Tahoma
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| font | Tahoma |
| category | Sans serif |
| Font classification | sans serif linear antiqua |
| Font designer | Matthew Carter |
| Client | Microsoft |
| Creation | 1995 |
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The Tahoma is a linear sans -Schrift that 1,995 of Matthew Carter for Microsoft was designed. It is similar to Carter's Verdana , which was also developed for display on the screen, but has a smaller spacing between the letters. To this end, the scope of Unicode support has been increased: while the Verdana only contains Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters, Tahoma also supports Arabic, Hebrew and Thai.
Tahoma was superseded by the Segoe UI font in Microsoft Windows Vista . According to Microsoft, texts written in Segoe UI can be read up to five percent faster.