Arial font family
Overview
A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.
Arial version history
Version 2.55 - This WGL4 version of Arial was first supplied with the Final Windows 95 euro update that shipped on 4 November 1998. This version contains the euro.
Version 2.50 - This version of Arial is supplied with European versions of Windows 98. North American users can add it by installing multilanguage support. This version contains the euro.
Version 2.45 - This Win ANSI version of Arial is supplied with the US version of Windows 98.
Version 2.01 - This special version of Arial is only supplied with the beta version of the Windows 95 euro update patch.
Version 2.00 (Win ANSI) - This Win ANSI version of Arial is supplied with Windows 95.
Version 2.00 (WGL4) - This WGL4 version of Arial is supplied with Windows 95 and Windows NT4. This version does not contain the euro.
Version 1.00 - This version was supplied with Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| File name | Arial.ttf Arialbd.ttf Arialbi.ttf Ariali.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Arial Arial Bold Arial Bold Italic Arial Italic |
| Designers | Monotype Type Drawing Office - Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders 1982 |
| Copyright | © 2017 The Monotype 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 | Agfa Monotype Corporation |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn' |
| 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 OEM OEM Character Set 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 864 Arabic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 862 Hebrew 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 708 Arabic; ASMO 708 850 WE/Latin 1 437 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 SP2 | 3.00 |
| Windows XP | 2.95 |
| Windows 2000 | 2.76 |
| Windows 98 Second Edition | 2.76 |
| Windows 98 | 2.50 |
| Windows 95 | 2.00 |
| Windows 3.1 | 1.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.01 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 2.95 |
| Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 | 2.00 |
| Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4 | 2.50 |
| Windows NT Workstation 4.0 | 2.00 |
| Windows NT Workstation 3.5 | 1.77 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
