Candara

Candara

Category	Sans-serif
Designer(s)	Gary Munch
Foundry	Munchfonts, Microsoft
Sample

Candara is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Gary Munch and commissioned by Microsoft. It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista, all starting with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system. The others are Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Corbel and Constantia.

Features

Candara’s verticals show both entasis and ekstasis on opposite sides of stems, high-branching arcades in the lowercase, large apertures in all open forms, and unique ogee curves on diagonals. Its italic includes many calligraphic and serif font influences, which are common in modern sans-serif typefaces. Calibri and Corbel, from the same family, have similar designs and spacing.^[1]

The family supports most of the WGL4 character set. OpenType features include automatic ligature sets, numerals (tabular, proportional, oldstyle and lining), numerator, denominator, scientific inferior subscripts, and small caps.

It is also distributed with various free Office viewers,^[2][3][4] the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack^[5] and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.^[6]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Candara (typeface).

• Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". Poynter Online. Retrieved 2006-06-05. 
• Microsoft ClearType Font Collection at Microsoft Typography
• Munchfonts: Candara

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