Figure 7-6: Some important characters and symbols in Unicode. You can enter these characters in Windows XP and Windows Vista by holding down the Alt key, typing the decimal number on the numeric keypad (with NumLock on), and releasing Alt. Leading zeros in the hex numbers are optional. Dec Hex 0161 00a 1 0165 00a 5 0166 00a 6 0167 00a 7 0168 00a 8 0169 00a 9 0170 00a a 0171 00a b 0172 00a c 0173 00a d 0174 00a e 0175 00a f 0176 00b 0 0177 00b 1 0178 00b 2 0179 00b 3 0180 00b 4 0181 00b 5 0182 00b 6 0183 00b 7 0184 00b 8 0185 00b 9 0186 00b a 0187 00b b 0188 00b c 0189 00b d 0190 00b e 0191 00b f 0192 00c 0 0193 00c 1 0194 00c 2 0195 00c 3 0196 00c 4 0197 00c 5 0198 00c 6 0199 00c 7 0200 00c 8 0201 00c 9 0202 00c a 0203 00c b 0204 00c c Dec Hex 0205 00c d 0206 00c e 0207 00c f 0209 00d 1 0210 00d 2 0211 00d 3 0212 00d 4 0213 00d 5 0214 00d 6 0215 00d 7 0216 00d 8 0217 00d 9 0218 00d a 0219 00d b 0220 00d c 0221 00d d 0223 00d f 0224 00e 0 0225 00e 1 0226 00e 2 0227 00e 3 0228 00e 4 0229 00e 5 0230 00e 6 0231 00e 7 0232 00e 8 0233 00e 9 0234 00e a 0235 00e b 0236 00e c 0237 00e d 0238 00e e 0239 00e f 0240 00f 0 0241 00f 1 0242 00f 2 0243 00f 3 0244 00f 4 0245 00f 5 0246 00f 6 0247 00f 7 Dec Hex 0248 00f 8 0249 00f 9 0250 00f a 0251 00f b 0252 00f c 0253 00f d 0255 00f f 256 0100 257 0101 258 0102 259 0103 262 0106 263 0107 264 0108 265 0109 266 010a 267 010b 268 010c 269 010d 270 010e 271 010f 274 0112 275 0113 276 0114 277 0115 278 0116 279 0117 282 011a 283 011b 284 011c 285 011d 286 011e 287 011f 288 0120 289 0121 290 0122 292 0124 293 0125 296 0128 297 0129 298 012a Dec Hex 299 012b 300 012c 301 012d 304 0130 305 0131 308 0134 309 0135 310 0136 311 0137 313 0139 314 013a 315 013b 316 013c 317 013d 318 013e 321 0141 322 0142 323 0143 324 0144 325 0145 326 0146 327 0147 328 0148 332 014c 333 014d 334 014e 335 014f 336 0150 337 0151 338 0152 339 0153 340 0154 341 0155 342 0156 343 0157 344 0158 345 0159 346 015a 347 015b 348 015c 349 015d Dec Hex 350 015e 351 015f 352 0160 353 0161 354 0162 355 0163 356 0164 357 0165 360 0168 361 0169 362 016a 363 016b 364 016c 365 016d 366 016e 367 016f 368 0170 369 0171 372 0174 373 0175 374 0176 375 0177 376 0178 377 0179 378 017a 379 017b 380 017c 381 017d 382 017e 461 01c d 462 01c e 463 01c f 464 01d 0 465 01d 1 466 01d 2 467 01d 3 468 01d 4 482 01e 2 483 01e 3 486 01e 6 487 01e 7 Dec Hex 488 01e 8 489 01e 9 496 01f 0 500 01f 4 501 01f 5 508 01f c 509 01f d 711 02c 7 713 02c 9 728 02d 8 729 02d 9 730 02d a 733 02d d 768 0300 769 0301 770 0302 771 0303 772 0304 774 0306 775 0307 776 0308 778 030a 779 030b 780 030c 803 0323 807 0327 817 0331 824 0338 864 0360 865 0361 913 0391 914 0392 915 0393 916 0394 917 0395 918 0396 919 0397 920 0398 921 0399 922 039a 923 039b ࡗ 180 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 180 Figure 7-6 (continued) Dec Hex 924 039c 925 039d 926 039e 927 039f 928 03a 0 929 03a 1 931 03a 3 932 03a 4 933 03a 5 934 03a 6 935 03a 7 936 03a 8 937 03a 9 938 03a a 939 03a b 945 03b 1 946 03b 2 947 03b 3 948 03b 4 949 03b 5 950 03b 6 951 03b 7 952 03b 8 953 03b 9 954 03b a 955 03b b 956 03b c 957 03b d 958 03b e 959 03b f 960 03c 0 961 03c 1 962 03c 2 963 03c 3 964 03c 4 965 03c 5 966 03c 6 967 03c 7 968 03c 8 969 03c 9 977 03d 1 Dec Hex 978 03d 2 981 03d 5 982 03d 6 988 03d c 1008 03f 0 1009 03f 1 1025 0401 1026 0402 1028 0404 1029 0405 1030 0406 1032 0408 1033 0409 1034 040a 1035 040b 1039 040f 1040 0410 1041 0411 1042 0412 1043 0413 1044 0414 1045 0415 1046 0416 1047 0417 1048 0418 1049 0419 1050 041a 1051 041b 1052 041c 1053 041d 1054 041e 1055 041f 1056 0420 1057 0421 1058 0422 1059 0423 1060 0424 1061 0425 1062 0426 1063 0427 1064 0428 Dec Hex 1065 0429 1066 042a 1067 042b 1068 042c 1069 042d 1070 042e 1071 042f 1072 0430 1073 0431 1074 0432 1075 0433 1076 0434 1077 0435 1078 0436 1079 0437 1080 0438 1081 0439 1082 043a 1083 043b 1084 043c 1085 043d 1086 043e 1087 043f 1088 0440 1089 0441 1090 0442 1091 0443 1092 0444 1093 0445 1094 0446 1095 0447 1096 0448 1097 0449 1098 044a 1099 044b 1100 044c 1101 044d 1102 044e 1103 044f 1105 0451 1106 0452 Dec Hex 1108 0454 1109 0455 1110 0456 1112 0458 1113 0459 1114 045a 1115 045b 1119 045f 1122 0462 1123 0463 1138 0472 1139 0473 1140 0474 1141 0475 1217 04c 1 1218 04c 2 1232 04d 0 1233 04d 1 1234 04d 2 1235 04d 3 1238 04d 6 1239 04d 7 1244 04d c 1245 04d d 1246 04d e 1247 04d f 1250 04e 2 1251 04e 3 1252 04e 4 1253 04e 5 1254 04e 6 1255 04e 7 1262 04e e 1263 04e f 1264 04f 0 1265 04f 1 1266 04f 2 1267 04f 3 1268 04f 4 1269 04f 5 1272 04f 8 Dec Hex 1273 04f 9 7682 1e02 7683 1e03 7684 1e04 7685 1e05 7690 1e0a 7691 1e0b 7692 1e0c 7693 1e0d 7696 1e10 7697 1e11 7710 1e1e 7711 1e1f 7712 1e20 7713 1e21 7714 1e22 7715 1e23 7716 1e24 7717 1e25 7718 1e26 7719 1e27 7720 1e28 7721 1e29 7728 1e30 7729 1e31 7730 1e32 7731 1e33 7734 1e36 7735 1e37 7742 1e3e 7743 1e3f 7744 1e40 7745 1e41 7746 1e42 7747 1e43 7748 1e44 7749 1e45 7750 1e46 7751 1e47 7764 1e54 7765 1e55 Dec Hex 7766 1e56 7767 1e57 7768 1e58 7769 1e59 7770 1e5a 7771 1e5b 7776 1e60 7777 1e61 7778 1e62 7779 1e63 7786 1e6a 7787 1e6b 7788 1e6c 7789 1e6d 7804 1e7c 7805 1e7d 7806 1e7e 7807 1e7f 7808 1e80 7809 1e81 7810 1e82 7811 1e83 7812 1e84 7813 1e85 7814 1e86 7815 1e87 7816 1e88 7817 1e89 7818 1e8a 7819 1e8b 7820 1e8c 7821 1e8d 7822 1e8e 7823 1e8f 7824 1e90 7825 1e91 7826 1e92 7827 1e93 7831 1e97 7832 1e98 7833 1e99 ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Chapter 7: Fonts ࡗ 181 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 181 Figure 7-6 (continued) Dec Hex 7840 1ea0 7841 1ea1 7864 1eb8 7865 1eb9 7868 1ebc 7869 1ebd 7882 1eca 7883 1ecb 7884 1ecc 7885 1ecd 7908 1ee4 7909 1ee5 7922 1ef 2 7923 1ef 3 7924 1ef 4 7925 1ef 5 7928 1ef 8 7929 1ef 9 8211 2013 8212 2014 8216 2018 8217 2019 8220 201c 8221 201d 8224 2020 8225 2021 8230 2026 8242 2032 8243 2033 8244 2034 8245 2035 8246 2036 8247 2037 8304 2070 8308 2074 8309 2075 8310 2076 8311 2077 8312 2078 8313 2079 8314 207a Dec Hex 8315 207b 8316 207c 8317 207d 8318 207e 8319 207f 8320 2080 8321 2081 8322 2082 8323 2083 8324 2084 8325 2085 8326 2086 8327 2087 8328 2088 8329 2089 8330 208a 8331 208b 8332 208c 8333 208d 8334 208e 8407 20d 7 8450 2102 8451 2103 8457 2109 8459 210b 8461 210d 8462 210e 8463 210f 8464 2110 8465 2111 8466 2112 8467 2113 8469 2115 8471 2117 8472 2118 8473 2119 8474 211a 8475 211b 8476 211c 8477 211d 8484 2124 Dec Hex 8486 2126 8487 2127 8490 212a 8491 212b 8492 212c 8496 2130 8497 2131 8498 2132 8499 2133 8501 2135 8502 2136 8503 2137 8504 2138 8531 2153 8532 2154 8533 2155 8534 2156 8535 2157 8536 2158 8537 2159 8538 215a 8539 215b 8540 215c 8541 215d 8542 215e 8544 2160 8545 2161 8546 2162 8547 2163 8548 2164 8549 2165 8550 2166 8551 2167 8552 2168 8553 2169 8554 216a 8555 216b 8556 216c 8557 216d 8558 216e 8559 216f Dec Hex 8560 2170 8561 2171 8562 2172 8563 2173 8564 2174 8565 2175 8566 2176 8567 2177 8568 2178 8569 2179 8570 217a 8571 217b 8572 217c 8573 217d 8574 217e 8575 217f 8592 2190 8593 2191 8594 2192 8595 2193 8596 2194 8597 2195 8598 2196 8599 2197 8600 2198 8601 2199 8602 219a 8603 219b 8614 21a 6 8617 21a 9 8618 21a a 8619 21a b 8620 21a c 8622 21a e 8624 21b 0 8625 21b 1 8630 21b 6 8631 21b 7 8634 21b a 8635 21b b 8636 21b c Dec Hex 8637 21b d 8638 21b e 8639 21b f 8640 21c 0 8641 21c 1 8642 21c 2 8643 21c 3 8644 21c 4 8646 21c 6 8647 21c 7 8648 21c 8 8649 21c 9 8650 21c a 8651 21c b 8652 21c c 8653 21c d 8654 21c e 8655 21c f 8656 21d 0 8657 21d 1 8658 21d 2 8659 21d 3 8660 21d 4 8661 21d 5 8666 21d a 8667 21d b 8669 21d d 8672 21e 0 8674 21e 2 8704 2200 8705 2201 8706 2202 8707 2203 8708 2204 8709 2205 8710 2206 8711 2207 8712 2208 8713 2209 8715 220b 8716 220c Dec Hex 8718 220e 8719 220f 8720 2210 8721 2211 8722 2212 8723 2213 8724 2214 8725 2215 8726 2216 8727 2217 8728 2218 8729 2219 8730 221a 8731 221b 8732 221c 8733 221d 8734 221e 8736 2220 8737 2221 8738 2222 8739 2223 8740 2224 8741 2225 8742 2226 8743 2227 8744 2228 8745 2229 8746 222a 8747 222b 8748 222c 8749 222d 8750 222e 8756 2234 8757 2235 8764 223c 8765 223d 8768 2240 8769 2241 8771 2243 8772 2244 8773 2245 ࡗ 182 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 182 Figure 7-6 (continued) Dec Hex 8775 2247 8776 2248 8777 2249 8778 224a 8781 224d 8784 2250 8785 2251 8786 2252 8787 2253 8790 2256 8791 2257 8799 225f 8800 2260 8801 2261 8802 2262 8804 2264 8805 2265 8806 2266 8807 2267 8808 2268 8809 2269 8810 226a 8811 226b 8812 226c 8814 226e 8815 226f 8816 2270 8817 2271 8818 2272 8819 2273 8822 2276 8823 2277 8826 227a 8827 227b 8828 227c 8829 227d 8830 227e 8831 227f 8832 2280 8833 2281 8834 2282 Dec Hex 8835 2283 8836 2284 8837 2285 8838 2286 8839 2287 8840 2288 8841 2289 8842 228a 8843 228b 8846 228e 8847 228f 8848 2290 8849 2291 8850 2292 8851 2293 8852 2294 8853 2295 8854 2296 8855 2297 8857 2299 8858 229a 8859 229b 8861 229d 8862 229e 8863 229f 8864 22a 0 8865 22a 1 8866 22a 2 8867 22a 3 8868 22a 4 8869 22a 5 8870 22a 6 8871 22a 7 8872 22a 8 8873 22a 9 8874 22a a 8876 22a c 8877 22a d 8878 22a e 8879 22a f 8882 22b 2 Dec Hex 8883 22b 3 8884 22b 4 8885 22b 5 8890 22b a 8891 22b b 8892 22b c 8896 22c 0 8897 22c 1 8898 22c 2 8899 22c 3 8901 22c 5 8902 22c 6 8903 22c 7 8904 22c 8 8905 22c 9 8906 22c a 8907 22c b 8908 22c c 8909 22c d 8910 22c e 8911 22c f 8912 22d 0 8913 22d 1 8914 22d 2 8915 22d 3 8916 22d 4 8918 22d 6 8919 22d 7 8920 22d 8 8921 22d 9 8922 22d a 8923 22d b 8924 22d c 8925 22d d 8928 22e 0 8929 22e 1 8930 22e 2 8931 22e 3 8934 22e 6 8935 22e 7 8936 22e 8 Dec Hex 8937 22e 9 8938 22e a 8939 22e b 8940 22e c 8941 22e d 8942 22e e 8943 22e f 8944 22f 0 8945 22f 1 8960 2300 8968 2308 8969 2309 8970 230a 8971 230b 8988 231c 8989 231d 8990 231e 8991 231f 8994 2322 8995 2323 9001 2329 9002 232a 9332 2474 9333 2475 9334 2476 9335 2477 9336 2478 9337 2479 9338 247a 9339 247b 9340 247c 9341 247d 9342 247e 9343 247f 9344 2480 9345 2481 9346 2482 9347 2483 9348 2484 9349 2485 9350 2486 Dec Hex 9351 2487 9352 2488 9353 2489 9354 248a 9355 248b 9356 248c 9357 248d 9358 248e 9359 248f 9360 2490 9361 2491 9362 2492 9363 2493 9364 2494 9365 2495 9366 2496 9367 2497 9368 2498 9369 2499 9370 249a 9371 249b 9372 249c 9373 249d 9374 249e 9375 249f 9376 24a 0 9377 24a 1 9378 24a 2 9379 24a 3 9380 24a 4 9381 24a 5 9382 24a 6 9383 24a 7 9384 24a 8 9385 24a 9 9386 24a a 9387 24a b 9388 24a c 9389 24a d 9390 24a e 9391 24a f Dec Hex 9392 24b 0 9393 24b 1 9394 24b 2 9395 24b 3 9396 24b 4 9397 24b 5 9415 24c 7 9416 24c 8 9585 2571 9586 2572 9632 25a 0 9633 25a 1 9651 25b 3 9652 25b 4 9653 25b 5 9654 25b 6 9657 25b 9 9661 25b d 9662 25b e 9663 25b f 9664 25c 0 9667 25c 3 9674 25c a 9711 25e f 9733 2605 9824 2660 9825 2661 9826 2662 9827 2663 9830 2666 9837 266d 9838 266e 9839 266f Space Characters 0160 00a 0 nbsp 8194 2002 ensp 8195 2003 emsp 8196 2004 em 8197 2005 em 8198 2006 em ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Chapter 7: Fonts ࡗ 183 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 183 Alt+Number Works for Unicode as well as ANSI If you need to enter just a few special characters, the Alt+number method that was described earlier for ANSI characters also can be used to enter Unicode characters in almost any Windows application. One difference is that Windows Vista supports two Alt+number methods. One uses deci- mal numbers from 161 and higher. The other uses hexadecimal numbers from 00a1 on up. We’ll first explain the Alt+decimal method. 1. Make sure the NumLock key is on (NumLock light is lighted). 2. Hold down the Alt key. 3. On the numeric keypad, type the decimal number of the character you desire. You don’t need to include a leading zero in front of character numbers 256 and higher. 4. Release the Alt key. If your insertion point is formatted in a font that includes the Unicode character you entered, that character immediately appears. If not, you can change the font at any later time. If the Alt+number method doesn’t work, your input language or code page may be inter- fering. If so, try the Alt-+Alt-hex method, described in the following section. Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex Method for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista You may prefer to enter a Unicode character from the keyboard using hexadecimal num- bers rather than decimal. If so, there’s what we call an Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex method that works in some applications. It’s a bit more convoluted and time-consuming than the Alt+decimal method. 1. The status of NumLock doesn’t matter using the Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex method. 2. Hold down the Alt key throughout this process. 3. Press the plus sign (+) on the numeric keypad. Nothing will noticeably change. 4. Using the main keyboard, type the letters and digits of the hex code for the char- acter you desire. You can include leading zeros or omit them. For example, typ- ing 03c0 or just 3c0 specifies the Greek letter pi (π), if your selected font has one. 5. Release the Alt key. If your insertion point is formatted in a font that includes the Unicode character you entered, that character immediately appears. If not, you can change the font at a later time. ࡗ 184 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Registry Hack May Be Required for Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex The Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex method won’t work in Windows or any application if a certain key in the Registry isn’t set correctly. This could happen if the key was inadvertently changed or was never switched on. If Alt+Plus, Alt+Hex doesn’t work, take the fol- lowing steps: 1. Use the Start menu to run RegEdit.exe. 2. Expand HKEY_Current_User to /Control Panel/Input Method. Find the key (or create a new string value) called EnableHexNumpad. If you create this string value, it should have the REG_SZ type. 3. Right-click and modify EnableHexNumpad to give it a value of 1. Close RegEdit. Secret 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 184 Enter special characters using input locales. An input locale is a software feature of Windows that defines a particular keyboard layout and other localized setting. Once you’ve set up two or more, you can quickly switch from one layout to another so you can, for example, write in different languages using the same keyboard. For more information, see Microsoft’s FAQ on locales and languages at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/locales.mspx#E6E. Who Has Which Fonts? We’ve now dispensed with how you get at all of the characters that you may have hidden away within your fonts. So we turn to an equally important question: How do you know which fonts you have? And just as important is this: Which fonts do other computer users have? This issue is cru- cial to whether you can send a document file to someone else and have them correctly see it the way you do on your screen and printer. If you post a document on the Internet, does it look fine to those who read and print it, or does it look like your cat was walking across your keyboard at the time? These aren’t easy questions to answer. We’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time research- ing every font name that ever shipped with Windows or other major Microsoft products. Now we’re ready to announce who has which fonts! Love at First Sort, or Baby, You’re My Type To make this information understandable, we first need to let you in on which versions of Windows — and therefore which users — have which fonts. A font that first reached Windows users only with the release of Vista will be present on far fewer systems than a font that’s been around since clay tablets. It turns out that many things are actually sorted kind of randomly when you put them into alphabetical lists. That’s more true of font lists than almost anything else. So we’re not presenting you in this chapter with the frustrating avalanche-page-of-fonts that’s found in the typical alphabetical listing. Instead, it makes the most sense to under- standing the Windows fonts if we sort them from those that are the most prevalent to those that have just seen the light of day and are still rare. In brief, these are: ࡗ Fonts that all Windows users have: These are the TrueType fonts that you find wherever Windows is booted up. That’s because these fonts have been in the product since before Bill Gates was born. That means they were installed by default in Windows NT 4, Windows 95, Windows 98, and on up the ladder. These fonts are like cockroaches; you’ll never be able to get rid of them. ࡗ Fonts that practically all Windows users have: These include the fonts that come with Windows 98/Me (which are practically the same operating system), Windows 2000, and everything since then. There aren’t that many Windows users who are still running NT or Win95 nowadays. And even they probably received this group of fonts while in the process of installing Microsoft Office, tip ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Chapter 7: Fonts ࡗ 185 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 185 an IE upgrade, or the like. Combined with the fonts from Group 1, these are the fonts that nearly all Windows users and most Mac users can be counted on to have. ࡗ Fonts that most users have, since they have W2K, XP, or Vista: The sweet spot in the installed base, as this book is published, is Windows 2000/Windows XP. These operating systems represent the vast majority of PCs in use today. Some of Microsoft’s once famous Core Fonts for the Web were first bundled into Windows 2000 (although they were available before that). This group of fonts, therefore, is very widely installed, but by no means can you expect that all Windows users have them. ࡗ Fonts that were first shipped with Vista: Windows XP wasn’t much on the font front, so that left it to Vista to ship with a whole new gaggle of fonts at no extra cost. This is a fascinating category of fonts that have many attractive features, but most Windows users don’t have them installed yet. We’ve assembled the lists in this chapter by referring to a Microsoft mini-search engine on the Web. This form catalogs every font the Redmond company has shipped with any of its software products in history. If you’d like to see which packages you might be able to purchase to obtain particular fonts, query the form at www.microsoft.com/ typography/fonts/default.aspx. Displaying Font Samples the Fastest Way First of all, let us explain the meaning of the following cryptic sentence, which you’ll find in the font listings that follow: Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. This is the shortest grammatically correct sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet at least once. Actually, it’s tied for shortest (more on that in a moment). There can’t be one that’s shorter, because the sentence above uses each of the 26 letters exactly once. William Gillespie, who collects these isogrammatic pangrams — nonrepeating sentences that use every letter — explains that the sentence above was discovered by one Clement Woods. As a phrase, the pangram could be interpreted to mean, “Jock has no time for hunting game animals because he’s busy showing off his doctoral degree on game shows” (see www.spinelessbooks.com/table/forms/pangram.html). We’ll be the first to admit that, although it may be a perfect pangram, it isn’t necessarily an ideal way to display font samples. But it is blessedly short. That allowed us to make each font as large as possible and still fit on a single line across the page. And it’s a more coherent sentence, you’ll have to admit, than the alternatives that were pre- sented to us at Gillespie’s site ( http://rinkworks.com/words/pangrams.shtml) and elsewhere: XV quick nymphs beg fjord waltz. Blowsy night-frumps vex’d by NJ IQ. Now, without further ado, let’s find out which fonts people actually have. tip ࡗ 186 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 186 The Fonts Everyone Has In the remainder of this chapter, we’re going to catalog those fonts that have been intro- duced in a particular version of Windows and have stayed in Windows ever since. Most Windows systems have a far greater number of fonts installed than we show here. But if a font appeared in, say, Windows 2000 and wasn’t included in future versions of Windows, it’s not a very good candidate for a font that you can assume all Windows users have. Figure 7-7 illustrates those fonts that you can say with confidence, “Every Windows user has these fonts.” Figure 7-7: The fonts everyone has. Have you seen these fonts? Sure. Windows has included a nice basic variety for many years. There are solid sans-serif and serif fonts, two monospaced fonts, an early Unicode font, and three pictorial (symbol) fonts. Arial and Times New Roman are well known as the most widely used fonts in Windows. Lucida Sans Unicode is, in truth, the most interesting font in this bunch. The version installed in Windows XP contains more than 1,700 characters. That pales in the face of Arial Unicode MS, which can render more than 50,000 glyphs. This font, unfortunately, has never been included in any version of Windows, only as part of Microsoft Office 2000 and higher, which not everyone owns. Arial Unicode MS also wasn’t included in beta copies of Windows Vista, although Microsoft could always change its mind and add it in. We think Microsoft should widely and freely distribute this font so most people will eventually have it installed. ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Chapter 7: Fonts ࡗ 187 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 187 Until then, if you want to be sure your readers can see some little-used character from the WGL4 set, Lucida Sans Unicode probably has the glyph — and you know the font is installed everywhere. The Fonts Virtually Everyone Has Figure 7-8 shows several fonts that were first installed by default in Windows 98. More important, they’ve been able to stick around in the operating system ever since that time. Figure 7-8: The fonts almost everyone has. Since there are hardly any boxes running Windows 95 any more, the list in this figure, plus the ones in Figure 7-7, can be considered to comprise a universal set of fonts that all Windows users, and most Mac users, have installed. Several other fonts have made an appearance in one version of Windows or another, only to disappear without a trace thereafter. (Remember Century Gothic? Four complete weights appeared in Windows 98/Me and then went missing in every future version. Licensing snafus? Greedy font owners? Cheapskate software billionaires? Who knows.) Tahoma was introduced as the user-interface font for Office 97, continuing that role in Office 2000/XP/2003. It became the user interface font for Windows 98, too, and has held that position until Vista came out. Verdana is the sleeper in this group. It’s a slightly expanded version of Tahoma and has attracted many adherents among Webmasters, who believe it’s more readable on-screen than Arial. Actually, Verdana does have wider lowercase characters, which look much better on-screen at 8 pt. than does Arial. The old stalwart Arial, however, prints more gracefully than Verdana and looks better on-screen as well, at sizes of 10 pt. and above. Fonts installed on almost all Windows PCs (98, Me, 2000, XP, and Vista) Arial Black Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. Comic Sans MS (with bold) Impact Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. Tahoma (with bold) Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. Verdana (with bold, italic, and bold italic) Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. Webdings ࡗ 188 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 188 Arial Black and Impact are Microsoft’s ugliest fonts. The idea behind Impact is good — a truly extrabold font — but the typeface is unreadable on-screen at anything less than bill- board-size. The Fonts Most, But Not All, Users Have Figure 7-9 rounds out our list of fonts that the majority of Windows users have installed. Windows 2000, and especially Windows XP two years later, established Georgia and Trebuchet MS as fonts that will have long lives and large installed user bases. These two faces were part of the “Core Fonts for the Web” package, 11 families of type (most with four full weights) that Microsoft freely distributed at that time. This was designed to encourage Webmasters to specify more legible fonts on their pages. It seems to have worked quite well, since many now use some new-core font, especially Georgia, with Times as a fall-back selection. By contrast, MS Sans Serif is uninteresting. It has no WGL4 characters, not even the “mid- dle ANSI” set, and it has no weights other than roman. Figure 7-9: The fonts most Windows users have. Systems running Windows 2000, XP, and Vista include these fonts. The other Core Fonts for the Web — Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier New, Impact, Times New Roman, Verdana, and Webdings — are files that most Windows users already have and don’t need to download again. Microsoft gave these faces away primarily to expand the installed base of these fonts to Apple users (OS X supports both TrueType and OpenType fonts) and Windows 95/98 users who’d never received the fonts by upgrading to Internet Explorer (IE) 5. Fonts installed on most Windows PCs (2000, XP, and Vista) Georgia (with bold, italic, and bold italic) Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. Microsoft Sans Serif Palatino Linotype (with bold, italic, and bold italic) Trebuchet MS (with bold, italic, and bold italic) Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ Chapter 7: Fonts ࡗ 189 13_577048 ch07.qxp 11/29/06 8:15 PM Page 189 [...]... Windows 95/98/Me, Mac, and Linux The New Vista Font Collection Windows Vista introduces a rather high number of new fonts for a new release of Windows It isn’t the champ According to Microsoft’s font query form that we mentioned earlier, Windows 2000 added 90 new font files (counting bold, bold italic, and other weights as separate files) that had never before appeared in Windows Vista adds only 44 ... Table 7-2: About 82 Percent of All Internet Users Had Windows XP Installed in 2006 Operating System Usage Windows XP 82.12 percent Windows 2000 7.96 percent Windows 98 5.97 percent Mac 2.12 percent Unknown 1. 04 percent Windows NT 0.28 percent Linux 0.25 percent Windows 95 0.10 percent Windows 3.x 0.09 percent Unix 0. 04 percent WebTV 0.02 percent Windows Me 0.01 percent Remember, the figures are derived... Used in Business Had Windows 2000 or XP Installed in Mid-2005 Version Usage Windows 2000 48 percent Windows XP 38 percent Windows NT 10 percent Windows 95, 98, or Me 5 percent These figures suggest that the vast majority of business users were running Windows 2000 or XP before Vista became available Since Microsoft’s support for Windows 2000 has expired since the study was done, XP has replaced Win2K... mysteries of the fonts that ship with Windows Vista Hopefully, you’ll now be able to find and use any specialized characters that your documents may require Part III Security Chapter 8: Windows Vista Security Features Chapter 9: New User Account Features Windows Vista Security Features Chapter 8 ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗ ࡗࡗ ࡗ ࡗ In This Chapter Using Windows Security Center to monitor... you have a Windows Vista machine and a licensed copy of a previous version of Windows on any other machine, you can move the new Vista fonts from one machine to the other If the two PCs are on a local area network, open the Fonts control panel on the PC that doesn’t have the fonts Select Install new font, then click the Network button, and navigate to the C: \Windows\ Fonts folder of the Vista machine... is the new user-interface font in both Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 Unlike the UI fonts that were previously employed in Windows XP and Office, Segoe UI supports bold, italic, and bold italic weights This means you might use this font in documents, like any other font Segoe is pronounced see-go This name appears to be a nod to the font’s use in Windows Vista and Office menus (See and go.)... intended) to what extent Vista and Office 2007 will allow that As a last resort, you can move the Segoe UI font files from C: \Windows\ Fonts to another folder you create, such as C: \Windows\ UnusedFonts (You may need to move the fonts in a command prompt window, since Vista doesn’t allow moving fonts in the Control Panel.) Without deleting the fonts, moving them makes them unusable by Windows, in which case... those people are all close co-workers, and you know they all use at least Windows XP or Vista, go ahead and use in the document any of the fonts that are found in XP You could also save your document using the new Windows Vista XML Paper Specification (XPS) format If anyone in your department doesn’t use Vista, they’ll need Windows Server 2003 or XP SP2 and higher and must install Microsoft’s WinFX... Why does Vista need, say, 14 Thai fonts? Just as the Latin alphabet is supported by thousands of different fonts, Windows users in language groups around the world have used many different fonts to create documents To ensure that these documents will display and print in Vista the same way they did in older versions of Windows, Microsoft must include all of the older fonts Table 7-3: Which Vista Fonts... ClearTypeInfo.mspx ࡗ 196 Part II: Understanding the Windows Vista User Experience ࡗࡗࡗ What If Your PC Doesn’t Have the Vista Fonts? 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