Marlett

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]

This article is about the typeface. For other uses, see Marlet and Marlette (disambiguation).
Marlett
CategorySymbol
Designer(s)Virginia Howlett et al.
FoundryMicrosoft
Date released1995
Marlett
ClassificationPi font
Other related encoding(s)Webdings

Character layout

Due to the specialised nature of the Marlett glyphs, many of the mappings shown are approximate.

Marlett
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x
3x ๐Ÿ—•[lower-alpha 1] ๐Ÿ—–[lower-alpha 1] ๐Ÿ——[lower-alpha 1] โด[lower-alpha 1] โต[lower-alpha 1] โถ[lower-alpha 1] โท[lower-alpha 1] โญณ[lower-alpha 2] ๐Ÿž‚ ๐Ÿžƒ
4x
5x
6x โœ”[lower-alpha 1] โœ“ ๐Ÿญฝ ๐Ÿญฟ โŽพ[lower-alpha 3] โŒ[lower-alpha 4] โฌ›[lower-alpha 1] โ€ข โ— โ—œ[lower-alpha 5] โ—ž[lower-alpha 6] โ—œ[lower-alpha 7] โ—ž[lower-alpha 8] โฌค[lower-alpha 1] ๐Ÿฎž
7x ๐Ÿฎž[lower-alpha 9] โ”€ ๐Ÿ—™[lower-alpha 1] โ“[lower-alpha 1] โฏ… โฏ† โฌ[lower-alpha 2] ๐Ÿž€ ๐ŸฎŸ ๐ŸฎŸ[lower-alpha 9]

See also
  • MouseText (a set of bitmapped characters used in later Apple II models for a similar function)

Footnotes
  1. Compare this position in Webdings.
  2. Approximate mapping: Marlett character lacks a vertical stem.
  3. Approximate mapping (smaller version of ๐Ÿญฝ)
  4. Approximate mapping (smaller version of ๐Ÿญฟ)
  5. Larger version, 180ยฐ arc on top left (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  6. Larger version, 180ยฐ arc on bottom right (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  7. 180ยฐ arc on top left (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  8. 180ยฐ arc on bottom right (mapping to quadrant arc is approximate)
  9. Bold version

References
  1. Description of and Troubleshooting the Marlett TrueType Font Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (Microsoft Knowledge Base)
  2. Notes on why the Marlett TrueType Font exists Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine (The Old New Thing - MSDN Blogs)
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