Chrome OS Looks to Refresh Standard Fonts
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News, Tips
With a new operating system comes a new set of fonts. Or so it may seem.
The three standard ones that appear to currently be available closely mimic the most popular ones for the Windows platform. The three - Tinos, Arimo and Cousine, make an attempt to refresh the old standard Times, Arial and Courier.
As you can see from the comparison above, they fonts are very much similar, even down to the namesake given to each new one. This is an attempt to create something new for the platform, yet keep it familiar enough so that people know what fonts that they are using and are easily readable on the web for those who switch from a Windows or Mac platform.
OMGUbuntu also has these fonts available for installation for use if you are a user of that Linux platform.
8 Responses to “Chrome OS Looks to Refresh Standard Fonts”
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Jake Rocheleau
26. Sep, 2010
Google is really pushing it these days
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Alan Hogan
26. Sep, 2010
“As you can see from the comparison above, they fonts are very much similar”
Are you kidding me? Arimo looks like a good stand-in for Arial (or Helvetica), I’ll give you that.
But Tinos is **clearly** not at all like Times. Its upper serifs are horizontal, not at an angle. It doesn’t even have a true italic face, just an oblique!
And Cousine is obviously monospaced, but that’s virtually the only thing it seems to have in common with Courier; the latter has more serifs and a less “condensed” feel.
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Daniel Cawrey
27. Sep, 2010
To the average eye these look similar. That’s all I’ve tried to present with this article.
Daniel Cawrey
27. Sep, 2010
They are just trying to create their own standard.
Justin
04. Oct, 2010
The significant similarities with these fonts to their Windows counterparts is in their metrics. Just as Arial was designed to match the size and spacing of Helvetica, these fonts were designed to be “metrically compatible” with Arial, Times and Courier, allowing them to be substituted without having the text reflow.
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