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Link to Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : New Fonts For Documents

Aldous Huxley wrote:

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
Typography for the Twentieth-Century Reader
Aldous Huxley

So we will see, at any rate.  The new versions of Microsoft Office now ship with new default fonts and type faces.  Added to the ubiquitous Arial, Verdana, Courier (New) and the loathsome Times New Roman are the new defaults of Calibri, Cambria, Consolas, Candara, Constantia and Corbel. (more…)

 Ho Ho Ho… Santa Brian has come to town and is giving you software…

Lately, several people have asked me about PDF software for their computers. Most people think that Adobe Acrobat is required to read and create PDF format documents. That's simply not true, and given that Acrobat Pro is several hundred dollars and has many more features than most of us need, let me try to simplify things and offer you alternatives. (more…)