Footlight (typeface)

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Footlight (typeface) - Wikipedia

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Footlight

Category	Serif
Designer(s)	Ong Chong Wah
Foundry	Monotype Corporation
Date released	1986

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986^[1] for the Monotype Corporation.^[2]^[3] 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 roman version was later made.^[4]

Footlight MT

A version of Footlight's light style called "Footlight MT" (without italic) has been bundled with some Microsoft software.^[5]

Distribution

It has been distributed in the following products:

Unicode

Footlight MT has support for the following Unicode blocks:

References

^ Devroye, Luc. "Ong Chong Wah". luc.devroye.org. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^ "F | Monotype". www.monotype.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^ Perfect, Christopher, Gordon Rookledge, Phil Baines, Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85669-406-3, p. 78-79.
^ "Footlight® font family | Linotype.com". www.linotype.com. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^ Jacobs, Mike (20 October 2017). "Footlight MT font family - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 2019-02-11.

External links

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1940s	Figaro (1940)
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1960s	New Clarendon (1960) Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (public release) (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1967) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)
1970s	Photina (1972) News Plantin (1979) Calvert (1979)
1980s	Nimrod (1980) Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria
1990s	Ellington (1990) Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Columbus (1992) Strayhorn (1995) Cachet Gill Facia
2000s	Neo Sans Slate
2010s	Classic Grotesque (2012/2016) SST (2013) Joanna Sans (2015)
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