Trebuchet Specimen Book

Trebuchet

TEHC 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. ... Released freely by Microsoft as part of their core fonts for the Web package, it remains one of the most popular body text fonts on webpages

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HISTORY HAND LETTERING DISPLAY TYPE TEXT TYPE TREBUCHET ALPHABET NUMBERS & SYMBOLS FONT FAMILY CONTRAST BODY COPY DISTINGUISHING FEATURES

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History 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. The name was inspired by a puzzle question that Connare heard at Microsoft headquarters: "Can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?" Connare "thought that would be a great name for a font that launches words across the Internet". Trebuchet MS was the font used for the window titles in the Windows XP default theme, succeeding MS Sans Serif and Tahoma. Released freely by Microsoft as part of their core fonts for the Web package, it remains one of the most popular body text fonts on webpages.

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Trebuchet as Display Type

TREBUCHET is a font that works as

Heading

and DISPLAY sizes as well as small sizes

and low resolutions

Trebuchet as Text Type Dyslexia is a disability which is very sensitive to particular typefaces, both in print and on screen. We look at some of the typefaces we recommend to ensure that whatever materials you are creating, they are accessible to as broad an audience as possible.

Many dyslexic people find that the readability of a piece of text varies greatly depending upon the font (type face or type style) used.

A number of fonts have been commissioned by Microsoft with the aim of making on-screen reading easier and are included in many of their packages. While some have a fault common in many modern fonts in that they have large bodies and short descenders and ascenders, which makes the letters harder to tell apart, they are very professionally worked, so they are as clear and clean as possible at all sizes and in all media. We use a mixture of Verdana and Arial on our web pages.

Trebuchet MS has short descenders but reasonably long ascenders, a small body size and generous line spacing. We find this font suits many readers.

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Trebuchet as Body Copy Vincent Connare is a popular contemporary graphic designer and typographer based in America. He has formerly worked for the world’s leading software company, Microsoft. He is widely recognized for designing Trebuchet MS and Comic Sans font.

Vincent Connare was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. He received his formal education from Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts. He then went on to study at New York Institute of Technology where he opted for Fine Art and Photography. Before working for Compugraphic where his college girlfriend worked, he provided his services as a photographer at The Worcester Telegram, a Massachusetts’ newspaper. Compugraphic needed a typographer to transform its typeface library from its existing photosetting incarnation for digital use. He joined the company as a typographic engineer in 1987 and remained one till 1993. In fact, he also became a member of Intellifont, TrueType and Ikarus font production teams during his time at Agfa/Compugraphic. He was the first type designer to acquaint himself with TrueType hinting.

TREBUCHET Distinguishing Characteristics The edges of the uppercase "M" which form a 10° angle with a vertical line, reminiscent of a tighter version of Futura.

The shape of the tail of the uppercase "Q".

The bar of the capital "A" is low.

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. The ampersand "&" in the form of an "Et" ligature.

The exclamation point "!", whose dot is large and round.

Italic fonts incorporate italic type characteristics instead of just tilting roman glyphs, making it the first sans serif font family from Microsoft to use true italic features.

The bold version also has some distinctive features: pointed rather than square-cut tails on lowercase "a" and "l", and slant-cut rather than square-cut ascenders.

The en dash and hyphen are essentially indistinguishable.

TREBUCHET Distinguishing Characteristics