Forte is a

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Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the

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. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1.

Design

The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.Microsoft Typography - Forte
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sans-serif In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called " serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than s ...

and classical modern types. Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.

Unicode

Forte has characters in the following

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ranges:Microsoft Typography - Forte - Version 1.60
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Identifont - Forte

Fonts In Use

Design

Unicode

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