Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986 for the

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. Footlight is an irregular design. It is sold in weights from light to extra-bold with matching italics. It was originally designed as an italic font, a

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version was later made.

Footlight MT

A version of Footlight's light style called "Footlight MT" (without italic) has been bundled with some

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software.

Distribution

It has been distributed in the following products: *

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* Office Professional Edition 2003 *

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* Picture It! 2000 *

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* Publisher 2000 * Publisher 2007 * Publisher 97 * Publisher 98 * Windows Small Business Server 2003

Unicode

Footlight MT has support for the following

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blocks: * Basic Latin *

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References

External links

Microsoft Typography - Footlight MT

Microsoft Typography - Footlight MT Light - Version 1.51

Monotype's page for the entire Footlight family

Identifont - Footlight
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