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Tahoma replaced by Segoe UI

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November 28, 2005 5:24:42 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
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.
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Reply #1 November 28, 2005 5:54:30 PM
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it 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.
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Reply #2 November 28, 2005 7:18:14 PM
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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.
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Reply #3 November 28, 2005 9:27:49 PM
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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.
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Reply #4 November 28, 2005 9:51:33 PM
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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.
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Reply #5 November 29, 2005 2:50:46 AM
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its a nice typeface.. its got more personality than tohoma and has some traits that set it farther from 'just another sans-serif font'.
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Reply #6 November 29, 2005 5:28:00 AM
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i had the font - but lost it too lazy to look for it again - thought it was really nice
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Reply #7 March 13, 2006 11:27:15 PM
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Segoe UI is just a sad rip-off of a font called Frutiger. Frutiger has been around since before computers. It isn't months old, it's decades old. More here:

http://www.portlandtype.com/news/?p=59Link
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Reply #8 March 14, 2006 9:11:23 AM
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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.
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Reply #9 March 14, 2006 1:02:54 PM
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llIIllIIllII

No more problems with THAT! Whoohoo!
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