The Typographic Legacy of Microsoft
Microsoft isn't the first company you'd associate with typography, but their fonts have done more to democratize typesetting than any company in the last half century. Today we look at that history through 10 of their most famous and infamous fonts.
2020-07-02 19:00:00 - Linus Boman
00:00 | Microsoft's typographic legacy
00:54 | What is typography?
03:57 | Segoe UI (and Frutiger, Myriad)
08:13 | Calibri
13:02 |Core fonts for the Web
14:58 | A history of Truetype fonts
18:37 | Trebuchet MS
21:51 | Georgia
25:01 | Impact
27:18 | Verdana (and Tahoma)
32:18 | Comic Sans
34:35 | The "OG" Truetype Trinity
35:15 | Times New Roman
39:32 | Courier New
41:52 | Arial
44:42 | A legacy which endures today