Arial

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 was originally designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas of Monotype, as a sans serif typeface for low-resolution laser printers; it was later developed, with Patricia Saunders of the Monotype drawing office, into a full typeface family, which Microsoft licensed as one of the core set of fonts for Windows 3.1 in 1992. 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 2.01 - 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. This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page. Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic? Ask Learn is an AI assistant that can answer questions, clarify concepts, and define terms using trusted Microsoft documentation.