The expanded Pro version is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2010, along with an expanded version of the Georgia typeface (Verdana’s serif companion). In Ikea’s 2010 catalog, the company replaced the venerable Futura font family with Verdana, which has just four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic.Īs fortune would have it, right now the team behind the original Verdana is working on an improved, expanded Verdana typeface family designed for use in both print materials and on screen. Also, its four limited styles of regular, italic, bold, and bold italic just don’t provide enough options for a sophisticated design. Because Verdana was designed for low-resolution on-screen use, its wide-open letterspacing make it inappropriate for use in printed materials, they claim. For example, the Swedish furniture retailer Ikea recently began using Verdana in its printed materials, which caused an uproar among designers around the world. The typeface Verdana was released in 1996 as an easy-to-read font for Websites, and in the intervening years, it has been used and misused in just about every imaginable way.
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