If you look at this page in the Sans Serif Font ID Guide, you can see other styles with similar shape characteristics to Trebuchet: Agenda (Font Bureau), Faceplate Sans (Psy/Ops), Mahsuri Sans (Agfa), Today Sans (Spiece), Parisine Bold(Agfa), and Projekt (Linotype). Of course details will not match in each font, like the serif on the 'i', or the curved 'l', or the open lower bowl on the 'g'.

However, finding an equivalent seems like an odd exercise for such a ubiquitous font. Doesn't Microsoft give it away?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1f0303ae-f055-41da-a086-a65f22cb5593&displaylang=en <--Try this?

Mike

The MS core fonts, including Trebuchet, are available from
Sourceforge.

I dont know about most ... but I for one appreciate all of the help from this forum. It is a valuable tool for the newbie. So thanks to all.

Wayne, I think it's safe to say that we all share your opinion!

Sorry for the delay, Yves.

Well, MS wants people to pay, not for the fonts per se, but for the
program(s) that bundle the fonts. That was the main point put to
me by an upper level MS Typography rep who actually replied to
my e-mailed inquiry (boy, was I surprised).

Outside opinion, based partly on the timing, was that Linux users
were being pointed to those fonts by many Linux resource sites
and were grabbing them in very large numbers.

Certainly it's MS' right to do with the fonts what they choose, but
increasingly they have been choosing to slap their customers
upside the head. The user of a properly purchased MS application
who has a font that has become corrupted cannot simply get a
replacement off the installation CD. The fonts don't exist as indi-
vidual files.

Personally, I feel that, after making sure that Arial, TNR and, to a
lesser extent, Verdana are specified in millions of HTML pages
around the world, MS ought to make these fonts available to all.

Of course, as Justin showed, the fonts are available elsewhere.

Microsoft DOES give them out, that office updateI linked to just installs a bunch of Standard fonts, including Trebuchet.

Sort of, Aleph. That download was not provided for MS' users
to replace missing/corrupted fonts. It's there so that users can
obtain updated "euro enabled" versions of the fonts. Plainly
missing are the regular Arial variants, Georgia and Times New
Roman.

It also likely does nothing for the many folks without MS apps
who visit web pages coded for Arial, TNR, Verdana, etc. I don't
know for sure about this download, but most MS installations
check for a valid MS application

MS Trebuchet is a very distinct face - regardless
if you like it or not - so it's pretty difficult to find an
acceptable match. Do you want to match principally
the uppercase or lowercase?

Link to the Lurrrve Thread! That's the great thing
about this place: though you can buy yourself into
the exclusive inner circle of Uppercase members ,
almost all the best stuff still is for free. So even if you're
a newbie you can count on it that you will be helped!

> Yet another example of MS's ... oh, never mind.

Mike, what do you think was MS's rationale behind this
move? Do they really expect people will want to pay for
their copy of MS Trebuchet or <gag> Comic Sans? :/