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Say Hi to Cambria
Welcome to Per’Font’ Match!
Our first contestant works for a large software company in Seattle, Washington. She’s a hardworking career girl who excels at word processing and web design, enjoys long paragraphs with friends and loves to curl up with a good book in her downtime. Say a big ‘Hi’ to… Cambria!
Yes, this is Cambria and we are told she will not only be included in the new Longhorn OS, but has also landed the plum job of being the default Microsoft Word font. Hopefully that will mean Mac Office will get her too.
Farewell poor Times New Roman. It was a blast.
And it doesn’t end there from a type perspective. As Anne Van Wagener tells us, she will be joined in Longhorn by her friends:
- Calibri – an easy-going but smart sans-serif
- Candara – a serious young san-serif with old fashioned values
- Consolas – a monospaced geekfont that cares
- Constantia – a charming, approachable serif that’s easy to like
- Corbel – an incisive, no-nonsense san-serif with a gentle side
They all look great. Nice work Microsoft! (you’re still not off the hook for the PNG thing though)
Of course, even when Longhorn is released it doesn’t change much in the short …
Conclusion — What actually happened to company offering mock ups
Thank you for the great posts to the last blog entry, about using mock ups as a marketing tool. The story has reached its conclusion, and this entry will tell you what finally happened with the eLance bidder who provided a mock up for me.
First, a couple of points of clarification based on some of the many posts to last blog:
1. I provided very detailed specifications to any designer who requested them, including complete copy, proposed navigation scheme, and details about look and feel I wanted to convey (which should also have been apparent in the copy). I definitely agree with all of you who wondered how anyone could provide a mock up without getting into a detailed discussion with client.
2. While this was a simple web site (10 pages and two forms emailable to me for manual processing) for a non-profit venture, on any web project I as a consumer separate the work of more complex undertakings into a few buckets: copy, graphic/web design, architecture, infrastructure, coding/development. I’ve found no firms that can do a great job on all of these elements, and tend to parse them out — especially copy, graphics, and the development/infrastructure/architecture aspects. Therefore, getting mockups …