What looks like a fairly old interview by Daniel Will-Harris about Microsoft’s family of fonts for screen with their designer, Matthew Carter, and Simon Earnshaw, Microsoft typographer, athough it’s a little unclear who says what.

Interesting that Verdana is essentially a looser-spaced Tahoma – which was originally designed as a Windows 95 system font, and that this was the first time they’d started with bitmaps for conmmonly used screen sizes and worked out outlines for print and larger sizes afterwards.

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