Information for type users

If you are not using Microsoft Internet Explorer to view this page, text will be rendered using your default typeface. Your default typeface will also be used by Microsoft Internet Explorer if a listed font is not installed on your computer.

Windows 95

The following fonts come shipped with Windows 95.

Arial
Arial (Bold)
Arial (Italic)
Arial (Bold Italic)
Courier New
Courier New (Bold)
Courier New (Italic)
Courier New (Bold Italic)
Times New Roman
Times New Roman (Bold)
Times New Roman (Italic)
Times New Roman (Bold Italic)

These samples are displayed using the default <FONT SIZE=3>. We have also created a font size specimen page to show you how the Windows 95 fonts will appear in Microsoft Internet Explorer using settings from 1 to 7. This should help you choose the most legible font sizes for your documents.

Plus!

The following fonts are supplied with the Windows 95 Plus! pack so it's probably safe to assume that they will be installed on a large proportion of Windows 95 machines running Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, as the browser is also available in a downloadable form which does not include the fonts, there will be numerous users who do not have these fonts.

Book Antiqua
News Gothic MT
News Gothic MT (Bold)
News Gothic MT (Italic)
OCR A Extended
Abadi MT Condensed Light
Calisto MT
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Comic Sans MS
    Upgrade your Comic Sans MS
Lucida Sans Unicode
Lucida Handwriting

We have also created a font size specimen page to show you how the Plus! fonts will appear in various sizes.

Office

The following fonts come shipped with Office95, Office NT and Office 4.3.

Algerian
Book Antiqua
Book Antiqua (Bold)
Book Antiqua (Italic)
Book Antiqua (Bold Italic)
Arial Narrow
Arial Black
Arial Rounded Bold
Bookman Old Style
Bookman Old Style (Bold)
Bookman Old Style (Italic)
Bookman Old Style (Bold Italic)
Braggadocio
Britannic Bold
Brush Script MT
Colonna MT
Desdemona
Footlight MT Light
Garamond
Garamond (Bold)
Garamond (Italic)
Century Gothic
Haettenschweiler
Impact
Kino MT
Wide Latin
MS LineDraw
Matura MT Script Capitals
Playbill
Century Schoolbook
Century Schoolbook (Bold)
Century Schoolbook (Italic)
Century Schoolbook (Bold Italic)

Greek Symbols, Iconic Symbols ext, Typographic ext, Math ext and Multinational ext are also included with Office95.

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this document last updated 10 March 1996
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