Examples of distinguishing characteristics

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Microsoft refers to Trebuchet MS as “a good web design font”, and it is one of their 'Core fonts for the Web'. Trebuchet MS has been included with several Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system, components of the Office productivity suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. Web design is the designing and graphical presentation of content shown on the Internet in the form of Web sites and other Web applications using many different forms of media. ... Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created or purchased by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows, and Apples Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. ... Windows Internet Explorer (also called Microsoft Internet Explorer) is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ...

It is default font for title bars in Windows XP. The title bar is that part of a window where the title of the window appears. ... Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...

Distinguishing characteristics

Trebuchet MS distinguishes itself from other common sans-serif fonts through several characteristics, the most notable of which include:

• The splayed edges of the uppercase M which form a 10º angle with a vertical line,
• 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, and
• The exclamation point, whose dot is large and round.

In some versions of the font (those shipped with Windows 2000 and early versions of Internet Explorer), the opening quotation mark character was flipped vertically. This error was fixed in later versions.[1]

Trebuchet MS has been released with the Microsoft Windows operating system since Microsoft Windows 2000. The typeface has been released with Internet Explorer since version 4.0 and Microsoft Word since Word 2000. For further release information visit the Microsoft typography website.