Tahoma replaced by Segoe UI
Monday, November 28, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Betanews is reporting that Microsoft has developed a new font called Segoe UI. This isn't really news to many of you but what was news to us is that Microsoft actually optimized this new font for clear-type and that previous fonts were not similarly optimized.
GreenReaper
Reply #2 Monday, November 28, 2005 7:18 PM
Reply #2 Monday, November 28, 2005 7:18 PM
For those who might think fonts aren't news - consider how much time you spend reading things. How much would you be willing to spend for that to be even a few percent faster? It's your life, after all. 
thomassen
Reply #3 Monday, November 28, 2005 9:27 PM
You had it probably since Longhorn/Vista started leaking. I got mine through the Arrow skin here. And for a font, a fw months is pretty new.
The thing about Segoe UI is that it's optimized for ClearType. I got some more info about the font that I'll post soon. It's an impressive amount of work done on it.
Reply #3 Monday, November 28, 2005 9:27 PM
| t ain't a new font, i've had that font for like months it not too bad either. I got sick of boaring Tahoma after all these years. |
You had it probably since Longhorn/Vista started leaking. I got mine through the Arrow skin here. And for a font, a fw months is pretty new.
The thing about Segoe UI is that it's optimized for ClearType. I got some more info about the font that I'll post soon. It's an impressive amount of work done on it.
Izzee
Reply #4 Monday, November 28, 2005 9:51 PM
Reply #4 Monday, November 28, 2005 9:51 PM
nice work done on it. i had the font on a very early Longhorn transform pack thing which i uninstalled but the font was still there.
DesignCaddy
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:50 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:50 AM
its a nice typeface.. its got more personality than tohoma and has some traits that set it farther from 'just another sans-serif font'.
gfcentral002
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:28 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:28 AM
i had the font - but lost it 
too lazy to look for it again - thought it was really nice
too lazy to look for it again - thought it was really nice
Adamness
Reply #8 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:11 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:11 AM
That's kind of funny. There are differences, like in the capital 'S,' but they are pretty close.
It's not uncommon for someone to take an existing font and tweak it a little though and slap a new name on it.
I read about this on Wikipedia a few days ago. Linotype (a type foundry) apparantly is protesting Segoe even being used in Vista.
Wonder what will happen.
It's not uncommon for someone to take an existing font and tweak it a little though and slap a new name on it.
I read about this on Wikipedia a few days ago. Linotype (a type foundry) apparantly is protesting Segoe even being used in Vista.
Wonder what will happen.
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Reply #1 Monday, November 28, 2005 5:54 PM