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Overview
Candara is a casual humanist sans with verticals showing a graceful entasis on stems, high-branching arcades in the lowercase, large apertures in all open forms, and unique ogee curves on diagonals. The resultant texture is lively but not intrusive, and makes for a friendly and readable text. Candara is a very useful typeface for email or web pages as well as for newsletters, booklets, and flyers.
There are almost no straight lines in Candara’s letters; instead, what appear to be long, straight strokes actually curve slightly inward in the middle, an effect that architects call “entasis.” In addition, diagonal strokes have a very slight double-S curve. At small sizes – or at a distance when looking at a classical building – these features make the lines look straight, but when you use Candara in a large headline, the subtle curves give it an unexpected elegance.
Candara’s italic is less architectural and more calligraphic in style than the upright letters, but they work very well together.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| File name | Candara.ttf Candarab.ttf Candaraz.ttf Candarai.ttf Candaral.ttf Candarali.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Candara Candara Bold Candara Bold Italic Candara Italic Candara Light Candara Light Italic |
| Designers | Gary Munch |
| Copyright | © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' slng:'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic 1258 Vietnamese Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
| Fixed pitch | False |
| Download | N/A – Exclusively included with Microsoft products and services where applicable. |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 | See the Windows 11 page. |
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
| Office 2007 | 1.02 |
| Office Mac 2008 | 2.00 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
Change list:
Windows 10 version 1809 released on November 13, 2018
The following two styles were added to the Candara font family
- Candara Light
- Candara Light Italic
These styles were created by Monotype.
Windows 7
The fonts were extended to support the Vietnamese language.
Windows Vista
Candara was introduced as part of the ClearType font collection. Initially it was available in four styles with a pan European language character set.
- Candara
- Candara Bold
- Candara Bold Italic
- Candara Italic