Verdana is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation and the font was finalised by hand by Thomas Rickner at Monotype. Virginia Howlett from the typographic team of Microsoft understood the requirement of such a font, so Steve Ballmer asked Virginia to create it; the name is derived from the word verdant (green) and Ana, the name of Howlett’s daughter.
Verda was created as a part of the humanist sans-serif type family like Frutiger for computer displays of rather low resolution for its time to ensure the clear and easy-to-read text at small sizes. Like other fonts in this particular category, Verdana has a large size of x-height, or tall lowercase letters, wider proportions, and more slack letter-spacing style than some printed fonts such as Helvetica.
To differentiate between various strokes of one another, wide apertures and counters have been incorporated, and in order to enhance the legibility of body texts, similar appearing letters have been designed to stand out.
Verdana Font Family
License: Personal Use Only!
Font Type: Free
Format: TTF
Total Files: 1
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After download and unzip, the list of fonts in the folder does not include “Verdana Italic”. My web design app says “incompatible font” for the italic version. The font seems to display, but is not detected by name during opening of a document. This has only occurred in recent months. Windows font family shows all four versions. Any idea why my app thinks the font is “unsupported”?