This article is about the typeface. For other uses, see Marlet. For and, see Marlette (disambiguation).
Marlett
StyleSymbol
Releasedate1995
CreatorVirginia Howlett et al.
FoundryMicrosoft
Marlett
OtherrelatedWebdings
ClassificationPi font

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.

See also

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

References

  1. ^ "Description of and Troubleshooting the Marlett TrueType Font". Microsoft Support. Microsoft. 2006-11-15. Archived from the original on 2010-12-28.
  2. ^ Chen, Raymond (2012-01-16). "Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?". The Old New Thing. Microsoft. Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine.