![]() ![]() At the time, Office was looking to modernize the look and feel of documents created by the Office applications. The collection of fonts introduced at this time are called the ClearType Font Collection.ΔΆ. There is an excellent blog post from the Engineering Windows 7 blog that gives additional detail on the ClearType: Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 You can learn more about that ClearType here: ClearType Overview. They do this via a technology called ClearType. To support digital consumption the new fonts were created to improve screen readability. Given we started this work in 2003 (long before Surface, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, etc.) this was a somewhat controversial opinion (more when it would happen, not if). We believed that more and more documents would never be printed but would solely be consumed on a digital device. Basically because it was geared towards digital rather than print. ![]()
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