Web Design and Life

Thank-you Fadtastic for the article.

Office 2007 and other upcoming Microsoft Products come with 5 new type faces, and one of them is the new default font - bye bye Times New Roman. This is what all the cool kids will be using on their essays and reports next year.

Looks nice on screen or in print, but since it comes from Microsoft - you have to pay for it if you want it on your Mac or Linux computer. BLECH!@

This would be a great opportunity for Microsoft to make some friends - web designers are getting tired of using the same 4 fonts on every page. If Microsoft would give these fonts away for use on other operating systems, we’d have a whole bunch of new fonts to use on the web. Not going to happen. None of the other new MS fonts are as nice as Lucida Grande. It would be cool if it was released freely as well, but it would never attain the same circulation as the 5 new fonts that will - they’ll be included with some of the most popular software out there.

Microsoft, you’ve got the power to change the face of the web with these fonts. Please share!

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