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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Windows 7 typefaces, Windows Vista typefaces, Windows XP typefaces, Verdana, Arial, Courier, Segoe, Meiryo, Comic Sans, Wingdings, Trebuchet MS, Cambria, Consolas, MS Sans Serif, Georgia, Sylfaen, Andale Mono, Calibri, Century Gothic, Tahoma, Fixedsys, Microsoft YaHei, Malgun Gothic, Corbel, Twentieth Century, Candara, Impact, Webdings, Lucida Sans Unicode, Constantia, Terminal, Mangal, Dotum, Haettenschweiler, System, Microsoft JhengHei, Westminster, Vrinda, Ebrima, Marlett, Latha, Nyala, MS Serif, Roman. Excerpt: Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, some other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X and many PostScript computer printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography. Monotype is the current owner of the copyrights for the Arial font software programs. Arial is also a typeface family comprising standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded. Arial was originally known as Sonoran Sans Serif. It acquired its current name when Microsoft started to include it in Windows. Version 2.76 or later includes Hebrew and Arabic glyphs, with most of Arabic added on non-italic fonts. Version 5.00 added support for Latin-C and Latin D, IPA Extension, Greek Extended, Cyrillic Supplement, Coptic characters. Helvetica (in red) overlaid with Arial (in blue) Embedded in version 3.0 of the OpenType version of Arial is the following description of the typeface: 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...
