Arial

Arial is a sans-serif typeface family designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders of the Monotype drawing office. Microsoft describes its softer, fuller curves and diagonal terminal strokes as giving the face a less mechanical appearance than many industrial sans-serif designs. The family is intended for both text setting and display uses, including reports, presentations, magazines and advertising.

The documented family includes regular, bold, italic and bold italic styles, with font files Arial.ttf, Arialbd.ttf, Arialbi.ttf and Ariali.ttf. Those family-level details do not establish the exact internal font revision bundled by this legacy distribution.

This Homebrew catalog entry points to arial32.exe in the SourceForge Microsoft TrueType core-font collection. It is a font package, not a standalone graphical Mac application. The backend records its version as latest; that label does not identify a numbered upstream Arial release. Microsoft documents several historical Arial versions, but none has been asserted as the exact revision of this package.

Arial is proprietary font software. Review the applicable font license and redistribution terms rather than treating the fonts as open-source merely because the archive is hosted on SourceForge. No official source-code repository has been established for the typeface.

Official family description, designers and licensing links: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/arial Recorded distribution: https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the fonts/final/