Making the Letters Better
A fresh type font look for Office 12 ...
"We're not just introducing a new UI in Office 12--we're also introducing a new UI font.
Windows 95 used "MS Sans Serif" as the UI font in Western locales. It was a straightforward font which looked fairly good, if plain, at small sizes. Office 95, as well as previous versions running on Windows 95, used this font for menus and dialog boxes.
With the UI changes happening in Windows Vista and Office 12, we felt like it was time to commission a more modern UI font, designed specifically to take advantage of ClearType. In addition, we wanted a more humanistic, friendly font that would seem less "computer-y" than Tahoma. Most importantly, we wanted the font to take advantage of the research done in Microsoft Typography over the last decade in specifically creating fonts that are easy to scan and read on-screen. These guys know their stuff, and we knew it would make a positive difference in the user interface." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"We're not just introducing a new UI in Office 12--we're also introducing a new UI font.
Windows 95 used "MS Sans Serif" as the UI font in Western locales. It was a straightforward font which looked fairly good, if plain, at small sizes. Office 95, as well as previous versions running on Windows 95, used this font for menus and dialog boxes.
With the UI changes happening in Windows Vista and Office 12, we felt like it was time to commission a more modern UI font, designed specifically to take advantage of ClearType. In addition, we wanted a more humanistic, friendly font that would seem less "computer-y" than Tahoma. Most importantly, we wanted the font to take advantage of the research done in Microsoft Typography over the last decade in specifically creating fonts that are easy to scan and read on-screen. These guys know their stuff, and we knew it would make a positive difference in the user interface." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Segoe UI Type Font.
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