Footlight (typeface)

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Malaysian type designer Ong Chong Wah in 1986 for the Monotype Corporation. Footlight is an irregular design. It is sold in weights from light to extra-bold with matching italics. It was originally designed as an italic font, a roman version was later made.

Footlight MT

A version of Footlight's light style called "Footlight MT" (without italic) has been bundled with some Microsoft software.

Distribution

It has been distributed in the following products:

• Access 97 SR2
• Office 2000 Premium
• Office 2007
• Office 2007 Professional Edition
• Office 2010
• Office 4.3 Professional
• Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2
• Office 97 SR1a
• Office Professional Edition 2003
• PhotoDraw 2000
• Picture It! 2000
• Picture It! 2002
• Picture It! 98
• Publisher 2000
• Publisher 2007
• Publisher 97
• Publisher 98
• Windows Small Business Server 2003

Unicode

Footlight MT has support for the following Unicode blocks:

• Basic Latin
• Latin-1 Supplement

References

External links

• Microsoft Typography - Footlight MT
• Microsoft Typography - Footlight MT Light - Version 1.51
• Monotype's page for the entire Footlight family
• Identifont - Footlight