Web fonts program stopped
Tuesday 13 August 2002
I have praised Georgia and Verdana, the very screen-legible typefaces designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft, saying: You can download them for free. It’s one offer from Bill Gates I recommend you accept.
Now, when you go to the Microsoft Typography website you get this churlish message: Microsoft’s TrueType core fonts for the Web are no longer available for download from www.microsoft.com. What’s going on?
Stephen Coles commented on 13 August 2002
I guess MS was pissed that people were bundling and hacking the fonts right and left. See typographica for more.