Serif font family Cambria Jelle Bosma, and Robin Nicholas Cambria Math: Jelle Bosma, Ross Mills, John Hudson, Mike Duggan, Greg Hitchcock, Andrei Burago, Vivek Garg, (Cambria Math) Date released 2007 Proprietary Cambria is a transitional typeface commissioned by Microsoft and distributed with. It was designed by Jelle Bosma in 2004, with input from and Robin Nicholas. It is intended as a serif font that is suitable for body text, that is very readable printed small or displayed on a low-resolution screen and has even spacing and proportions. It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with. All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on monitors. The other fonts in the same group are,. Contents.

Design Diagonal and vertical hairlines and serifs are relatively strong, while horizontal serifs are small and intend to emphasize stroke endings rather than stand out themselves. This principle is most noticeable in the where the lowercase characters are subdued in style. It is somewhat more condensed than average for a font of its kind. A profile of Bosma for the website commented: 'One of the defining features of the typeface is its contrast between heavy vertical serifs and hairlines – which keep the font sturdy, and ensures the design is preserved at small sizes – and its relatively thin horizontals, which ensure the typeface remains crisp when used at larger sizes.' Bosma describes it as a 'transitional hybrid.' Many aspects of the design are somewhat blocky to render well on screen, and are square rather than round. Designers have recommended avoiding using it in printed text because of this: designer described it as too monotonous to be attractive on paper.

Bosna compared it to designed to be printed small: 'The design is a bit like an old metal type font. In those days sizes had their own drawing, so that small sizes are wider and have a lower contrast compared to large fonts in the same design: optical correction. In this sense, Cambria is like a small size font, except that it may also be used at large sizes.' As with the other ClearType fonts, both lining figures and are offered. Lining figures are the default, and are shown on the sample image. Cambria Math This is a variant designed for mathematical and scientific texts, as a replacement for. Cambria Math was the first font to implement the extension, itself inspired.

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Led by of Agfa Monotype and of Tiro Typeworks, the project was planned when development of Cambria had started, but Cambria Math was developed in three stages. Availability.

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Download free Cambria Regular font, CAMBRIA.TTF Cambria Regular Microsoft: Cambria: 2004 Char map Ascii Cambria Regular font Char map Unicode Cambria Regular font 1. Microsoft: Cambria: 2004 4. Version 0.90 6. Cambria is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft Corporation 9. Agfa Monotype Corporation 10.

The Cambria has been designed for on-screen reading and to look good when printed at small sizes. It has very even spacing and proportions. Diagonal and vertical hairlines and serifs are relatively strong, while horizontal serifs are small and intend to emphasize stroke endings rather than stand out themselves. This principle is most noticeable in the italics where the lowercase characters are subdued in style to be at their best as elements of word-images. When Cambria is used for captions at sizes over 20 point, the inter-character spacing should be slightly reduced for best results.

The design isn't just intended for business documents: The regular weight has been extended with a large set of math and science symbols. The Greek and Cyrillic has been designed under close supervision of an international team of experts, who aimed to set a historical new standard in multi-script type design. This font software is part of the Microsoft software product in which it was included and is provided under the end user license agreement ( EULA ) for that Microsoft software product. The terms and conditions of the EULA govern the use of font software. Please refer to the applicable Microsoft product EULA if you have any questions about how you may use this font software.

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