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take a look at this 
what font is used on the left List Box "PC settings" until "Windows Update"? it sure looks beautiful
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The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 will use Segoe WP everywhere.
Segoe UI is the Windows font intended for user interface text strings. Segoe is a branding font used by Microsoft and partners to produce material for print and advertising. Segoe UI is an approachable, open, and friendly typeface, and as a result has better readability than Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, and Arial.
Even though the default fonts provided by Microsoft—Segoe UI for Windows 10, and Segoe UI variable for Windows 11—looks pretty neat on the screen, you don't have to settle if you have grown bored with them; especially when you can easily alter them with the Windows Registry.
It's Segoe UI.
More information about typography and fonts in Windows 8 is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh700394.aspx
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Right. Segoe UI. But actually a lot of it is Segoe UI Light and there is a difference. If you check out the link on Microsoft site (Font samples) you will see that their samples are all large and the font looks okay like that.
However, it is when the font is smaller (as it is most of the time it is used and as it is in Visual Studio 2012) that it looks terrible.
When Coca-Cola Co. tested their New Coke product back in the 80s they gave people a shot-glass sized taste. People picked it in blind taste tests over Pepsi in large percentages. Coke thought they had killed Pepsi. Release the New Coke and everyone will like it better than Pepsi. They released it and everyone hated it. What?
The problem was that they had made New Coke much sweeter. In the small shot-glass size everyone liked it better, but drinking an entire can of it was sickening. Fail!
Same thing with Segoe UI font. Looks great when you zoom in on it. But looks terrible at normal font sizes.
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