Cambria (typeface)
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Designer(s) | Jelle Bosma, Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas Cambria Math: Jelle Bosma, Ross Mills, John Hudson, Geraldine Wade, Mike Duggan, Greg Hitchcock, Andrei Burago, Vivek Garg |
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Foundry | Microsoft, Tiro Typeworks (Cambria Math) |
Date released | 2005 |
License | Proprietary |
Cambria is a transitional
It is part of the
Design
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
Many aspects of the design are somewhat blocky to render well on screen, and full stops are square rather than round. Designers have recommended avoiding using it in printed text because of this: designer Matthew Butterick described it as too monotonous to be attractive on paper.[4] Bosma compared it to optical sizes of fonts designed to be printed small: "The design is a bit like an old metal type font. In those days sizes had their own drawing, so that small sizes are wider and have a lower contrast compared to large fonts in the same design: optical correction. In this sense, Cambria is like a small size font, except that it may also be used at large sizes."
As with the other ClearType fonts, both lining figures and text figures are offered. Lining figures are the default, and are shown on the sample image.
Cambria Math
This is a variant designed for mathematical and scientific texts, as a replacement for
Availability
Cambria is distributed with all
This font, along with
The typeface is licensed by
Caladea
In 2013, as part of
Usages
Cambria Math is used for presentation of
The free typesetting systems XeTeX and LuaTeX can make direct use of Cambria Math as an alternative to traditional TeX mathematical fonts.[11][12]
Cambria is available for use in Google's Google Drive suite of web applications.
- Used as the default font for most document typing applications.
Technical standards published by CEN use Cambria 11pt for body text.[13] One example of such a standard is EN 301 549, European Standard for Digital Accessibility.
See also
- Asana-Math – the first free font that could be used instead of Cambria Math with Microsoft Office 2007.
- Latin Modern– a version of Computer Modern with support for OpenType math
- Neo Euler– a version of AMS Euler with support for OpenType math
- XITS– a fork of the STIX fonts with support for OpenType math
References
- ^ a b Bosma, Jelle (22 March 2018). "Classifying Cambria (comments on discussion thread)". Type Drawers. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Profile of Jelle Bosma". Monotype. Archived from the original on 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
- ^ Levien, Raph. "Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection: A Fair and Balanced Review". Typographica. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ Butterick, Matthew. "Cambria alternatives". Butterick's Practical Typography. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ Rhatigan, Daniel (September 2007). "Three Typefaces for Mathematics - The development of Times 4-line Mathematics Series 569, AMS Euler, and Cambria Math" (PDF). University of Reading. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
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- ^ "Download PowerPoint Viewer from Official Microsoft Download Center". Microsoft.
- ^ "Download Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats from Official Microsoft Download Center". Microsoft.
- ^ "Download Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1 from Official Microsoft Download Center". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
- ^ "A thank you to Google from Desktop Linux". GNOME Blog. 10 October 2013.
- ^ M. Goossens (Ed.) (2008) The XeTeX Companion: TeX meets OpenType and Unicode, p. 90
- ^ LuaTeX reference manual Archived 2010-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CEN Simple Template — Quick Start Guide" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2024.
External links
- Microsoft Typography: Cambria, Cambria Math
- Microsoft Cleartype Font Collection at Microsoft Typography
- Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". Poynter Online. Archived from the original on 2006-06-04. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
- Tiro Typeworks projects contains Cambria
- High-Quality Editing and Display of Mathematical Text in Office 2007
- Cambria Math specimen
- Garamond Math – a version of EB Garamond with support for OpenType math
- Libertinus Math – a version of Libertinuswith support for OpenType math