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If you are reading this on a Windows machine, there is a good chance you have ignored Tahoma for the better part of two decades. You have scrolled past it in dropdown menus. You have seen it power the tabs of your old Internet Explorer. You have watched it render the system dialogs of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista—dutiful, clean, and utterly invisible.

They are correct. Tahoma Italic is not elegant. It is not a Venetian Renaissance masterpiece. tahoma italic

.retro-italic { font-family: 'Tahoma', 'Segoe UI', 'Geneva', sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; /* The sacred pixel size */ letter-spacing: 0px; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; /* To preserve that jagged edge */ } Slap that on a modal dialog box. Put it on a tooltip. Use it for a caption that you want to feel slightly off, slightly human. If you are reading this on a Windows

Tahoma Italic is the font of the scrappy startup of 1998. It is the font of the USB driver installer that actually worked. It is the font of the error message that saved your thesis because you actually read the italics. You have watched it render the system dialogs

I feel at home.