Skeena is ideal for body text in long documents, as well as in shorter passages often found in presentations, brochures, tables, and reports. John : Skeena is a fresh take on sans serif, a genre that has been dominated in the past decade by neo-grotesques and geometrics. We wanted to create a humanist sans serif with generous proportions and a higher than usual stroke contrast also known as the variation in weight between thick and thin parts of the letter.
Because Microsoft wanted us to design for both text and display fonts, I decided we should use the latter to push the stroke contrast further. The display fonts, used at larger sizes, while clearly related to the text fonts, have a more dramatic impact. Paul : I find a typeface begins as either a mental picture that takes a visual form or an abstract idea that is given life by constantly assessing its forms against the abstract idea.
Because the ask for a humanist sans was fairly open, I wanted to cherry-pick from multiple typographic periods and force them to work together. I chose elements that I found challenging to appreciate aesthetically; for example, I like high contrast san serifs. These can be unsightly and too brittle to work effectively at small sizes in digital environments, which is why they tend to be associated with luxury branding and opulence. Seaford is a sans serif typeface that is rooted in the design of old-style serif text typefaces and evokes their comfortable familiarity.
Its gently organic and asymmetric forms help reading by emphasizing the differences between letters, thus creating more recognizable word shapes. Tobias : At the start there was just a broad description of a personality—comfortable, warm, inviting, animated—so we began by studying the overall movement of old-style serifed faces. We hoped to create the same, familiar kind of warmth, but without the serifs.
And since most of the running text is set in lowercase, the earliest drafts focused on the lowercase branches, bowls, and terminals, tracking how those elements would relate across the various styles.
And when it comes to italics, it turns out there are parallels between chair ergonomics and typography: rather than inflating it and making it softer, trust the rigid moments that are good for your back. Grandview is a sans serif typeface derived from classic German road and railway signage, which was designed to be legible at a distance and under poor conditions. Microsoft launched its most well-known logo on February 26, , and since then, has been cherished by many.
Up until , multiple variations of this logo was on Microsoft's website and was used on the website even after the variant below was introduced. It was designed by Scott Baker. On July 22, , a new tagline, "Be What's Next. This logo was never used on Microsoft's website, having the previous logo until a completely different logo replaced it temporarily.
Microsoft launched its new logo on August 23, , which includes four squares with the colors of Office , Xbox , Windows and Bing. This happened around the time Windows 8 launched, which changed its usual colors to a single blue, so the old Windows colors were brought to the Microsoft logo. This logo was also used on their website. Although this logo cannot be completely current, a similar one has featured in Windows 95 commercials from the mids, as well as the now-defunct physical Microsoft Store 's original logo from Office Mac Online.
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In his own words, Scott sheds some light on his inspiration:. The use of a much bolder, title-cased wordmark represented the most notable departure from previous logos.
On August 23, a much anticipated new brand was launched. Rather than hire a firm or tap in-house designers, this logo was the result of a collective brainstorming amongst many employees. According to Microsoft:. The logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand value, fonts and colors.
These packages are designed around the different scripts that fonts are primarily intended to support, and most are installed automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings for example, by enabling a keyboard.
The following is a list of desktop font sets that are present in the most updated version , May release of Windows Here's a comprehensive listing of which font families are included with each of the optional font features. Some font families may include multiple fonts for different weights and styles. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info.
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