Corbel looks great on my Mac, as do the rest of them. I think Corbel is my favourite.
- WulfTheSaxon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um… It's physically impossible for ClearType to work on a CRT. It operates based on the fact that LCD screens are made of red, green, and blue sub-pixels sitting next to each other. So, on an LCD, to make a white pixel, 3 subpixels must be turned on, and then the eye perceives them as one color.
ClearType just takes control of the subpixels, so it can render 3x smoother curves. (This is why the edges of some fonts look "rainbow-ish" on certain screens when ClearType is at its default settings.) Since CRTs don't have subpixels, it not physically possible for ClearType to work on them. (However, standard anti-aliasing can still do wonders on a CRT.)
There's a very detailed article on ClearType over at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
There's also an article about subpixel rendering, the underlying technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering - jakejarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great fonts! Thanks for the direct link!
- wiseowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0enjoyed the posts. am a seasoned newbie-no tech background-eager for latest greatest software. listed link does not work. is anyone willing to share by email, i.e., forward a copy?
- Never, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Me too!! codewalker@gmail.com
- sondosia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome!
- Snowdear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hi
Is there any chance to get these fonts somewhere else? I'm desperately looking for them, but they seem gone...
Can anyone mail them? That'd be kinda nice! werner.gamper@gmail.com - c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it was fun while it lasted - I just got a letter from MS's legal beagles requesting I remove the .zip from my site. Ah well...
- kaqamaqa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can you find me another mirror? please
- RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I watched the team who created these fonts give a demo of what makes them so good and I am totally sold. The new cleartype engine and these fonts will really help improve text on monitors. It's really quite amazing just how much tech has gone into designing these.
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