Trebuchet Fonts

The puzzling question heard from within Microsoft headquarters was "can you build a trebuchet (a medieval catapult) that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?" This how the name of the Trebuchet fonts came to and it is the vehicle that fires your messages across the Internet – ‘Launch your message with Trebuchet’ fonts.

Trebuchet Fonts Packages

• Trebuchet Font Family
  $110.00
  
• Trebuchet Regular
  $30.00
  
• Trebuchet Italic
  $30.00
  
• Trebuchet Bold
  $30.00
  
• Trebuchet Bold Italic
  $30.00
  

The Trebuchet font is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. It is named after the trebuchet, a medieval catapult device. The name is a response from the puzzle question Vincent Connare heard from within Microsoft headquarters. The question was "can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?"

The Trebuchet typeface family, like Verdana and Georgia, was created for use on the screen.

Designed and engineered in 1996 by Microsoft’s Vincent Connare, it has a strong and distinct appearance. Taking different elements from both the geometric and humanist classifications of sans serif type - Connare acknowledges the influence of designs as diverse as Gill Sans, Erbar, Frutiger, Akzidenz Grotesk and the US Highway signing system – the Trebuchet font animates any page with energy and personality. Its letterforms, loosely based on sans serif typeface designs of the 1920s and 1930s, carry a large x-height and clean lines designed to promote legibility, even at small sizes.