Trebuchet MS
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| Typeface | Trebuchet MS |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Classifications | Humanist sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Vincent Connare |
| Foundry | Microsoft Corporation |
| Date released | 1996 |
Trebuchet MS is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. It is named after the trebuchet, a medieval siege engine.
Microsoft refers to Trebuchet MS as “a good web design font”, and it is one of their 'Core fonts for the Web'. Trebuchet MS has been included with several Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system, components of the Office productivity suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser.
It is default font for title bars in Windows XP.
[edit] Distinguishing characteristics
Trebuchet MS distinguishes itself from other common sans-serif fonts through several characteristics, the most notable of which include:
- The splayed edges of the uppercase M which form a 10º angle with a vertical line,
- The shape of the tail of the uppercase Q,
- The shortened tails of the lowercase e and the numerals 6 and 9,
- The hybrid open and looped tail of the lowercase g,
- The rounded dots above and the shapes of the lowercase i and j,
- The curved tail beneath the lowercase l,
- The dollar sign symbol, in which the vertical strike only appears above the top and below the bottom curves of the S, and
- The exclamation point, whose dot is large and round.
In some versions of the font (those shipped with Windows 2000 and early versions of Internet Explorer), the opening quotation mark character was flipped vertically. This error was fixed in later versions.[1]
Trebuchet MS has been released with the Microsoft Windows operating system since Microsoft Windows 2000. The typeface has been released with Internet Explorer since version 4.0 and Microsoft Word since Word 2000. For further release information visit the Microsoft typography website.
[edit] External links
- Trebuchet MS font information (Microsoft typography)
- Trebuchet Nation, a short article describing the evolution of Trebuchet MS (Microsoft typography)
- Trebuchet MS downloadable executable, courtesy of the corefonts project.
