MS Sans Serif
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MS Sans Serif is a proportional raster font introduced in Windows 3.1. It is the default system font on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows ME. Starting from Windows 2000, the default desktop scheme uses Tahoma (MS Sans Serif is still used on some dialog boxes). MS Sans Serif was available in the font sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24. When changing dpi settings in Windows 95 or later (in Windows 3.1, dpi setting is tied to screen resolution, depending on driver information file), Windows is configured to load a different MS Sans Serif font.
Today, the font is still available in Windows XP, and is still used in menus, dialog boxes, etc.
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[edit] Microsoft Sans Serif
Microsoft Sans Serif is a TrueType variant of MS Sans Serif sold by Ascender Corporation, and is found in Windows 2000 or later. Version 1.41 of the font includes 2,257 glyphs covering extended Latin characters (including IPA extensions), diacritical marks, Greek (with extensions), Coptic, Cyrillic, Hebrew (including extensions), Arabic (including extension, presentation forms), Thai, international currency, mathematical symbols. This font also contains most glyphs shipped with any version of Windows, excluding fonts supporting East Asian ideographs.
[edit] Example
The following paragraph will be in MS Sans Serif if you have it on your system. If not, a monospace font will be used:
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[edit] Criticisms
Some older applications do not use Microsoft Sans Serif, which can create problems when ClearType is used [1].
