In the 90’s Microsoft donated the standard Web Core Fonts that most every browser uses today and those core fonts have remained unchanged until now. With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has unleashed something quite new on the Web — the “C” fonts; Cambria, Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel. Here’s how to download them for free and how to use them in your web sites.

Vista includes 6 new web fonts (all begin with C as in core). All of these fonts have been expertly tuned to look great both on the screen (even LCDs) and on paper.

Here’s their names and what they look like.

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