Tahoma font family
Overview
Tahoma is one of Microsoft's new sans serif typeface families. It consists of two Windows TrueType fonts (regular and bold), and was created to address the challenges of on-screen display, particularly at small sizes in dialog boxes and menus.
Since the Tahomas are TrueType fonts, they can be rotated and scaled to any size, and anti-aliased by the rasterizer built into Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. These features give the fonts significant advantages over bitmap system fonts such as MS Sans Serif.
Designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by leading hinting expert, Monotype's Tom Rickner, Tahoma sets new standards in system font design. It is ideal for use in User Interface Scenarios and other situations requiring the presentation of information on the screen.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| File name | Tahoma.ttf Tahomabd.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Tahoma Tahoma Bold |
| Designers | Matthew Carter |
| Copyright | © 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Hebrew OpenType Layout logic copyright © 2003 & 2007, Ralph Hancock & John Hudson. This layout logic for Biblical Hebrew is open source software under the MIT License; see embedded license description for details. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn', 'Thai' slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn', 'Thai' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1255 Hebrew 1256 Arabic 1257 Windows Baltic 1258 Vietnamese 874 Thai Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 862 Hebrew 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 437 US |
| Fixed pitch | False |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 | See the Windows 11 page. |
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.01 |
| Windows XP | 3.00 |
| Windows 2000 | 2.30 |
| Windows 98 | 2.25 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.01 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 3.00 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
