Tahoma Fonts

In 1994, Matthew Carter designed the Tahoma font family and Ascender’s own leading hinting expert, Tom Rickner hand instructed it, for the Microsoft Corporation. The Tahoma font is one of Microsoft’s most popular humanist sans serif font families. The Tahoma font family is perfect for use in User Interface applications and other situations requiring visualization on screen displays.

Tahoma Fonts Packages

• Tahoma Font Family
  $56.00
  
• Tahoma Regular
  $30.00
  
• Tahoma Bold
  $30.00
  

• Tahoma Small Caps Font Family
  $36.00
  
• Tahoma Small Caps
  $20.00
  
• Tahoma Small Cap Bold
  $20.00
  

• Tahoma Font Family - Arabic
  $98.00
  
• Tahoma - Arabic
  $49.00
  
• Tahoma Bold - Arabic
  $49.00
  

• Tahoma Font Family - Hebrew
  $98.00
  
• Tahoma - Hebrew
  $49.00
  
• Tahoma Bold - Hebrew
  $49.00
  

• Tahoma Font Family - Thai
• Tahoma - Thai
  $49.00
  
• Tahoma Bold - Thai
  $49.00
  

• Tahoma Font Family - Vietnamese
  $98.00
  
• Tahoma - Vietnamese
  $49.00
  
• Tahoma Bold - Vietnamese
  $49.00
  

The Tahoma font family was based on the Native American name for the strato-volcano Mount Rainier (Mount Tahoma) which is an unmistakable feature of the southern landscape around the Seattle metropolitan area.

The Tahoma font is very comparable to Verdana or Fruitiger, but with a narrower body, less generous counters, tighter letter spacing, and a more complete Unicode character set. Originally created as a bitmap rather than outlines, the bold weight is heavy. Being based upon a double pixel width the bold weight is more similar to a heavy or black weight.

The Tahoma font is also the default screen font used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (replacing MS Sans Serif). Bundled for inclusion in the font library of Windows, the typeface is widely used as an alternative to Arial.

The Tahoma font family is one of Microsoft's most popular sans serif typeface families. Tahoma font family consists of two Windows TrueType fonts (regular and bold), and was created to address the challenges of on-screen presentation, particularly at small sizes in dialog boxes and menus.

The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic font characters were designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by top hinting expert, Tom Rickner. Tahoma font family sets new standards in system font design.