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Tahoma

Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft.

About Tahoma

Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft. Microsoft first distributed it, along with Carter's Verdana, as a computer font with Office 97. While similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters, much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set. Carter first designed Tahoma as a bitmap font, then "carefully wrapped" TrueType outlines around those bitmaps. Carter based the bold weight on a double pixel width, rendering it closer to a heavy or black weight. In contrast with some other sans-serif typefaces, including Arial, the uppercase "I" (i) is distinguishable from lowercase "l" (L), which is especially important in technical publications. Since 2010, Ascender Corporation has offered italic and small caps versions of Tahoma.

From the Wikipedia article “Tahoma (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Tahoma in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

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