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to the Tahoma font. This was done because Tahoma is available by default on Windows, and many applications expect the font to be available. Before Wine included a Tahoma replacement font, some applications, such as
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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
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As of 2016, Tahoma is still widely in use as a standard in multiple applications and programming environments. For example, a new
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Maxa, Rudy. "Northwest to the Max" documentary series. Seattle episode. 2006. American Public Television, in association with
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packaging and promotional material. Bundled in the font library of Windows, the typeface was widely used as an alternative to
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announced that Tahoma would be bundled with the next version of
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Category
Sans-serif
Classification
Designer(s)
Matthew Carter
Foundry
Microsoft
Nina
humanist sans-serif
typeface
Matthew Carter
Microsoft Corporation
Verdana
computer font
Office 97
Verdana
counters
Unicode
bitmap font
TrueType
Arial
Ascender Corporation
small caps
Frutiger
Bell Centennial
Native American
stratovolcano
Mount Rainier
Seattle

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