Fonts on the World Wide Web


Web fonts for Windows


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A screen capture taken from Microsoft Internet Explorer for
Windows 95 showing the fonts included within the font sets.


Each self-extracting executable file contains the TrueType font(s), an end user license agreement and installation instructions for Windows 95, Windows 3.1x and Windows NT.
    Even if you have Windows 95 installed, we recommend that you upgrade to these versions of Times New Roman, Courier New and Arial.

download arial.exe
[download: 397KB self extracting archive]
Contains; Arial, Arial Bold, Arial Italic and Arial Bold Italic.
download ariblk.exe
[download: 81KB self extracting archive]
Contains Arial Black.
download comic.exe
[download: 102KB self extracting archive]
Contains Comic Sans MS and Comic Sans MS Bold.
download courier.exe
[download: 457KB self extracting archive]
Contains; Courier New, Courier New Bold, Courier New Italic and Courier New Bold Italic.
download impact.exe [new]
[download: 92KB self extracting archive]
Contains Impact.
download times.exe
[download: 485KB self extracting archive]
Contains; Times New Roman, Times New Roman Bold, Times New Roman Italic and Times New Roman Bold Italic.

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The WGL4 Character Set
All of the fonts provided, with the exception of MS Comic Sans and MS Comic Sans Bold, include the full Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) character set. This character set contains 652 characters and covers multiple writing systems including Western, Central, and Eastern European, as well as characters required by Greek and Turkish.
    For detailed technical information about character sets and codepages please see our Character sets document. The WGL4 character set is listed in Chapter 4 of the TrueType 1.0 Font File Specification


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