Segoe UI
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| font | Segoe UI |
| category | Sans serif |
| Font designer | Steve Matteson |
| Type foundry | Microsoft |
| publication | 2004 |
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The Segoe UI is a font family developed by Microsoft for the Windows Vista , Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems , which replaces the Microsoft font Tahoma as the sans serif standard font. According to Microsoft employees, it was based on the Segoe font, named after a street in Madison (Wisconsin) , from the company Monotype , which was supplemented with missing characters and processed with OpenType and ClearType for better screen display, easier scannability and software-based recording . Segoe is also Microsoft's house font. Microsoft gives the English pronunciation of "SEE-go", ie [ ˈsiːgoʊ ]. According to Microsoft, a text set in this font can be read better than with Tahoma , Microsoft Sans Serif or Arial .
Allegations of plagiarism
The Linotype company and typography experts accused Microsoft of having copied the Linotype font Frutiger Next exactly without a license, apart from small differences in "1" and "j", round instead of rectangular dots and a slight change in weight (line thickness) - similar ones There have already been allegations about the predecessor font Arial , which is suspected of being an imitation of Helvetica . Against Microsoft's registration of the font in the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market as a Community registered design successfully raised Linotype opposition. The office declared the protection of the Segoe UI null and void and described the design as “identical” to the Frutiger or Frutiger Next in the reasons for the decision after comparing the printed image.
Related writings
Microsoft Windows is supplied with different fonts for non-Latin writing systems, which also contain the Latin glyphs of the Segoe UI. An example is the Leelawadee for the Thai script . However, individual glyphs deviate from the Segoe UI (for example, in Leelawadee the uppercase letters "I" and "M" and the lowercase letters "i" and "l"), possibly by a more pleasing appearance of bits of text in Latin script for the actual target group of the respective font to reach.
Revision with Windows 8
Together with Windows 8 , Microsoft released a revised version of the Segoe UI that contains modified glyphs for various capital letters and numbers.
Extensions
To cover larger areas of Unicode , Microsoft is providing the Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Historic and Segoe UI Symbol fonts with Windows 10 .
Segoe UI has also been available since Windows 10 in the line widths light, semilight, normal (standard), semibold, bold and black (upright and italic). For the above, there is only one font style, not even italic ones.
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- ↑ Jensen Harris: Making the Letters Better , Blog November 16, 2005
- ↑ Named after the town planner Ladislas Segoe (1894–1983). Archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Jensen Harris: I Guess No One Cares About Fonts , blog November 28, 2005
- ↑ MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network): System Font (Segoe UI) (English)
- ↑ Fonts. Microsoft - Windows - Dev Center - Desktop, accessed October 5, 2012 .
- ↑ Image comparing Frutiger and Segoe UI on typeforum.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 .
- ↑ In 2005 there were small differences in "&", "I" and "Q" ( PDF file, English, by Ulrich Stiehl ; 96 kB)
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Windows Vista and its script. The belly of the "a" , December 20, 2005
- ↑ heise online: Plagiarism allegations against new fonts in Windows Vista , December 21, 2005
- ↑ Harmonization Office, Design Department: Decision of the Invalidity Department , February 6, 2006 (PDF file; 182 kB)
- ↑ Can you use the Leelawadee (Thai) font normally? Forum Typografie.info, accessed October 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Microsoft, Guidelines for fonts: Segoe UI stylistic sets ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
