

The basic charter of these groups was to acquire outlines, and produce fonts to ship with Windows. It was at that point, in the run up to the release of Windows 3.1, and the first typography group "Systems Type and Text" (STAT) was formed, later the group was renamed the Windows Accessory Group (WAG). It soon became apparent, however, that outline fonts would be the future, and Apple's TrueType outline font format was picked.

Later the bitmap fonts MS Serif and MS Sans Serif were created. Windows 2 added support for the proportional bitmap font "System". The first Windows user interface font was "SysFixed" the fixed-pitch bitmap font included with Windows 1. Microsoft licensed bitmap fonts from Bitstream, but made significant modifications to them. Microsoft originally worked with Bitstream, a company founded by former Linotype employees. Windows needed bitmap fonts for the user interface and also to represent printer-resident fonts on screen. In the beginning there really wasn't a dedicated typography group, but Microsoft was starting to make software that required fonts. History of typography at Microsoftįonts and software have always gone hand in hand, and at Microsoft in the early days that was certainly the case. Developers will find an extensive collection of articles and specifications to help them create TrueType and OpenType fonts, and develop applications that use them. We aim to bring you news of exciting developments in digital typography. The purpose of the Microsoft Typography Web site is to explain the benefits and features of OpenType and TrueType, the world's most popular digital font formats, used by millions of computer users every day. Our goal is to make text highly legible, in any language, and on any device. GNU General Public License for more details.Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType fonts by independent type vendors. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,īut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of The Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or It under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify Het Lam, program makes an ESP8266 into a wireless tally light system for ATEM switchers,īy using Kasper Skårhøj's () ATEM clinet libraries for Arduino.
