
Properties of all the fonts of which the UA is aware. The User Agent makes (or accesses) a database of relevant CSS 2.1.Possible across UAs (assuming that the same library of font faces is Insure that the results of this matching process are as consistent as The properties are matched in a well-defined order to
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Setting font properties will be among the most common uses of style
15.8 Shorthand font property: the 'font' property 15.1 Introduction. 15.7 Font size: the 'font-size' property. 15.6 Font boldness: the 'font-weight' property. 15.5 Small-caps: the 'font-variant' property. 15.4 Font styling: the 'font-style' property. 15.3 Font family: the 'font-family' property. Arial® is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Extended glyphs: Monotype Type Drawing Office, Monotype Typography.ĭigitized data copyright (C) 1993-2000 Agfa Monotype Corporation. Original design: Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders. Follow the links below if you have dependencies on it. However, updated versions of the font are available from Monotype. We stopped servicing and updating Arial Unicode and no longer install it as part of Office. Over time the Unicode standard grew to the point where it was not possible to include all encoded characters in a single font file, so today most applications rely on font linking or font fallback to provide appropriate language support when a selected font doesn’t include the characters you need. The font was included with Office but not Windows. Arial Unicode MS was originally commissioned by Microsoft Office as an extended version of the Arial typeface to support a large set of international characters.