Candara is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Gary Munch and commissioned by

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. It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with

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, all starting with the letter ''C'' to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's

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text rendering system. The others are

Calibri Calibri () is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista. In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Time ...

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and Constantia.

Features

Candara's verticals show both convex and concave curvature with

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and

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on opposite sides of stems, high-branching arcades in the lowercase, large apertures in all open forms, and unique

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curves on diagonals. Its italic includes many calligraphic and serif font influences, which are common in modern sans-serif typefaces. Calibri and Corbel, from the same family, have similar designs and spacing. The family supports most of the

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character set.

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features include automatic ligature sets, numerals (tabular, proportional, oldstyle and lining), numerator, denominator, scientific inferior subscripts, and small caps. It is also distributed with Microsoft

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, the

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Compatibility Pack for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1
/ref> It is not available as a freeware for use in other operating systems such as Linux, cross-platform use, and web use.

References

External links

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Microsoft ClearType Font Collection
at Microsoft Typography

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