#Microsoft sans serif wikipedia windows

New OpenType scripts include Arabic URD (Urdu), Cyrillic (default), Hebrew (default), Latin (default, Romanian), Thai (default).

#Microsoft sans serif wikipedia windows

Version 5.00 (supplied with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) includes 3053 glyphs (2788 characters, 36 blocks), which extended Unicode ranges to include Arabic Supplement, Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement, Combining Half Marks, Latin Extended-C, Latin Extended-D, Phonetic Extensions, Phonetic Extensions Supplement, Specials, Superscripts and Subscripts. Additional OpenType features includes rlig for Arabic scripts. New OpenType scripts include Arabic MAR script. Version 1.41 (supplied with Windows XP SP2) includes 2257 glyphs (2301 characters, 28 blocks), which extended Unicode ranges to include Combining Diacritical Marks, Currency Symbols, Cyrillic Supplement, Geometric Shapes, Greek Extended, IPA Extensions, Number Forms, Spacing Modifier Letters. OpenType features includes init, isol, medi, fina, liga for default Arabic script. Font is smoothed at 0-6 points, hinted at 7-14 points, hinted and smoothed at 15 and above points. Version 1.10 of the font includes 1119 glyphs (1209 characters, 26 blocks), supporting Unicode ranges Alphabetic Presentation forms, Arabic, Arabic Presentation forms A-B, Cyrillic, General Punctuation, Greek and Coptic, Hebrew, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended Additional, Mathematical Operators, Thai. Capital R, which was designed in the style of original Helvetica in the original MS Sans Serif, is instead a compromise between Helvetica and the straight-diagonal descender in Arial the descender curves at the top and is a straight diagonal at the bottom. For example, the tail in the lowercase 'a' is shortened to a vertical stem in Microsoft Sans Serif, the top of the stem on the lowercase 'f' curves down instead of horizontally, the hook at the descenders of 'y' and 'j' are hooked up in Microsoft Sans Serif, the strokes in the middle of digit '8' intersect at a different angle. The PostScript font name is MicrosoftSansSerif.ĭespite being a vectorized replacement, there are subtle design changes. This font also contains most glyphs shipped with any version of Windows until Windows Vista, excluding fonts supporting East Asian ideographs. Microsoft Sans Serif is a TrueType font that is designed as a vectorized, metric-compatible variant of MS Sans Serif, distributed with Windows 2000 and later. FON file (on the original raster/bitmap variant), it is seen that the font was designed by Microsoft Corporation in 1987 (font sizes 8, 10, 12 and also a portion of the 8514/a version), also in 1985 by Xiphias, Los Angeles, CA (font sizes 14, 18, 24), also the 8514 version contains typefaces designed by Bitstream Inc. Also, according to the strings hidden in the. When changing the DPI settings in Windows 95 or later, Windows loads a different MS Sans Serif font, historically called the ' 8514' variant, which adds sizes 23 and 30 points (high DPI versions of sizes 18 and 24 respectively). MS Sans Serif is available in the font sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24.

A Euro symbol was added to this font for the release of Windows 98.

MS Sans Serif is the default system font on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows ME. OS/2 and its successor ArcaOS still name the font 'Helv'. 'Helv' is still a valid alias for MS Sans Serif.

In Windows 3.1, the bitmap font was renamed MS Sans Serif.

Microsoft Sans Serif's predecessor is Helv (a shortened form of Helvetica), a bitmap font included with Windows 1.0 and later.