Gabriola (typeface)

Gabriola

Category	Display
Designer(s)	John Hudson
Foundry	Microsoft Corporation
Date released	2008

Gabriola is a display typeface designed by John Hudson for the Microsoft Corporation.^[1] It is named after Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.^[1] Versions of Gabriola have been used in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2010.^[2]

Design

Gabriola was inspired by an idea from music.^[1] Gabriola was developed with advanced OpenType features and has been optimized for ClearType rendering to improve legibility on screen.

Distinguishing Features

Easily identifiable and/or unusual features include:

• The flourish of capital "Q"s extend far below the following letter.
• The flourish of lower case "f"s and both lower and capital "j"s/"J"s extend far below the previous letter.

References

External links

• Identifont - Gabriola
• http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/larrylarsen/the-importance-of-gabriola

Microsoft Windows typefaces
Latin, Greek, Cyrillic	Arial, Arial Rounded Arial Unicode MS Bauhaus 93 Broadway Book Antiqua Calibri Calisto MT Cambria Candara Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Consolas Constantia Cooper Black Copperplate Gothic Corbel Courier New Franklin Gothic Medium Gabriola Georgia Goudy Stout Harlow Solid Italic Impact Lucida Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif News Gothic MT OCR A Extended Palatino Linotype Segoe Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana Westminster Wide Latin
Hebrew	Aharoni Arial Courier New Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif Segoe UI Mono Tahoma Times New Roman
Arabic	Arial Courier New Microsoft Sans Serif Segoe UI Tahoma Times New Roman
Thai	Microsoft Sans Serif Segoe UI Mono Tahoma
Chinese	Simplified Microsoft YaHei SimHei SimSun Traditional Microsoft JhengHei MingLiU
Korean	Batang Dotum Gulim Malgun Gothic (no Hanja before Windows 8)
Japanese	Meiryo MS Gothic MS Mincho
Indic scripts	Gautami Nirmala UI Vrinda
Other	Cambria Math Ebrima Euphemia Gadugi Marlett Nyala Sylfaen Symbol Webdings Wingdings
List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows