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A: Thanks for your interest in Code Style and your survey submission. Tahoma has been a default font for all Windows systems for many versions now, it's the default font for the operating system windows, like Windows Explorer. The 93% frequency reported in the Windows font survey results indicates the degree of error in the survey.
A: Yes, the International Type Corporation produce a version of Zapf Chancery for Windows that is available from the ITC Web site.
See Anchor Points: Font foundries & sources for more font links.
A: The Apple fonts are not available for purchase for any platform, but see this MyFonts selection of chancery style fonts.
A: The number of Apple fonts present on Windows machines is very low, as one would expect with the exclusive distribution arrangement they have through the Mac operating system. The Apple fonts on Windows have most likely been manually ported by their owners or illegally distributed on the Web.
A: The combined font survey results show a mixture of fonts that are available on computers running Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The Apple icon to the left of the Lucida Grande results indicates that the font is very common on Mac. It is not at all common on Windows.
A: The Monotype Corsiva font is available through the Monotype Faces Web site and MyFonts in various formats.
A: Monotype signifies the name of the foundry that produces the Corsiva font, AGFA Monotype. You can also find a very broad range of fonts from many foundries on the MyFonts site.
A: The FIRSTHOME font family is distributed with the free Avery DesignPro label printing application. The FIRSTHOME font was produced by MediaCrest Incorporated in 1997, which became EnStep in 1988, both established by Fritz Richard.
The Avery package automatically installs FIRSTHOME with many other EnStep and MediaCrest fonts without user intervention. To date font survey submissions that include this font have exclusively been submitted from Windows XP computers, though only a tiny fraction of all submissions.
A: The freely available Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 also includes these fonts, which are installed with the program. The fonts included in the installation are Cambria, Cambria Math, Calibri, Constantia, Corbel, Candara and Consolas with italic, bold and bold italic variants.
A: The font Runic MT Condensed is by the font foundry Monotype and is installed with several Microsoft products: Greetings 99, Home Publishing 99, Picture It! 2000 and Picture It! 2002. If you re-install one of these applications the font should be restored.
Runic MT Condensed can also be purchased from the Ascender font foundry, see the . See this Runic MT Condensed page on Microsoft typography for full details.
A: In most cases it would break the terms of a font's end user license agreement (EULA) to re-distribute a font. If you want to buy these fonts a site like My Fonts has a very broad selection including Lucida Casual and Lucida Roman.
A: To install fonts on Windows systems, select the fonts folder under the Windows installation directory, e.g. c:\Windows\Fonts and choose Install New Font... from the File menu. Browse to the source of your new fonts using the Folders and Drives selectors and click OK to complete.
A: Uninstalling Windows fonts can imporove system performance, but you must keep certain system fonts. Overcoming Font Overload in Windows at About.com lists the Windows system fonts you must keep to preserve the integrity of your system, everything else should be safe to remove. From that base configuration you can re-install just the fonts you want.
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