Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new font, Kermit. The new font helps children to read more easily, improves comprehension, and helps dyslexic readers. It does this by making letter-formation visible in real time, and enabling prosody to be represented typographically. Designed by Underware,  Kermit uses innovative Higher Order Interpolation to represent the act of writing strokes in digital form. The typeface ships with Office in the four basic styles, but is a variable font, so can be experienced in multiple style instances. The new font is introduced in Microsoft Design,  and there is a demo site on Kermit Font.

The Department supported in its way the project: the program manager at Microsoft is MATD alumnus Rob McKaughan, Gerry Leonidas and alumna Irene Vlachou helped with the Greek complement, and Aaron Bell (also an MATD graduate) hinted the fonts. Gerry also wrote one of the accompanying texts on the demo site.