Cambria (font)
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| font | Cambria |
| category | Serif |
| Font designer | Jelle Bosma , Steve Matteson , Robin Nicholas |
| Type foundry | Microsoft |
| Creation | 2004 |
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Cambria is a serif font . It is part of a series of new fonts that were introduced with Microsoft Windows Vista and has also been included in Microsoft Office since Windows version 2007 and Mac OS X version 2008. The font is subject to a proprietary license, i. H. it may not be freely used or distributed.
Cambria was designed by Jelle Bosma , Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas for Microsoft and, in addition to the character sets Latin, Latin (extended), Greek and Cyrillic, also contains a large set of mathematical and scientific characters.
Availability
In addition to Microsoft Office, it is included in the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 and in the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac , which Microsoft offers for free download, along with the other new fonts Calibri , Candara , Consolas , Constantia and Corbel . The font is retained after uninstalling the programs.
Free alternative: Caladea
Cambria is under a proprietary license. The font cannot be used without a license (which is usually acquired when buying a Microsoft Office package). For the problem of a missing license, Google offers the font "Caladea" under the open (free, freely available) license "Apache 2.0". It has the same spacing as Cambria, so that when printing or exporting to PDF (e.g. under Linux) a Cambria document looks practically the same as it does on the screen or under Microsoft Word. If Cambria is replaced with a completely different font when printing in the background, the layout will otherwise be greatly changed due to the different spacing. Under Ubuntu Linux you install the package "fonts-crosextra-caladea" for "Caladea".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cambria® Regular Font - Licensing Options | Linotype.com. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Caladea. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .