Eye Candy

As good fate would have it, I happened to stumble upon two really good Microsoft fonts yesterday -- Corbel and Consolas. Corbel is a clean proportional-width font, similar in some ways to Trebuchet, but a little more professional looking in my opinion. (The loopiness of Trebuchet is a little annoying, and the capital M always bothered me. Don't ask.) Consolas is a fixed-width font, almost entirely sans-serif like Lucida Console, except for a more Courier-looking lowercase g, i, and l. I've been satisfied with Lucida Console for programming, but it just falls a little bit short of great. But I think I've finally found a worthy successor.

By the way, don't even bother trying to run these without ClearType. You have been warned.

Unfortunately, these fonts aren't "free" (as in freedom), so I can't just post them for you to download. But they do come as a font pack for Visual Studio 2005 (if you have it installed) -- or for a lower-tech option, a little birdie told me that they come bundled with PowerPoint Viewer 2007.