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Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. It is named after the trebuchet, a medieval siege engine. The name was inspired by a puzzle question that Connare heard at Microsoft headquarters: "Can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?" Connare "thought that would be a great name for a font that launches words across the Internet". Released freely by Microsoft as part of their core fonts for the Web package, it remains one of the most popular body text fonts on webpages. ==Distinguishing characteristics== Connare commented in 2011 that, "inspiration came from many sources such as the motorway signage in America and sans serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk and Alternate Gothic." Writing on Typophile in 2005 and also in his 1997 article on Trebuchet, he also noted that a goal was to provide a typeface that worked well onscreen while providing a contrast in texture to Verdana. Notable features of Trebuchet include: *The splayed edges of the uppercase "M" which form a 10° angle with a vertical line, reminiscent of a tighter version of Futura. *The shape of the tail of the uppercase "Q", *The bar of the capital "A" is low, *The shortened tails of the lowercase "e" and the numerals "6" and "9", *The hybrid open and looped tail of the lowercase "g", *The rounded dots above and the shapes of the lowercase "i" and "j", *The curved tail beneath the lowercase "l", *Like Calibri, The dollar sign symbol "$", in which the vertical strike only appears above the top and below the bottom curves of the S, *The ampersand "&" in the form of an "Et" ligature and *The exclamation point "!", whose dot is large and round. *Italic fonts incorporate italic type characteristics instead of just tilting roman glyphs, making it the first sans serif font family from Microsoft to use true italic features. *The en dash and hyphen are essentially indistinguishable *The greek letter xi "Ξ" has a vertical crossbar, reminiscent of its Phoenician root glyph samekh Type designer Erik Spiekermann and others have suggested it resembles his FF Meta, which was extremely successful in the period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trebuchet MS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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