Calibri

Infobox font


name = Calibri
style = Sans-serif
date = 2005
creator = Lucas de Groot
foundry = Microsoft
sample = |

Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.

In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Microsoft Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.

Calibri was designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsoft to take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType rendering technology.

In a survey conducted by researchers at Wichita State University, Calibri was the most popular font for e-mail, instant messaging, and PowerPoint presentations. It also ranked highly for use in website text. [cite web|url=http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/PersonalityofFonts.asp|title=Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses]

Characteristics

The subtle rounded stems and corners, which are visible at larger sizes, create a warm and soft character. The typeface includes characters from Latin, Latin extended, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts. OpenType features include small caps, subscripts and superscripts, and extra ligatures.

As with other sans-serif ClearType Collection fonts, it includes unique italic type features.

Availability

The typeface is distributed with Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac It can also be downloaded from Microsoft for Microsoft Windows 2000. It is not available for Microsoft Windows XP.

The typeface – along with Candara, Consolas, Cambria, Constantia, and Corbel – is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer [ [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Viewer] ] and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. [ [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack] ]

The retail version of the typeface is sold by Ascender Corporation, as well as by Monotype Imaging in MicroType format as part of the Vista 8 Font Set package.

Awards

Calibri won the TDC2 2005 award under the Type System category. [ [http://www.tdc.org/news/2005Results/index.html TDC2 2005: Winning Entries] ]

References

External links

*cite web|last=An Wagener|first=Anne|authorlink= |coauthors= | date=2005-03-04 |url=http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
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* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx Microsoft ClearType Font Collection] at Microsoft Typography
* [http://www.ascendercorp.com/ctfonts.html Microsoft ClearType Font Collection] at Ascender Corporation
* [http://www.monotypeimaging.com/ProductsServices/mti_vista8.aspx MTI/Vista 8 Font Set List]