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Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to create a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. It included the proprietary fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows and in BinHexed Stuff-It archives (".sit.hqx") for Macintosh. These packages were published as freeware under a proprietary license imposing some restrictions on usage and distribution. Microsoft terminated the project in 2002, but thanks to the license terms, the distributed files are still legally available from some third-party websites. Updated versions of the fonts produced since 2002 have not been published as freeware and are usually available only after purchasing a license or as a part of some commercial products.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MONOTYPE IMAGING, INC - END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Monotype Imaging - Licensing Options )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft Typography - Fonts - Core fonts for the Web )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft Typography - Arial )〕 ==Overview== The fonts were licensed to Microsoft by Monotype Corporation or designed for Microsoft by Microsoft's own font designers or external designers. The fonts were designed to: * Be highly legible on screen; * Offer a wide range of typographic “timbres” within a small number of typefaces; and * Support extensive internationalisation. These design goals and the fonts' broad availability have made some of them extremely popular with web designers. However, these proprietary fonts (or some of them) are not distributed with some modern operating systems by default (e.g. in Android, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris or some Symbian versions)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Software Packages in "lucid", Subsection fonts )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Software Packages in "lucid", Subsection x11 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.2) -multiverse- )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fonts supplied with UNIX / XFree and GhostScript )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nokia Sans font for download? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Licenses for Fonts Used in Qt for Embedded Linux )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FreeBSD - webfonts )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=fonts/msttcorefonts – Microsoft TrueType core fonts )〕 and they are substituted by other fonts (e.g. by free software fonts, such as Liberation fonts, Ghostscript fonts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Linux and Unix family font survey results )〕 Droid fonts, DejaVu fonts and others). All of these fonts in their latest versions are installed by default in the latest versions of Mac OS X (i.e. Mac OS X 10.4 and newer), but older versions of Mac OS X did not install some of them by default (e.g. Andale Mono, Impact) and old versions of Mac OS also did not include many of them (e.g. Arial).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mac OS X 10.3: Fonts list )〕 Some of these fonts are also not installed by default in iOS (e.g. Andale Mono, Comic Sans MS, Impact, Webdings).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=iOS Fonts )〕 While the project has formally ended, the benefits of using broadly available fonts remain: to increase the likelihood that content will be displayed in the chosen font, or in a metric-compatible alternative. In addition to the Core fonts for the Web, some newer fonts, such as those packaged with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org or other software could form a new canon of core fonts. Broader web browser adoption of the web fonts specification may ultimately render the notion of core fonts obsolete by allowing the real-time downloading and display of specific fonts. 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「Core fonts for the Web」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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