Segoe is a family of humanistic grotesque style fonts , best known for its use by Microsoft in its products, online publications, and marketing materials, including logos. The Segoe UI font subfamily is used in many Microsoft applications and comes with them (for example, Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Live Messenger 2009). It is also the default system font since Windows Vista and is used in outlook.com mail service. In August 2012, Microsoft introduced its new logo in Segoe font, which replaced the logo that has been used for the past 25 years.
| Segoe | |
|---|---|
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| Style | Grotesque |
| Classification | Humanistic grotesque |
| date of creation | 1994 [1] |
| Designer | Steve Mattson |
| Using | Microsoft |
The Segoe brand is owned by Microsoft, although the original headset was developed by Monotype .
Segoe supports the Cyrillic alphabet.
History
The Segoe headset was developed by Steve Mattson during his time at Agfa Monotype . The font was licensed by Microsoft for use in branded purposes and as a font for interfaces and was designed taking into account the requirements of friendliness and readability. Mattson created a set of fonts of various weights and italics in terms of humanistic style.
Versions
- Segoe UI Emoji - emoji font.
- Segoe UI Mono is a monospace font .
- Segoe UI Symbol - a font with support for special characters and some historical scripts (including the glagolitic ).
- Segoe UI Historic is a font with support for various historical scripts in Europe (including Glagolitic), the Middle East and India. Comes with Windows 10 .
- Segoe MDL2 Assets is a special character font designed to replace Segoe UI Symbol. Comes with Windows 10 .
- Segoe Marker - a font that imitates a letter with a felt-tip pen .
- Segoe Print and Segoe Script are fonts that mimic a manuscript.
- Segoe Chess - a font for "drawing" a chessboard .
- The font was used in the First Channel intros from 2009 to autumn 2012.