Sonoran Sans Serif Font

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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Overview

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 nameMicross.ttf
Styles & WeightsMicrosoft Sans Serif
DesignersN/A
Copyright© 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Font vendorMicrosoft Corp.
Script Tagsdlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Latn'
slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn', 'Thai'
Code pages1252 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 pitchFalse

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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 nameFont version
Windows 10See the Windows 10 page.
Windows 8.1See the Windows 8.1 page.
Windows 8See the Windows 8 page.
Windows 7See the Windows 7 page.
Windows Vista5.00
Windows XP1.33
Windows 20000.93
Windows Server 20085.00
Windows Server 20031.33

Sonoran Sans Serif Font Download

Sonoran Sans Serif Font

Sonoran Sans Serif Font Definition

This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.

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Style & weight examples