Longhorn to Improve Windows Typography Options (8 Ways to Sunday)

Longhorn to Improve Windows Typography Options

Filed under “Software” and “Graphic Design”
by Adam at 4:46 PM on July 5, 2005

Graphic designers, rejoice!

Among a slew of other features included in the May beta release of Avalon (the Longhorn graphics layer) is support for Adobe CFF. This extension to the OpenType font specification should provide system-wide support for advanced typography features such as ligatures, glyph substitution, multiple baselines, and contextual kerning in Avalon-based programs. You will, of course, have to have some CFF fonts on hand for all this magic to happen.

This is an area where Microsoft is playing catch-up to Apple, and it’s a badly-needed improvement for serious design work. Too bad we’ll have to wait until 2006 or later to get it.

Updates

7/5/2005 @ 5:16 pm — Dylan Greene has more on Longhorn’s OpenType features, with links to further examples.

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