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Core fonts for the Web was a project started by
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
in 1996 to create a standard pack of
fonts In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design. In mode ...
for the
World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
. It included the
proprietary {{Short pages monitor


See also

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Liberation fonts Liberation is the collective name of four TrueType font families: ''Liberation Sans'', ''Liberation Sans Narrow'', ''Liberation Serif'', and ''Liberation Mono''. These fonts are metrically compatible with the most popular fonts on the Microsof ...
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Free software Unicode typefaces There are Unicode typefaces which are open-source and designed to contain glyphs of all Unicode characters, or at least a broad selection of Unicode scripts. There are also numerous projects aimed at providing only a certain script, such as the A ...


References

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External links


Former Core fonts for the Web homepage
(Courtesy of the
Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ...
)
Current Core fonts for the Web home page
which no longer provides the font files.
Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for Linux
(contains a copy of the EULA, the FAQ, and all the font packages) * An Initiative started by Andrei Herasimchuk, sends a
Open Letter to Adobe
in order to improve Web-Typography. Also Designer Jeff Croft proposes the new
Windows Vista Typefaces Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for se ...
made available in a
Open Letter to Apple and Microsoft

Web Design is 95% Typography (Part 1)
an
(Part 2)
— Two articles on web design and typography that caused controversy.
ClearType Font CollectionTypeface Descriptions & HistoriesHistory/Trends of Web Fonts (1994–2008)Google Font Directory
Digital typography Microsoft Windows multimedia technology Computer-related introductions in 1996