Candara
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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Designer(s) | Gary Munch |
| Foundry | Munchfonts, Microsoft |
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Candara is a humanist sans-serif typeface, which is bundled with Microsoft Windows Vista. Candara’s verticals show an entasis on stems, high-branching arcades in the lowercase, large apertures in all open forms, and unique ogee curves on diagonals.
The family supports WGL4 character set. OpenType features include automatic ligature sets, numerals (tabular, proportional, oldstyle and lining), numerator, denominator, scientific inferior subscripts, small caps.
Candara is featured in the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection, a set of fonts developed to take advantage of ClearType to improve the reading experience in Windows Vista and Office 2007.
This font, along with Calibri, Consolas, Cambria, Constantia and Corbel, is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer[1] and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.[2]
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[edit] External links
- Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". Poynter Online. http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- Microsoft ClearType Font Collection at Microsoft Typography
- Munchfonts: Candara
