Cambria (typeface)

Cambria
CategorySerif
ClassificationTransitional[1]
Designer(s)Jelle Bosma, Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas
Cambria Math: Jelle Bosma, Ross Mills, John Hudson, Geraldine Wade, Mike Duggan, Greg Hitchcock, Andrei Burago, Vivek Garg
FoundryMicrosoft, Tiro Typeworks (Cambria Math)
Date released2005
LicenseProprietary

Cambria is a transitional serif typeface commissioned by Microsoft and distributed with Windows and Office. It was designed by Dutch typeface designer Jelle Bosma in 2004, with input from Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas. It is intended as a serif font that is suitable for body text, that is very readable printed small or displayed on a low-resolution screen and has even spacing and proportions.[2]

It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista. All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on LCD monitors. The other fonts in the same group are Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Classifying Cambria was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Profile of Jelle Bosma". Monotype. Archived from the original on 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2014-11-25.