
I wonder what the history of the Arial font is: More recently Arial Rounded has also been widely bundled. The most widely used and bundled Arial fonts are Arial Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, along with the same styles of Arial Narrow, plus Arial Black and Black Italic. Many of these have been issued in multiple font configurations with different degrees of language support. The extended Arial type family includes even more styles: Rounded (Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold) Monospaced (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique). The Arial typeface comprises many styles: Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Light, Light Italic, Narrow, Narrow Italic, Narrow Bold, Narrow Bold Italic, Condensed, Light Condensed, Bold Condensed, and Extra Bold Condensed. The typeface was designed in 1982 by a 10-person team, led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, for Monotype Typography.


Fonts from the Arial family are packaged with all versions of Microsoft Windows, some other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X and many PostScript 3 computer printers. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:Īrial, sometimes marketed or displayed in software as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and set of computer fonts. The type on this blog is styled in the Arial font.
