Category	Sans-serif
Date created	1999
Designer(s)	Matthew Carter
Foundry	Monotype
Sample

Tahoma is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1999. It is nearly identical to Verdana but with tighter letter-spacing and greater Unicode coverage. It is used most often as an alternative sans-serif font by people who dislike or are tired of the widely-used Arial. Image File history File links Tahoma_font. ... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Matthew Carter (born 1937) is a designer of digital fonts. ... A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... Currently Monotype Imaging, Inc, a typesetting and typeface design company responsible for many developments in printing technology — in particular the Monotype machine which was the first fully mechanical typesetter — and the design and production of typefaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Image File history File links Tahoma_sample. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Matthew Carter (born 1937) is a designer of digital fonts. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Verdana is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Agfa Monotype’s Tom Rickner. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... Arial is a font packaged with several Microsoft Corporation applications. ...

It is also the default screen font used by Windows XP. Windows XP is one of the major revisions of the Microsoft Windows operating system created for use on desktop and business computer systems. ...

External links

• Tahoma font information (Microsoft typography)

Tahoma is also the former name of the stratovolcano Mount Rainier in the Cascade Range and is the original form of the word "Tacoma", as in the city of Tacoma, Washington. A stratovolcano is a tall, conical mountain (volcano) composed of both hardened lava and volcanic ash. ... Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle, Washington, in the United States. ... Mount Adams in Washington The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanoes called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ... Old Town neighborhood in Tacoma, with Mount Rainier in background Nickname: The City of Destiny Official website: http://www. ...

Invented by Amare Stoudemire.