Typeface	Trebuchet MS
Category	Sans-serif
Classifications	Humanist sans-serif
Designer(s)	Vincent Connare
Foundry	Microsoft Corporation
Date released	1996

Examples of distinguishing characteristics

Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises History Ancient usages Sans-serif letter forms can be found in Latin Etruscan, and Greek inscriptions for as early as 5th century BC History Ancient usages Sans-serif letter forms can be found in Latin Etruscan, and Greek inscriptions for as early as 5th century BC A type designer is a person who designs Typefaces Some type designers are employed by Type foundries, or operate them Vincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house Font designer Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans fontand the Trebuchet MS font both A type foundry is a Company that designs and/or distributes Typefaces Originally type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) History Ancient usages Sans-serif letter forms can be found in Latin Etruscan, and Greek inscriptions for as early as 5th century BC In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises Vincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house Font designer Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans fontand the Trebuchet MS font both Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer It is named after the trebuchet, a medieval siege engine. A trebuchet or trebucket is a Siege engine that was employed in the Middle Ages either to smash Masonry Walls or to throw The name is a response from the puzzle question Vincent Connare heard from within Microsoft headquarters. The question was "can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically is it possible and how?"

Distinguishing characteristics

Trebuchet MS distinguishes itself from other common sans-serif typefaces through several characteristics, the most notable of which include:

• The splayed edges of the uppercase M which form a 10° angle with a vertical line,
• The shape of the tail of the uppercase Q,
• The bar of the capital A is low,
• The shortened tails of the lowercase e and the numerals 6 and 9,
• The hybrid open and looped tail of the lowercase g,
• The rounded dots above and the shapes of the lowercase i and j,
• The curved tail beneath the lowercase l,
• The dollar sign symbol, in which the vertical strike only appears above the top and below the bottom curves of the S,
• The ampersand in the form of an "Et" ligature and
• The exclamation point, whose dot is large and round. An ampersand ( &) also commonly called an " 'and' sign," is a Logogram representing the conjunction "and"
• Italic fonts incorporate italic type characteristics instead of just tilting roman glyphs, making it the first sans serif font family from Microsoft to use true italic features. In Typography, italic type /ɪˈtælɪk/ or /aɪˈtælɪk/ refers to cursive Typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic Handwriting. Oblique type (or slanted, sloped) is a form of type that slants slightly to the right used in the same manner as Italic type.

Microsoft refers to Trebuchet MS as 'a good web design font', and it is one of their 'Core fonts for the Web'. Web page design is a process of conceptualization planning modeling and execution of Electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form Core fonts for the Web was a project begun by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of Fonts for the Internet Trebuchet MS has been included with several Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system, components of the Office productivity suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE) commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical It is the default typeface for title bars in Windows XP (when using the default Luna theme: for Windows Classic, either Tahoma or Microsoft Sans Serif are commonly used). In Computing, the title bar (or titlebar) consists of that part of a window where the title of the window appears Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and LUNA was a computer product line of OMRON Tateishi Electric from the late 1980s and the beginning of 1990s

In some versions of the font (those shipped with Windows 2000 and early versions of Internet Explorer), the opening quotation mark character was flipped vertically. This error was fixed in later versions. [1]

Trebuchet MS has been released with the Microsoft Windows operating system since Microsoft Windows 2000. The typeface has been released with Internet Explorer since version 4. 0 and Microsoft Word since Word 2000. For further release information visit the Microsoft typography website.

External links

• Trebuchet MS font information (Microsoft typography)
• Trebuchet Nation, a short article describing the evolution of Trebuchet MS (Microsoft typography)
• Trebuchet MS downloadable executable, courtesy of the corefonts project.