Segoe ( ) is a

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, or family of

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s, that is best known for its use 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 ...

. The company uses Segoe in its online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products. Additionally, the Segoe UI font sub-family is used by numerous Microsoft applications, and may be installed by applications (such as

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and Windows Live Messenger 2009). It was adopted as Microsoft's default operating system font beginning with

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, and is also used on outlook.com, Microsoft's web-based email service. In August 2012, Microsoft unveiled its new corporate logo typeset in Segoe, replacing the logo it had used for the previous 25 years. The Segoe name is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, although the typeface was originally developed by

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History

Segoe was designed by Steve Matteson during his employment at Agfa Monotype. Licensed to Microsoft for use as a branding typeface and user interface font, it was designed to be friendly and legible. Matteson created a range of weights and italics with a

humanist Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "humani ...

feel.

Licensing controversy

In 2004, Microsoft registered certain Segoe and Segoe Italic fonts as original font designs with the

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trademark and design office. The German font foundry Linotype protested, citing Segoe UI's similarity to its licensed '' Frutiger'' family of typefaces. In its submission to the EU, Microsoft claimed that Linotype had failed to prove that it had been selling ''Frutiger'' and ''Frutiger Next'' prior to 2004. The EU rejected these claims, and in February 2006, the EU revoked Microsoft's registration. Microsoft did not appeal the decision. Microsoft still holds United States design patents for various Segoe-based fonts. During the same period, in late 2004, after six years under the Agfa Corporation, the Monotype assets were acquired by

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and the company was incorporated as

Monotype Imaging Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with ...

. Later, in August 2006,

acquired Linotype. So at the end of 2006, Linotype, the company that had challenged the validity of Microsoft's Segoe patents, was a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype, the company that had originally licensed Segoe to Microsoft. Segoe vs Frutiger

Several letters have distinctly different forms in Segoe UI and Frutiger, reflecting Segoe UI's different intended use: low-resolution screen display, rather than airport signage (Frutiger). However, Ulrich Stiehl asserts that many of these differences were introduced in later versions of Segoe UI – earlier versions of Segoe UI were closer to Frutiger. On June 7, 2005, Scala, an electronic signage company (unrelated to the typeface

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), announced that Segoe was being removed from its InfoChannel product "due to licensing issues". Scala replaced Segoe with

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fonts. In November 2005, Simon Daniels, a program manager in Microsoft's typography group, stated that "The original Segoe fonts were not created for or by Microsoft. It was an existing Monotype design which we licensed and extensively extended and customized to meet the requirements of different processes, apps and devices." In April 2006, a Microsoft public relations spokesperson, who asked not to be named, stated:

Segoe was an original design developed by Agfa Monotype (now Monotype Imaging) in 2000. In 2003, we acquired the original Segoe fonts and used them to develop an extended family of fonts retaining the Segoe name. Many of these new fonts received design patent protection in the United States. Segoe was not derived from Frutiger. Microsoft also has a current up-to-date license that allows us to distribute certain Frutiger fonts in connection with Microsoft products, including Office and Windows. There are distinct differences between Segoe and Frutiger. Additionally, unlike clone typefaces, the Segoe family of fonts are not metrically compatible with Frutiger so cannot be used as replacements.

Under United States copyright law, the abstract letter shapes of functional text fonts cannot be copyrighted; only the computer programming code in a font is given copyright protection. This makes the production and distribution of clone fonts possible. An early version of Segoe, possibly an evaluation version, was included with certain versions of SuSE Linux, but no longer ships as part of that operating system.

Segoe UI

Segoe UI ''("User Interface")'' is a member of the Segoe family used in Microsoft products for user interface text, as well as for some online user assistance material, intended to improve the consistency in how users see all text across all languages. It is distinguishable from its predecessor Tahoma and the

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user interface font

Lucida Grande Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It is best known for its implementation throughout the macOS user interface from 1999 to 2014, as ...

by its rounder letters. Segoe UI was produced by Monotype Imaging. Light and Semibold versions of Segoe UI were introduced with Windows 7.

I remember the team creating a special ligature in the Segoe UI font (used in Windows) to make "S" and "t" align beautifully for the word "Start".

says Jensen Harris, former Director of User Experience at Microsoft. Segoe UI Revision Differences

In Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11, Segoe UI has undergone a number of changes and stylistic additions: * A Semilight version was introduced in order to make a perfect lightweight down to 11 pixels. * True italic variants were introduced for the Light, Semilight, and Semibold weights. * The Light and Semibold versions have been tuned for better quality for screen reading. * Typography design changes were made that closely resemble the Segoe WP font family with similarities to Linotype Frutiger. Between Windows Vista and Windows 7, changes were made to the letters “I” and “Q”, and the digits 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8. * Additional scripts and character sets are supported, such as Arabic, Armenian, Georgian (

Mkhedruli The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written hor ...

and

Khutsuri The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written ho ...

), Hebrew, and

Fraser alphabet The Fraser or Old Lisu script is an artificial abugida invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar and improved by the missionary James O. Fraser, to write the Lisu language. It is a single- case (unicameral) alphabet. It ...

(Lisu). * OpenType variants were included. In

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, Segoe UI gained Black and Black Italic weights, but only for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.

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introduced Segoe UI Variable which has display, text, and small faces designed for specific font sizes. The glyphs have been redrawn moving away from the humanist design in favour of a more geometric look.

Characteristics

Segoe UI is optimized for Vista's default

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rendering environment, and it is significantly less legible when ClearType is disabled, except at key user interface sizes (8, 9 and 10 point) where Segoe UI has been hinted for bi-level rendering. The standard font size increased to 9 point in Windows Vista to accommodate for better layout and readability for all languages. The Windows Vista version of Segoe UI (version 5.00) contains complete Unicode 4.1 coverage for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic (Romans only), totaling 2843 glyphs in the regular weight. Segoe UI uses distinct cursive

italic script Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy. It is one of the most popular styles used in contemporary ...

, whereas Frutiger and

Helvetica Helvetica (originally Neue Haas Grotesk) is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, one influenced by the famous 19th century (1890s) ...

use

oblique type Oblique type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used for the same purposes as italic type. Unlike italic type, however, it does not use different glyph shapes; it uses the same glyphs as roman type, except slanted. Oblique and it ...

for italics.

Variations

* ''Segoe UI Mono'' is a variation of Segoe UI with

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characters. It supports Latin (including Eastern European, and Turkish), Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Thai characters, and symbols, geometric shapes and drawing elements. The family includes two fonts in two weights, without italics. It is the system kernel font for Windows 8 and above. * ''Segoe UI Symbol'' is a new font added in

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that includes new scripts/symbols such as

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and Deseret, and, previously,

Ogham Ogham ( Modern Irish: ; mga, ogum, ogom, later mga, ogam, label=none ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish langu ...

and

Runic Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...

glyphs. It is not, however, a "symbol charset-encoded font" (like MS Symbol), but rather it is a Unicode-encoded font with symbols assigned to respective Unicode code points. Segoe UI Symbol also has some other miscellaneous symbols such as

chess piece A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either White and Black in chess, white or black, and it can be one of six types: King (chess), king, Queen (chess), queen, Rook (chess ...

s, playing card and dice symbols (these glyphs formed the basis of the Segoe Chess and Segoe News Symbols fonts),

box-drawing character Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. Box-drawing characters typically only work well with monospaced fonts. In ...

s, block elements, technical symbols, mathematical operators, arrows, control pictures, and OCR-optimized glyphs. In

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, Segoe UI Symbol was extended to support

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script (, , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica. He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzan ...

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

, Old Italic and

Old Turkic Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic language, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of the Turkic languages, found in Göktürks, Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganate inscriptions dating from about the eighth to the 13th century. It ...

(Orkhon) scripts, all now moved to Segoe UI Historic. In

, it gained support for Meroitic Cursive (now moved to Segoe UI Historic) and Coptic script (found in both fonts). The updated Segoe UI Symbol from Windows 8 has also been

backport Backporting is the action of taking parts from a newer version of a software system or software component and porting them to an older version of the same software. It forms part of the maintenance step in a software development process, and it is ...

ed to Windows 7. * ''Segoe UI Historic'' is a new font added in

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to support ancient scripts. Glagolitic, Gothic, Meroitic Cursive, Ogham, Old Italic,

, and Runic were moved from Segoe UI Symbol to Segoe UI Historic. Additionally supported are

Brahmi Brahmi (; ; ISO 15919, ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system of ancient South Asia. "Until the late nineteenth century, the script of the Aśokan (non-Kharosthi) inscriptions and its immediate derivatives was referred to by various names such ...

Carian The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The Carian language was spoken in Caria, a region of western Anatolia between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, ...

Coptic Coptic may refer to: Afro-Asia * Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya * Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century * Coptic alphabet ...

Cypriot Cypriot (in older sources often "Cypriote") refers to someone or something of, from, or related to the country of Cyprus. * Cypriot people, or of Cypriot descent; this includes: **Armenian Cypriots **Greek Cypriots **Maronite Cypriots **Turkish C ...

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(except for phallic ones since v 1.01),

Imperial Aramaic Imperial Aramaic is a linguistic term, coined by modern scholars in order to designate a specific historical variety of Aramaic language. The term is polysemic, with two distinctive meanings, wider (sociolinguistic) and narrower (dialectological ...

Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Pahlavi is the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, and is evident in clay fragments that have been dated to the reign of Mithridates I (''r.'' 171–138 BC). Other early evidence includes the Pahlavi inscriptions of Arsacid ...

Inscriptional Parthian Inscriptional Parthian is a script used to write Parthian language on coins of Parthia from the time of Arsaces I of Parthia (250 BC). It was also used for inscriptions of Parthian (mostly on clay fragments) and later Sassanian periods (mostly on ...

Kharosthi The Kharoṣṭhī script, also spelled Kharoshthi (Kharosthi: ), was an ancient Indo-Iranian script used by various Aryan peoples in north-western regions of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely around present-day northern Pakistan and ...

, Lycian, Lydian,

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, South Arabian, Phoenician,

Shavian The Shavian alphabet (; also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of English orthography, conventional spelling using the E ...

, Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform,

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(ʾEsṭrangēlā style), and

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scripts. * ''Segoe Boot'' is a vertically stretched font based on Segoe. Its vertical stretching allows the font to be rendered as the normal version when a 4:3 image (like the

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screen) is stretched to fill a screen with an aspect ratio of 16:9. It is included in the Windows 10 installation ISO. * ''Zegoe UI'' is a

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-specific variation on Segoe. * In

, Microsoft added unofficial color support to fonts, first implemented in the ''Segoe UI

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'' font. As of Windows 10, this has been formally supported with UWP applications natively using DirectWrite/Direct2D for text rendering with color font support, and first-class emoji support including an emoji keyboard included in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. * ''Segoe UI Variable'' is a

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added in

. The font is designed to scale better with monitors with a higher amount of

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, which previous versions of Segoe UI did not account for.

Availability

* The Segoe UI font family can be obtained as part of Windows and Windows Server operating systems: ** The classic Segoe UI design is included with

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and

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. ***Certain Segoe fonts, but not Segoe UI, were included in

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2005, replacing

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and Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 were also install certain Segoe fonts. ***Segoe UI is installed into

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and

Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 is the sixth version of Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on March 28, 2003 and generally available on April 24, 2 ...

if the user installs

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. ** The newer Segoe UI design is included with

(Developer Preview since build 8130),

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and

. *** ''Segoe UI Variable'' is also included with

. * A semilight version of Segoe UI is installed into

and

if the user installs

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Other Segoe fonts

Segoe Script sample-cat article Wikipedia

Other members of the Segoe family include: * ''Segoe Print'' is a font family based on the handwriting of Monotype Imaging employee Brian Allen, developed by Carl Crossgrove, James Grieshaber and Karl Leuthold. The family includes 2 fonts in 2 weights, without italics. It supports WGL character sets. It is included with Windows Vista and later. It is famously used as a default font for titles in

Windows Movie Maker Windows Movie Maker (known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 2009 and 2011 releases) is a discontinued video editing software program by Microsoft. It was first included in Windows Me on September 14, 2000 and in Windows XP on October 25, 2001 ...

. * ''Segoe Script'' is a font family designed by Carl Crossgrove, based on the handwriting of Brian Allen, but includes extended strokes found in cursive handwriting. It is produced by Monotype Imaging. By using the stylistic alternate OpenType feature, the unlinked letters become accessible. The family includes 2 fonts in 2 weights, without italics. It supports WGL character sets. It is included with Windows Vista and later. * ''Segoe Chess'' is a symbol encoded chess font, designed by Steve Matteson and Jim Ford. Segoe Chess 1.00 is included with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. * ''Segoe Media Center'' is a font family built for and privately installed with

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in 2 weights: light and semibold. It resembles the original Segoe, but is not optimized for

rendering. * ''Segoe TV'' is a font family built into

MSN TV MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The device design and service was developed by ...

set-top-boxes. It retains characteristics of the original Segoe, such as sans-serif capital I and straight tail in capital Q, whereas other characters have been redrawn such as the i and j. * ''Segoe WP'' is the

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specific version of Segoe. The Segoe WP family is distributed with

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2010. Currently, only a release candidate beta version is available (March 2010). *''Segoe Fluent Icons'' was added to Windows 10 in 2021 to display images via the font face. At one time, Microsoft also posted a package called ''Print Ad for Microsoft Dynamics Business Management Solutions Brief Description'' to the Microsoft downloads center. The package included TrueType and PostScript Type 1 beta versions of the Segoe branding fonts along with PowerPoint templates and marketing material. Windows Phones also include a more customized version called Segoe WP N which is designed with more clarity and narrow to enhance their take on ClearType. * ''Segoe Pro'' is a custom font used by Microsoft and its affiliates for branding. Segoe Pro contains the same glyphs that Segoe UI does, only that it has specific emojis of Microsoft products attached as well. Segoe Pro comes in Black, Bold, Condensed, Display, Semibold and Semilight, along with their italic versions of each. * ''Segoe Slab'' is a custom font which can be found if the user extracts the Windows SDK.apk (Android app package). The font file is named 'SegoeSlabWP-Semilight.ttf'. * ''Segoe Xbox Symbol'' is a font developed specifically for the Xbox 360. It comes in 2 weights: Regular and Bold. These fonts can be extracted from the Xbox Android app. Other versions of this font include 'Segoe X Symbol' and 'Segoe Xbox MDL2 Assets'. * ''Skype UI Symbol'' is a font, similar to Segoe Xbox Symbol, however comprises the Latin script from Segoe UI. It comes in 2 weights, Regular and Bold. It can be extracted from the Skype app for Android. * ''Segoe MDL2 Assets'' is an iconography font for use on Windows 10's UWP apps. * ''Segoe Fluent Icons'' is the newest iconography font for use on Windows 10's UWP apps which will be the successor to the MDL2 Assets. It was introduced in Windows 10 build 21327. * '' Nirmala'' is an extension of Segoe that includes Indian script characters. * ''

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'' is an extension of Segoe that includes

Chinese characters Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...

and

Japanese kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequent ...

. * ''

Malgun Gothic Malgun Gothic () is a Korean sans-serif typeface developed by Sandoll Communications, with hinting by Monotype Imaging, as a replacement of Dotum and Gulim as the default system font for the Korean language version of Windows Vista. It was firs ...

'' is an extension of Segoe that includes Hangul characters.

Related fonts

Microsoft released Selawik as a

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Segoe UI replacement, and Symbols as a Segoe UI Symbols and Segoe MDL2 Assets fall-back, under

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in 2015. These fonts are used in WinJS and Winstrap. Selawik is also one of Microsoft's recommended fonts for

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apps.

The Latin glyphs from Segoe and Segoe UI can also be found in the following Microsoft font families:

(

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

Microsoft JhengHei Microsoft JhengHei (微軟正黑體) is a sans-serif typeface included in Windows Vista and later and Microsoft Office 2007. It follows the Standard Form of National Characters prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Tai ...

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Traditional Chinese A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or ...

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Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...

), Gisha (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

), Leelawadee (

Thai Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block ...

). In Windows 7, they are also found in Ebrima (

N'Ko N'Ko () is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Mandé languages of West Africa. The term ''N'Ko'', which means ''I say'' in all Mandé languages, is also used for the Mandé literary standard written i ...

Tifinagh Tifinagh ( Tuareg Berber language: or , ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuare ...

, Vai), Khmer UI ( Khmer), Lao UI ( Lao), Microsoft New Tai Lue ( Tai Lue), Microsoft PhagsPa ( Phags-pa), Microsoft Tai Le ( Tai Le). In these fonts, some of the glyph shapes diverge significantly from Segoe UI and the Frutiger / Myriad model and are in some ways more calligraphic. In Gisha and Leelawadee, the capital ‘M’ is narrower, and has a raised apex, the lowercase ‘i’ and ‘l’ have tails, and the capital ‘I’ has no serifs. These characteristics are also seen in Segoe UI italic.

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References

External links

* Microsoft Typography
Segoe ChessSegoe PrintSegoe ScriptSegoe UISegoe UI Book

Cleartype gallery
{{Microsoft Windows Typefaces

Segoe UI Segoe ( ) is a typeface, or family of fonts, that is best known for its use by Microsoft. The company uses Segoe in its online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products. Additionally, the Segoe UI font su ...

Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2004 Humanist sans-serif typefaces IPA typefaces Typefaces designed by Steve Matteson Corporate typefaces Microsoft franchises