Marlett

This article is about the typeface. For other uses, see Marlet and Marlette (disambiguation).
Marlett
CategorySymbol
Designer(s)Virginia Howlett et al.
FoundryMicrosoft
Date released1995
Marlett
ClassificationPi font
Other related encoding(s)Webdings

Marlett is a TrueType font that has been used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95. The operating system uses this font to create user interface icons that are used in the menus and windows.[1] Examples are the close, maximize and minimize buttons that are made from the individual glyphs in the font. This was important to allow the users to scale the user interface and have the icons scale with the elements.[2]

Character layout

Due to the specialised nature of the Marlett glyphs, many of the mappings shown are approximate.

Marlett
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x
3x 🗕[a] 🗖[a] 🗗[a] ⏴[a] ⏵[a] ⏶[a] ⏷[a] ⭳[b] 🞂 🞃
4x
5x
6x ✔[a] ✓ 🭽 🭿 ⎾[c] ⏌[d] ⬛[a] • ● ◜[e] ◞[f] ◜[g] ◞[h] ⬤[a] 🮞
7x 🮞[i] ─ 🗙[a] ❓[a] ⯅ ⯆ ⬍[b] 🞀 🮟 🮟[i]

See also

  • MouseText (a set of bitmapped characters used in later Apple II models for a similar function)

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Compare this position in Webdings.
  2. ^ a b Approximate mapping: Marlett character lacks a vertical stem.
  3. ^ Approximate mapping (smaller version of 🭽)
  4. ^ Approximate mapping (smaller version of 🭿)
  5. ^ Larger version, 180° arc on top left (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  6. ^ Larger version, 180° arc on bottom right (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  7. ^ 180° arc on top left (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  8. ^ 180° arc on bottom right (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  9. ^ a b Bold version

References

  1. ^ Description of and Troubleshooting the Marlett TrueType Font Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (Microsoft Knowledge Base)
  2. ^ Notes on why the Marlett TrueType Font exists Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine (The Old New Thing - MSDN Blogs)

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