Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. The project was terminated in August 2002. However, the EULA on the font packages allowed redistribution as long as the packages were kept in their original format and with their original filename, and they were not used to add value to commercial products. As a result, they are still available for download on third-party websites. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the... Value added refers to the additional value created at a particular stage of production or through image and marketing. ...

For Windows, the fonts are provided as standard executables, however they each include an embedded cabinet file, which can be extracted with appropriate software. This fact allows the fonts to be used on operating systems such as Linux, as long as they are distributed in original form. For the Macintosh, the files are provided as BinHexed Stuff-It archives. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. ... BinHex, short for binary-to-hexadecimal, is an ASCII armoring system that was used on the Mac OS for sending binary files through E-mail. ... StuffIt is a family of software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh and remains common on that platform. ...

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On April 11, 2005, Ascender Corporation reached an agreement with Microsoft, which enabled Ascender to distribute Microsoft Fonts, including the Windows Core Fonts, the Microsoft Web Fonts and the many multilingual fonts currently supplied by Microsoft. Each regular font is sold for $20-30.^{[citation needed]} is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The fonts

Andale Mono Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Andale Mono—formerly Monotype. ...	Arial Image File history File links Arial_sample. ... Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a typeface and a computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, and many PostScript computer printers. ...	Comic Sans MS Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Comic Sans is a digital typeface from Microsoft Corporation designed to imitate comic book lettering, for use in casual and informal settings. ...	Courier New Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ...
Georgia Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...	Impact Image File history File links Impact_sample. ... Impact is a sans-serif typeface designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965. ...	Times New Roman Image File history File links Times_New_Roman_sample. ... The Times New Roman typeface, on top at 88. ...	Trebuchet MS Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Examples of distinguishing characteristics Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. ...
Verdana Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Verdana is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Agfa Monotype’s Tom Rickner. ...	Webdings Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1460, 189 KB)Webdings characters mosaic. ... Webdings is a TrueType dingbat font developed in 1997 and included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since that time. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/11/hakon_on_ms_interroperability

External links

• Core fonts download page on Sourceforge
• Former Core fonts for the Web homepage (Courtesy of the Internet Archive)
• Current Core fonts for the Web home page, which no longer provides the fonts themselves.
• Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for Mac and Windows (contains a copy of the EULA, the FAQ, and all the font packages)
• Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for Linux (contains a copy of the EULA, the FAQ, and all the font packages)
• An Initiative started by Andrei Herasimchuk, sends an Open Letter to Adobe in order to improve Web-Typography. Also Designer Jeff Croft proposes the new Windows Vista Typefaces made available in an Open Letter to Apple and Microsoft
• Ascender's announcement on Microsoft fonts
• Web Design is 95% Typography (Part 1) and (Part 2) — Two articles on web design and typography that caused controversy.