Footlight (typeface)

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Footlight
Footlight.tiff
CategorySerif
Designer(s)Ong Chong Wah
FoundryMonotype Corporation
Date released1986

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986[1] for the Monotype Corporation.[2][3] Footlight is an irregular design. It is sold in weights from light to extra-bold with matching italics. It was originally designed as an italic font, the roman version followed.[4]

Footlight MT[]

A version of Footlight's light style called "Footlight MT" (without italic) has been bundled with some Microsoft software.[5]

Distribution[]

It has been distributed in the following products:

  • Access 97 SR2
  • Office 2000 Premium
  • Office 2007
  • Office 2007 Professional Edition
  • Office 2010
  • Office 4.3 Professional
  • Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2
  • Office 97 SR1a
  • Office Professional Edition 2003
  • PhotoDraw 2000
  • Picture It! 2000
  • Picture It! 2002
  • Picture It! 98
  • Publisher 2000
  • Publisher 2007
  • Publisher 97
  • Publisher 98
  • Windows Small Business Server 2003

Unicode[]

Footlight MT has support for the following Unicode blocks:

References[]

  1. ^ Devroye, Luc. "Ong Chong Wah". luc.devroye.org. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  2. ^ "F | Monotype". www.monotype.com. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. ^ Perfect, Christopher, Gordon Rookledge, Phil Baines, Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85669-406-3, p. 78-79.
  4. ^ "Footlight® font family | Linotype.com". www.linotype.com. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  5. ^ Jacobs, Mike (20 October 2017). "Footlight MT font family - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 2019-02-11.

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