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Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface that Matthew Carter designed for Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft first distributed it, along with Carter's Verdana , as a computer font with Office 97 . While similar to Verdana , Tahoma has a narrower body, smaller counters , much tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set.
Carter's most used typefaces are the classic web typefaces Verdana and Georgia and the Windows interface typeface Tahoma, as well as other designs including Bell Centennial, Miller and Galliard. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He is the son of the English historian of printing Harry Carter (1901–1982) and cofounded Bitstream , one of the first major ...
[4] [5] His parents were Claude Augustus Sprigg and Pearl Alice Irene née Germein, who married on 17 September 1913 in Stansbury. [6] Reg was their third and youngest child, a brother to D'Arcy Kingsley [7] [8] [9] and Constance Vera [10] (Connie). His father's family were pastoralists, whilst the Germein family were mariners. [11]
Tahoma is a name for the volcano otherwise known as Mount Rainier. The nearby city of Tacoma, Washington was named for the volcano. Tahoma can also refer to:
A sprig is a single stem snipped from the plant. [12] It is composed of a woody stem with paired leaf or flower clusters ("leaves") spaced 15 to 25 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 inch) apart. A recipe may measure thyme by the bunch (or fraction thereof), or by the sprig, or by the tablespoon or teaspoon.
The Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX was an experimental aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop known as a propfan.The engine was designed in the 1980s to power proposed propfan aircraft such as the Boeing 7J7 and the MD-91 and MD-92 derivatives of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80.
The International Harvester Corporation 304-cubic-inch (5.0 L) SV "Comanche" V8 engines are sometimes mistaken for the AMC 304, however, the IHC V8 engine family has no relation to the AMC V8 and was in fact first produced in 1959, 11 years prior to the AMC designed 304. The similarity in displacement is purely a coincidence.
The seed heads are produced in a cluster of two to six spikes together at the top of the stem, each spike 2–5 cm (0.79–1.97 in) long. [ 5 ] It has a deep root system; in drought situations with penetrable soil, the root system can grow to over 2 metres (6.6 ft) deep, though most of the root mass is less than 60 centimetres (24 in) under the ...