This is probably a really geeky topic, but if we’re honest with ourselves, we all have a favorite font. Maybe it’s the font you use when you write email, or the font you usually pick for a Word document. At some point, we have all chosen a typeface that looks good and feels good. Indeed, your font is a fashion statement for the web.
Vista introduces a new generation of fonts
I brought this up because I’ve been using Word and Excel 2007 a lot recently. It came bundled with my copy of Windows Vista, and today I thought to myself, “Damn, this font is sexy!” I was of course admiring Microsoft’s new Calibri font, one of six new antialiased fonts, set to replace Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, and Verdana, fonts which have dominated the web since their introduction in Windows 95.
Experimenting with Calibri
The six “C” fonts are Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel, and I’ve chosen to write this post in Calibri. Of course, if you don’t have these fonts installed on your system, you won’t notice the difference between this and my other posts.
Are you a font buff?
I’m not going to get into specifics but you can read more in the article, New Vista Fonts and the Web, and for information on downloading them and installing them on an older Windows OS, read Downloading and Using Vista Web Fonts.
What’s your favorite font?
So, until now, I have been a fan of the simple, but elegant, Verdana font, and I’m also partial to a bit of Arial. What’s your favorite font, and don’t pretend you don’t have one! 
