Master this font, and you master the quiet art of dependable typography. Have questions about Arial’s OpenType features or need help extracting the exact TrueType version from your system? Leave a comment below or consult Microsoft’s Typography documentation for advanced hinting instructions.
| Font | Best For | OpenType Features | Weight 700 Quality | |------|----------|-------------------|--------------------| | Helvetica Neue | High-end branding | Alternate numerals, case-sensitive forms | Crisp, neutral | | Roboto (Google Fonts) | Mobile apps, Material Design | Small caps, fractions, tabular figures | More humanist, friendly | | Inter (Free) | UI design, dashboards | Contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures | Tall x-height, excellent screen rendering | | Noto Sans | Multilingual Western + other scripts | Full extended Latin, Cyrillic, Greek | Consistent global weight | | Liberation Sans | Document compatibility (replace Arial legally) | Basic OpenType | Slightly lighter, open counters | font arial normal opentype truetype version 700 western best
body font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; /* Normal */ Master this font, and you master the quiet
h1, strong, b font-family: "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-weight: 700; /* Version 700 Bold */ | Font | Best For | OpenType Features
/* Best performance: Preload the bold variant if using self-hosted / @font-face font-family: 'Arial'; src: url('arial-bold.woff2') format('woff2'), url('arial-bold.ttf') format('truetype'); / TrueType fallback / font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD; / Western subset */