Arial Fonts

The Arial Font TrueType edition has shipped as part of Microsoft Windows since 1992. The inclusion of the Arial font with Windows has made it one of the most widely distributed and used typefaces in the world.

Arial Fonts

Arial Packages

Arial Font Family
Arial Light Font Family
Arial Black Font Family
Arial Narrow Font Family
Arial Monospaced Font Family
Arial Rounded Fonts
Arial Unicode
Arial Font Family - Arabic
Arial Font Family - Hebrew
Arial Font Family - Vietnamese

The Arial™ font is a contemporary sans serif design with humanist characteristics that was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. The Arial font is computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X, and many PostScript computer printers.

The Arial font family consists of standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded. Contemporary sans serif design, the Arial font 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 application of Arial Font curves is softer and fuller than in most commercial sans serif typefaces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the Arial font face a less mechanical appearance. Arial fonts are an extremely versatile font family which can be used with equal success for text setting in documentes, reports, presentations, magazines, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Arial™ Unicode is a Unicode™ compliant font that contains nearly 50,000 characters and supports many languages. The Arial Unicode font includes support for the Asian languages (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean) as well as for all the languages used in major commercial markets including  Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi (Devanagari) and other Indic languages.

Arial Unicode is a contemporary sans serif design with humanist characteristics also designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. The overall treatment of Arial's curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif faces. The Arial Unicode font has terminal strokes that are cut on the diagonal, which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance.

The Arial Unicode font is a 22MB file, containing glyphs for all code points within The Unicode Standard, Version 2.1. The Arial Unicode font is a valuable resource for software developers. (Developers can obtain font license information on Arial Unicode from Ascender Corp)

 

Arial is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.