Ascender Serif™ Italic was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing serif design that is metrically compatible with Times New Roman™. Ascender Serif ™ Italic offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms. Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish).