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Cambria (typeface)
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Cambria is part of the suite of fonts
that comes with Microsoft
Windows Vista
, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007
, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading
and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a transitional serif
font. 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. Cambria was designed by Dutch
typographer Jelle Bosma in 2004, with Steve Matteson
and Robin Nicholas.
A completely unrelated font using the Cambria name was created by type designer Ian Koshnick in 1989 for his software publishing company, Cambria Publishing.
, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007
, Microsoft Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac, and Microsoft Office 2007 viewers and converters.
This font, along with Calibri
, Candara
, Consolas
, Constantia
and Corbel
, is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Cambria (Regular) and Cambria Math are packaged together as a TrueType
Collection (TTC) file. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
does not include Cambria Math, as OMML is not supported. Therefore, the Macintosh version of Cambria is packaged as individual TrueType Font (TTF) files, rather than a single TTC file.
The typeface is licensed by Ascender Corporation
for use by end users and consumer electronics device manufacturers. The typeface is also licensed by Monotype Imaging
to printer manufacturers as part of the Vista 8 Font Set package.
The free typesetting systems XeTeX
and LuaTeX
can make direct use of Cambria Math as an alternative to traditional TeX
mathematical fonts.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
that comes with Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007...
, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008...
and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading
Screen reading
Screen reading is the act of reading a text on a computer screen, smartphone, e-book reader, etc. It is often contrasted with the act of reading a text on paper, in particular a printed text....
and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a transitional serif
Serif
In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans serif or sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”...
font. 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
Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive typeface based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, such typefaces often slant slightly to the right. Different glyph shapes from roman type are also usually used—another influence from calligraphy...
where the lowercase characters are subdued in style. Cambria was designed by Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
typographer Jelle Bosma in 2004, with Steve Matteson
Steve Matteson
Steven R. Matteson is an American typeface designer whose work is included in several computer operating systems and embedded in game consoles, cell phones and other electronic devices...
and Robin Nicholas.
A completely unrelated font using the Cambria name was created by type designer Ian Koshnick in 1989 for his software publishing company, Cambria Publishing.
Cambria Math
This is a variant designed for mathematical and scientific texts, as a replacement for Times New Roman. Led by Jelle Bosma of Agfa Monotype and Ross Mills of Tiro Typeworks, the project was planned when development of Cambria had started, but Cambria Math was developed in three stages.Availability
It is distributed with Windows VistaWindows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007...
, Microsoft Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac, and Microsoft Office 2007 viewers and converters.
This font, along with Calibri
Calibri
Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad...
, Candara
Candara
Candara is a humanist sans-serif typeface, which is bundled with Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Candara’s verticals show both entasis and ekstasis on opposite sides of stems, high-branching arcades in the lowercase, large apertures in all open forms, and unique ogee curves on diagonals.The...
, Consolas
Consolas
Consolas is a monospaced typeface, designed by Lucas de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It comes with Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and is available...
, Constantia
Constantia (typeface)
Constantia is part of the suite of typefaces that come with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Office 2007. The development began in 2003....
and Corbel
Corbel (typeface)
Corbel is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jeremy Tankard for Microsoft and released in 2005. It is a part of the new suite of fonts that come with Microsoft Windows Vista developed to take advantage of ClearType to improve the reading experience in Windows Vista and Office 2007.Corbel is designed...
, is also distributed with the free Powerpoint 2007 Viewer and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Cambria (Regular) and Cambria Math are packaged together as a TrueType
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
Collection (TTC) file. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008...
does not include Cambria Math, as OMML is not supported. Therefore, the Macintosh version of Cambria is packaged as individual TrueType Font (TTF) files, rather than a single TTC file.
The typeface is licensed by Ascender Corporation
Ascender Corporation
Ascender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois in the United States...
for use by end users and consumer electronics device manufacturers. The typeface is also licensed by Monotype Imaging
Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...
to printer manufacturers as part of the Vista 8 Font Set package.
Usages
Cambria Math is used for presentation of OMML equations in Word 2007.The free typesetting systems XeTeX
XeTeX
XeTeX is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType or Apple Advanced Typography...
and LuaTeX
LuaTeX
LuaTeX is a TeX based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the pdfTeX team as a successor to pdfTeX . Later in the project some functionality of Aleph was included...
can make direct use of Cambria Math as an alternative to traditional TeX
TeX
TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
mathematical fonts.
See also
- Asana-MathAsana-MathAsana-Math is a Palatino-like OpenType mathematical font with advanced layout features based on the undocumented Microsoft mathematical OpenType layout extensions. It was developed by Apostolos Syropoulos, based on the Type 1 pxfonts by Young Ryu. Asana-Math is freely available under the Open Font...
– the first free font that could be used instead of Cambria Math with Microsoft Office 2007Microsoft Office 2007Microsoft Office 2007 is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007...
.
External links
- Microsoft Typography: Cambria, Cambria Math
- Microsoft Cleartype Font Collection at Microsoft Typography
- Ascender Corp page
- MTI/Vista 8 Font Set List
- Tiro Typeworks projects contains Cambria
- High-Quality Editing and Display of Mathematical Text in Office 2007
- Cambria Math specimen