Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7

In Windows 7, The support for text and fonts in GDI continues to provide the foundation for compatibility and application support. Building on the foundation of the modern DirectX graphics infrastructure, Windows 7 enhances the text output available to developers with DirectWrite. This is a new API subsystem and one that over time you will see adopted more broadly by applications from Microsoft, independent software developers, and within Windows itself.

One of the high-level goals of Windows 7 is to have even better graphics – graphics with higher fidelity. To that end, my team is looking into how to improve one of the most basic graphic elements in Windows, and that is text – the thing that’s always right in your face, but we hope you’ll never actually see it.

• The need for good text

• Improving current techniques

• New APIs

• Font Art

  

• Fonts and Font Management

• Operating System	Fonts shipped “in-box”
  Windows XP SP2	133
  Windows Vista	191
  Windows 7	235 (currently planned)