Hergio

I must say, I like the new Windows Vista fonts. Although I don’t yet have Windows Vista, its possible to get the fonts legally. I just changed my default system font over to Segoe UI. Trying to obtain it wasn’t as straight forward as I thought, googling it came up with multiple results one of which was softpedia.com, but if you download it from there, it DOES NOT include the Segoe UI font, the one you’d really be looking for. As suggested on the wikipedia article, the best way to get it is to install Windows Live Mail. I installed it and changed everything over and it looks great. Definitely a font you can see was specifically designed for on-screen viewing using ClearType.

The other ClearType fonts that come with Vista: Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Candara, Constantia and Corbel, are pretty nice as well. I specifically like Consolas for programming, its a decent fixed width font that looks nice in ClearType only. And I think Calibri is a great replacement for Times New Roman. Its a sharp looking font that I think looks good.