14 DAY TRIAL // Concomitantly with Windows Vista, Microsoft has shipped a new font family optimized for the operating system. Those of you that are already running Windows Vista might have already noticed that the fonts available are different from those you have been used in previous versions of Windows.
This is because with Vista, Microsoft has delivered the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection. A total of six different fonts have been scheduled to ship with Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
"ClearType is an unprecedented innovation in font display technology. ClearType dramatically improves font display resolution and marks a genuine breakthrough in screen readability," Microsoft revealed. Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas have indeed been integrated in Windows Vista and are the default fonts that ship with the operating system.
One relevant aspect of this Microsoft initiative is the fact that the ClearType Font Collection has been optimized to work in conjunction with the ClearType technology for rendering computer fonts. "The ClearType Font Collection is the result of a successful collaboration of designers and engineer. Every typeface from the first days of Gutenberg, had been a combination of solutions to aesthetic and technical problems; but the ClearType fonts, unlike some compromises and adaptations in modern typeface design were conceived from the outset as a marriage of technology and the best in design expertise," Microsoft added.
However, as Long Zheng has pointed out, one of the initial fonts to be included with Windows Vista is missing. Cariadings is nowhere to be found, although it is a registered Microsoft trademark for fonts as approved by the US Trademarks Office since 2004. Cariadings was created by Geraldine G. Wade as an ornamental design for a type font and was destined to replace Wingdings.