{"id":25433,"date":"2007-08-23T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/08\/23\/which-windows-font-is-named-after-a-tabloid-headline\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:00:01","slug":"which-windows-font-is-named-after-a-tabloid-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070823-01\/?p=25433","title":{"rendered":"Which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Daniel Will-Harris <a href=\"http:\/\/www.will-harris.com\/verdana-georgia.htm\"> explains the background of several Windows fonts<\/a>, including the story of where the names for some of the fonts came from. Do you know which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline about aliens? <\/p>\n<p> On the topic of font history, the designer of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare, has written a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/typography\/web\/fonts\/comicsns\/default.htm\"> on the font&#8217;s history<\/a> on Microsoft&#8217;s typography site, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connare.com\/comic.htm\"> a longer discussion<\/a> on his personal site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Will-Harris explains the background of several Windows fonts, including the story of where the names for some of the fonts came from. Do you know which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline about aliens? On the topic of font history, the designer of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare, has written a bit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-25433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Daniel Will-Harris explains the background of several Windows fonts, including the story of where the names for some of the fonts came from. Do you know which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline about aliens? On the topic of font history, the designer of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare, has written a bit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}