Cambria (typeface)
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| Category | Serif |
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| Designer(s) | Jelle Bosma, Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas Cambria Math: Jelle Bosma, Ross Mills, John Hudson, Geraldine Wade, Mike Duggan, Greg Hitchcock, Andrei Burago, Vivek Garg |
| Foundry | Microsoft, Tiro Typeworks (Cambria Math) |
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Cambria is part of the suite of fonts that come with Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a serif font. It has very even spacing and proportions. Diagonal and vertical hairlines and serifs are relatively strong, while horizontal serifs are small and intend to emphasize stroke endings rather than stand out themselves. This principle is most noticeable in the italics where the lowercase characters are subdued in style to be at their best as elements of word-images. Cambria was designed by Dutch typographer Jelle Bosma in 2004, with Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas.
A completely unrelated font using the Cambria name was created by type designer Ian Koshnick in 1989 for his software publishing company, Cambria Publishing.
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[edit] Cambria Math
It is a variant designed for mathematical and scientific texts, as replacement of Times New Roman. Led by Jelle Bosma of Agfa Monotype and Ross Mills of Tiro Typeworks, the project was planned when development of Cambria had started, but Cambria Math was developed in 3 stages.[1]
[edit] Availability
It is distributed with Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, and Microsoft Office 2007 viewers and converters.
This font, along with Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel, is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer[2] and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.[3] Cambria (Regular) and Cambria Math are packaged together as a TrueType Collection (TTC) file. Office 2008 for Mac does not include Cambria Math, as OMML is not supported. Therefore, the Macintosh version of Cambria is packaged as individual TrueType Font (TTF) files, rather than a single TTC file.
Retail versions of the font are sold by Ascender Corporation, or by Monotype Imaging in MicroType format under the Vista 8 Font Set package.
[edit] Usages
Cambria Math is used for presentation of OMML equations in Word 2007.
The free typesetting system XeTeX can make direct use of Cambria Math as an alternative to traditional TeX mathematical fonts.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Rhatigan, Daniel (September 2007) (PDF). Three Typefaces for Mathematics. University of Reading. http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource/articles_essays/pdfs/tc_article_47.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-01-03.
- ^ "PowerPoint 2007 Viewer". Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en. Retrieved on 2009-01-03.
- ^ "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack". Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en. Retrieved on 2009-01-03.
[edit] External links
- Microsoft Cleartype Font Collection at Microsoft Typography
- MTI/Vista 8 Font Set List
- Tiro Typeworks projects contains Cambria
- High-Quality Editing and Display of Mathematical Text in Office 2007
- Cambria Math specimen
