Footlight (typeface)

Footlight

Category	Serif
Designer(s)	Ong Chong Wah
Foundry	Monotype Corporation
Date released	1985

Footlight is a serif typeface designed by Ong Chong Wah 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, the roman version followed.

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

External links

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

Monotype typefaces
1900s	Old Style (1901) Modern Extended (1902) French Round Face (1906) Scotch Roman (1907 and 1920) Goudy Light (1908)
1910s	Veronese (1911) Forum Title (1911) Italian Old Style (1911) Imprint (1912) Plantin (1913) Caslon Old Face (1915)
1920s	Garamont (1921) Bodoni (1921) Garamond (1922) Baskerville (1923) Poliphilus and Blado (1923) Fournier (1925) Goudy Heavy (1925) Engravers Horley Old Style Grotesque (1926) Barbou (1926, private use) Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua (1928) Gill Sans (1928 onwards) Centaur with Arrighi (1929) Bembo (1929) Deepdene (1929) Goudy Sans (1929)
1930s	Lutetia (1930) Bell (1931) Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman (1932) Monoline Script Rockwell (1933) Walbaum (1933) Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck (1935) Emerson (1936) Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus (1936) Albertus Joanna (1937, for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt (1937) Van Dijck (1937) Pegasus (1937) Matura (1938) Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer (private use)
1940s	Figaro
1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum (1955) Angelus Klang (1955) Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar (1957) Headline Bold Mercurius Script Dante (1959) Joanna (general release) (1958) Pepita (1959)
1960s	Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1966) Bulmer (1967) (general release) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)
1970s	Photina
1980s	Calvert Nimrod Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria
1990s	Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Gill Facia Cachet
2000s	Neo Sans Slate
2010s	Joanna Sans (2015)
Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.