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Fontgate History 10 Facts about Microsoft Calibri Font

Fontgate History 10 Facts about Microsoft Calibri Font
A typeface, Font  has sparked uproar in Pakistan after documents using the calibri font were produced in a corruption case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif despite being dated a year before the design was released.

Microsoft's Calibri font was used to type certified papers naming Sharif's daughter Maryam as a trustee for several of the family's high-end London properties.

The identity of the legal beneficiaries has formed part of the Sharif Family   probe, and the documents were meant to show that Maryam, who is Sharif's presumptive political heir, was a trustee only. Along with Maryam, two more of Sharif's four children -- his sons Hasan and Hussein -- were also implicated in the papers.

But the papers were dated February 2006 -- a year before the Calibri font in which they are typed was in widespread commercial use, according to its creator.

Facts History about Microsoft Calibri Font

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The Calibri font was designed to work with Microsoft’s ClearType system, which is an application used to make text easier to read on LCD monitors. Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel, are part of the same font family.
the font's creator, a Dutch designer named Lucas De Groot, told AFP in a statement that it was "unlikely" Calibri had been used in any official documents in 2006.
De Groot said he began designing Calibri in 2002 and sent the finalized version to Microsoft in 2004. After that, he said, it was used in beta versions that would have required "serious effort" to obtain.

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Font Name - Calibri
Family Name – Calibri
Version - 0.90
Other Versions - 5.72, 5.62, 5.00, 2.00, 1.02, 1.00
Other Variants - Calibri Bold, Calibri Bold Italic, Calibri Italic
File Name - calibri.ttf
Authors - Luc(as) de Groot
Copyright - © 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Trademarks - Calibri is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Font Vendor:    Microsoft Corp.

Current version – 5.72

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Calibri is a modern sans serif family with subtle roundings on stems and corners. It features real italics, small caps, and multiple numeral sets. Its proportions allow high impact in tightly set lines of big and small text alike. Calibri’s many curves and the new rasteriser team up in bigger sizes to reveal a warm and soft character.

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the first public beta versions of Calibri were published in 2006.

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In 2017, Calibri font was used as evidence in the Pakistani government–related "Panama Papers" case

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Calibri Light is introduced in Microsoft Windows 8 and later. Calibri and Calibri Light are the default fonts of Microsoft Word 2013

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Calibri won the TDC2 2005 award from the Type Directors Club under the Type System category

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Panama Papers means 100% truth just one has to tell how he or she got that money and does taxes were evaded or is that black money earned by doing corruption.

Pakistan Sharif Family connection Calibri Font and Panama Papers link –
When Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was named in the 2016 Panama Papers leak the Pakistan Supreme court ordered investigation and probe investigation into case started.

Sharif's children were linked to offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands which were then used to purchase expensive property in London, and the Pakistan federal investigation agency believed the properties were bought with laundered money.

Pakistan’s Federal Investigations Agency found that Sharif's daughter Maryam was the sole shareholder of one of two British Virgin Island companies which had invested in high-end London property, described by the agency as “ill-gotten wealth earned through corrupt practices.”

A report stated that Maryam had disclosed her ties to the British Virgin Island's firm in 2006 in a statement written in Calibri font. But Microsoft only made the font publicly available in 2007, leading to speculation that the documents could have been forged.

Because of this now this scam, scandal got the name "Fontgate”

The first public beta version was released on June 6, 2006, four months after Maryam Nawaz allegedly signed the papers.

Microsoft's Calibri font was used to type certified papers naming Sharif's daughter Maryam as a trustee for several of the family's high-end London properties.

The identity of the legal beneficiaries has formed part of the probe, and the documents were meant to show that Maryam, who is Sharif's presumptive political heir, was a trustee only.

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Calibri replaced Times New Roman as Word’s default typeface in 2007 and replaced Arial in Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Calibri became the default font in Office for Mac 2016. Its designer,

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Microsoft Products that supply Calibri Font





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2 comments:

Sujatha Sathya July 15, 2017  

Ooh! The Calibri and the shariff connection!! Who would have thought!