Microsoft Sans Serif™ Arabic font is a very legible User Interface (UI) font. It was designed to be metrically compatible with the MS Sans bitmap font that shipped in early versions of Microsoft Windows. The original MS Sans was in the inflexible .fon bitmap format and could not be scaled. Microsoft Sans Serif Arabic is much more flexible and legible as it font anti aliasing and scalable user interfaces.

Microsoft Sans Serif Arabic contains an extensive character Set: Latin-1, WGL, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai. It will appear in the font menu as "Microsoft Sans Serif".

NOTE: You must have an application program that supports Arabic fonts, such as Microsoft Office for Windows or the Middle Eastern version of Adobe Creative Suite. Arabic fonts are not supported in Office 2008 for Mac.