Footlight (typeface)

Footlight
CategorySerif
DesignerOng Chong Wah
FoundryMonotype Corporation
Date released1986

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:

Unicode

Footlight MT has support for the following Unicode blocks:

References

  1. ↑ Devroye, Luc. "Ong Chong Wah". luc.devroye.org. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  2. ↑ "F | Monotype". www.monotype.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. ↑ Perfect, Christopher, Gordon Rookledge, Phil Baines, Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85669-406-3, p. 78-79.
  4. ↑ "Footlight® font family | Linotype.com". www.linotype.com. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  5. ↑ Jacobs, Mike (20 October 2017). "Footlight MT font family - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Retrieved 2019-02-11.