Arial
Arial is a Fonte of characters provided with several applications of Microsoft. It was drawn by Monotype as a substitute the cheaper than popular Helvetica drawn by the Swiss graphic designer max Miedinger of which the rights were repurchased by Linotype. Helvetica was one of the many police forces which were used for the printers supporting the language PostScript of Adobe Systems. A user specifying Helvetica could be certain that the printer would be able to return it correctly. Microsoft did not want to include Helvetica with Windows and deposited Arial like measures cost reduction.
Almost identical to Helvetica , in proportions as in thickness, the drawing of Arial is in fact an alternative of the series Grotesque of Monotype. Like several other police forces of Microsoft, Arial is little appreciated Typographe S professionals.
Arial was provided with Microsoft Windows since the introduction of technology TrueType with Windows 3.1. TrueType itself was thought to replace the police forces of the Type 1 used by PostScript. Microsoft also tried to supplant PostScript itself with its own version of Langage of description of impression, TrueImage.
The last versions of Microsoft Windows are also provided with Arial Unicode ms , a version of the police force including of many international characters of the standard Unicode. This version of police force is most complete in broad distribution, even if more complete police forces exist however - such Bitstream Cyberbit or Code2000.
Ultimate PostScript includes from now on Arial near Helvetica as a standard police force, that the PostScript printers of level 3 are supposed to support.
External bonds
- Information on the police force '' Arial '' (Microsoft typography)
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