In 2007, Apple announced that Tahoma would be bundled with the next version of Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"). Bundled in the font library of Windows, the typeface was widely used as an alternative to Arial. Tahoma was the default screen font used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (replacing MS Sans Serif) and was also used for Skype and Sega's Dreamcast packaging and promotional material. Tahoma was an official font supplied with Office 97, Office 2000, and Office XP, and was freely distributed with Word Viewer 97. The Tahoma typeface family was named after the Native American name for the stratovolcano Mount Rainier (Mount Tahoma), which is a prominent feature of the southern landscape around the Seattle metropolitan area. In an interview by Daniel Will-Harris, Carter acknowledged that Tahoma has some similarities with his earlier Bell Centennial typeface.
Tahoma is often compared with Frutiger, another humanist sans-serif typeface. Since 2010, Ascender Corporation has offered italic and small caps versions of Tahoma. In contrast with some other sans-serif typefaces, including Arial, the uppercase " I" (eye) is distinguishable from lowercase " l" (ell), which is especially important in technical publications. Carter based the bold weight on a double pixel width, rendering it closer to a heavy or black weight. Carter first designed Tahoma as a bitmap font, then "carefully wrapped" TrueType outlines around those bitmaps. While similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters, much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set.
Microsoft first distributed it, along with Carter's Verdana, as a standard font in the initial release of Windows 95. Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation.
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