About Arial Font
Arial is a contemporary Sans-serif typeface that follows the Neo-grotesque style. It was designed by a team headed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype typography in 1982. Arial was initially developed for IBM’s 240-DPI 3800–3 laser xerographic printer and IBM changed the name of the font to Sonoran Sans-serif to avoid licence restriction. However, the font became popular through Microsoft after being included in the Font Suite of the Windows 3.1 operating system since 1992. Later, the font became available for Mac OS X and all Postscript based laser printers. Arial font was created to be metrically equivalent to the Helvetica typeface so it can be used to display and print documents without owning a license for Helvetica.
Arial has more humanist characteristics than most of the nineteenth-century faces. It has rounder, fuller and softer curves, has terminal strokes in diagonal cuts and displays less mechanical appearance. The font contains more than 30 distinctive styles including Medium, Regular, Bold Italic, Narrow Italic, Excess Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Condensed, Condensed Medium, Black Italic, CE Regular, Light-weight and more. All the individual styles have been created with about 144 language support capacities, which allow them to be accessible across the globe.
Arial font family comprises many versions, including Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Arial Light, Arial Rounded etc. The typeface is great to be used in the body texts. It can also be used to design logos and posters. Arial has become the default font on Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Usage
Arial has become a popular screen font over the years. The user-friendly typeface of Arial has led to its widespread use. The font is readable in both small and large sizes and is easy to use on multiple applications.
Arial font is often used in advertising, book designing and office communication. The font is convenient to be used for posters and large printing for its narrow widths. Arial can also be used on official documents, cards, letters, logos, booklets, diagram annotations, educational materials, instructional manuals, brochures, banners, presentation slides and more.
Arial is also widely used to design websites and games. Arial font family is a favourite of many brands and organizations because of its versatility, which is why it can be seen on every type of platform.
Supported Language
Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, Persian, German, French, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kurdish (Latin), Azerbaijani (Latin), Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Romanian, Dutch, Greek Polytonic, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh (Latin), Serbian (Latin), Czech, Serbian (Cyrillic), Hebrew, Bulgarian, Swedish, Belarusian (Latin), Belarusian (Cyrillic), Croatian, Slovak, Finnish, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Irish, Estonian, Basque, Icelandic, Luxembourgian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, and Japanese in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew, Hangul, Georgian, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Xhosa, Zulu, and other scripts. (Please note that not all languages are available for all formats).
Arial Font Family
The following are Arial Font family:
- Arial Light
- Arial CE Italic
- Arial CE Bold Italic
- Arial Light Italic
- Arial Regular
- Arial CE Regular
- Arial Medium
- Arial Medium Italic
- Arial Bold
- Arial CE Bold
- Arial Bold Italic
- Arial Condensed
- Arial Condensed Light
- Arial Condensed Bold
- Arial Condensed Extra Bold
- Arial Extra Bold
- Arial Extra Bold Italic
- Arial Black
- Arial Black Italic
- Arial CE MT Black Regular
- Arial Monospaced Regular
- Arial Monospaced Bold
- Arial Monospaced Oblique
- Arial Monospaced Bold Oblique
- Arial Narrow Regular
- Arial Narrow Italic
- Arial Narrow Bold
- Arial Narrow Bold Italic
- Arial Narrow Inclined
- Arial Narrow Bold Inclined
- Arial Rounded Light
- Arial Rounded Bold
- Arial Rounded Regular
- Arial Rounded Extra Bold
Arial Font Pairing
Arial can be paired with the following fonts:
- Georgia
- Oswald
- Verdana
- Segoe UI
- Bourgeois
- Open Sans
- Bebas Neue
- Helvetica Neue
- Lucida Grande
- Times New Roman
Font FAQs
Ans: Arial is a neo-grotesque Sans-serif typeface, also marketed as Arial MT in various applications.
Ans: Yes, Arial font is safe and secure to be used on both PC and MAC.
Ans: Yes, the closest alternatives to Arial on Google Fonts are Lato, Roboto and Open Sans.
Ans: Yes, you can use Arial font on every possible online platform but for commercial use, you need to buy the license.
Ans: If you follow the PC or Mac instructions links, you can easily install Arial Font and make it available on your computer.
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Font Information
Font Name: Arial
Designer: Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders
License: Free For Personal Use
| Classification | Sans-serif |
| Release/ Publishing Date | 1990 |
| Version | 3.000 |
| Glyph Count | 1674 |
| Character | 1419 |
| Format | TrueType |
| Character Range | Basic Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Coptic, Latin Extended-A, Latin-1 Supplement, and more.. |
| Copyright | © The Monotype Corporation plc. Data © The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. |
| Font subfamily: | Regular |
| Similar Font | Deja Vu, Calibri, Gandhi, Aileron, Browallia, Helvetica, Humanist, Collaborate, Cartogothic, Adagio Sans, Myriad Pro |
