#261 – Standard Fonts in Windows 7

March 30, 2011 1 Comment

A number of fonts are installed by default in Windows 7.  Excluding fonts containing exclusively non-English characters (e.g. Arabic, Asian), the standard fonts are listed below.

  • Arial
  • Calibri
  • Cambria
  • Candara
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Consolas
  • Constantia
  • Corbel
  • Courier New
  • Ebrima
  • Franklin Gothic Medium
  • Gabriola
  • Georgia
  • Impact
  • Lucida Console
  • Lucida Sans
  • Microsoft Sans Serif
  • Palatino Linotype
  • Segoe Print
  • Segoe Script
  • Segoe UI
  • Tahoma
  • Times New Roman
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Verdana

Below are some sample sheets that show samples for each font, in four styles: Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic.  All fonts are rendered in 12 pt, on a 96 dpi monitor.

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#260 – The Concept of Fonts

March 29, 2011 Leave a comment

A typeface is a set of glyphs in a particular style, used to render characters.  A typeface is also sometimes known as a font family.

In Windows, a font is a set of glyphs defined by the combination of a typeface, font weight and font style (or slope).

A font weight dictates the thickness of the characters and includes choices like:

  • Thin
  • Extra Light / Ultra Light
  • Light
  • Normal / Regular
  • Medium
  • Demi-Bold / Semi-Bold
  • Bold
  • Extra-Bold / Ultra-Bold
  • Black / Heavy
  • Extra-Black / Ultra-Black

A font style/slope dictates the angle that the glyphs are slanted includes choices:

  • Italic
  • Normal / Regular
  • Oblique

When we combine typeface, weight and style, we then end up with different fonts, for example:

  • Cambria Regular  (normal weight and style)
  • Cambria Bold  (normal style)
  • Cambria Bold Italic
  • Cambria Italic  (normal weight)

Samples of these fonts are shown below.

 

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