Oct 20, 2020 Serif, Sonoran Sans Serif Headliner, Sonoran Sans Serif Condensed, and Sonoran Sans Serif Expanded licensed programs are six of the font licensed programs offered by IBM. These licensed programs provide fonts digitized for use on 240 dots-per-inch non-impact printers supported by Advanced Function Printing (AFP) software. IBM named the font Sonoran Sans Serif due to licensing restrictions and the manufacturing facility's location (Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert), and announced in early 1984 that the Sonoran Sans Serif family, 'a functional equivalent of Monotype Arial', would be available for licensed use in the 3800-3 by the fourth quarter of 1984. Aka Sonoran Sans Serif Arial is held in disregard by some professional typographers and type enthusiasts, for reasons relating to its similarity to other typefaces and the involvement of Microsoft in its development and distribution. IBM named the font Sonoran Sans Serif due to licensing restrictions and the manufacturing facility’s location (Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert), and announced in early 1984 that the Sonoran Sans Serif family, “a functional equivalent of Monotype Arial”, would be available for licensed use in the 3800–3 by the fourth quarter of 1984.
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Microsoft Sans Serif font is a very legible User Interface (UI) font. It was designed to be metrically compatible with the MS Sans bitmap font that shipped in early versions of Microsoft Windows.
| File name | Micross.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Microsoft Sans Serif |
| Designers | N/A |
| Copyright | © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Latn' slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn', 'Thai' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1255 Hebrew 1256 Arabic 1257 Windows Baltic 1258 Vietnamese 874 Thai Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 862 Hebrew 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 437 US |
| Fixed pitch | False |
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Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows XP | 1.33 |
| Windows 2000 | 0.93 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 1.33 |
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This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.