New fonts in Windows Vista

A tour of the new fonts in Windows Vista. We can use more fonts!

Here they are:

Calibri

Cambria

Candara

Consolas

Constantia

Corbel

Segoe UI

You can degrade your font choice gracefully using CSS so that if a user is on Vista they will get the new font but if they are not they will get another one.

In this example if the user does not have Corbel they get Lucida Sans. If they don't have Lucida Sans they will get Verdana and so on.

font: 62.5%/1.5 "Candara", "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;

With such a limited choice of system fonts this is something for typography fans to cheer about (well a little bit!).

Possibly related

• 12 Mar 2007 » Typography for the Web
• 23 Nov 2007 » Embracing progressive enhancement
• 21 Dec 2006 » Creating usable forms