Cambria
  • Designers

    Jelle Bosma and Ross Mills, with John Hudson, Steve Matteson, Robin Nicholas and Ruben Tarumian, and assisted by David Březina

  • Release history

    • 2004

      Version 1.00

      Initial Microsoft release

    • 2025

      Version 6.99

      Initial Tiro Release

  • License Agreement

The core design of Cambria and initial math alphanumeric set was designed for Microsoft by Jelle Bosma, as part of the ClearType Collection project managed by John Hudson and Geraldine Wade in the early 2000s. The Cyrillic and Greek sets were contributed by Jelle’s colleagues Steve Matteson and Robin Nicholas; further script extensions were made by John Hudson with assistance from David Březina. The more recent Armenian script extension was designed by Ruben Tarumian. The Cambria Math font was developed by Ross Mills, working closely with the math layout team at Microsoft headed by Murray Sargent. 

Cambria has been a key family in Microsoft Office products since its initial release in 2004, second-only to the default Calibri typeface. As such, it has been steadily expanded beyond the pan-European set of the ClearType Collection fonts, and supports an extended Latin and Cyrillic character set. The Cambria Math font was the first font published with an OpenType MATH table, and set the standard for mathematical typesetting in Microsoft Word and other software as well as being compatible with various recent versions of TeX.

Microsoft font family sold under M‑Product License.
TrueType OpenType format only.

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Credits

Typeface credits

  • Jelle Bosma

    Core design

  • Ross Mills

    Math font design and development

  • John Hudson

    Project management and language extensions

  • Steve Matteson

    Cyrillic and Greek design

  • Robin Nicholas

    Cyrillic and Greek Design

  • Ruben Tarumian

    Armenian design

  • David Březina

    Language extensions

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