ProNet: Verdana Meets Its Match (from: Anil)
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One area that nearly everyone agrees that Microsoft excels in is the typefaces they distribute to web users. Poynter Online shows us the future of Microsoft’s font collection with screenshots of the new family of fonts expected to be released with Microsoft’s new products next year.
If you need a copy of the existing core web fonts that Microsoft has made available, you can get them from SourceForge, and if you’re looking for other widely-distributable fonts to design for, you’ll want to consider the Bitstream Vera family, which is made available under an open-source license.
Of course, you’ll want to define a smart set of default values if your preferred fonts aren’t available, but at least there’s hope for improvements in typography for many users in the future.