North American users can add it by installing multilanguage support. Version 2.50 - This version of Arial is supplied with European versions of Windows 98. Arial version history Version 2.55 - This WGL4 version of Arial was first supplied with the Final Windows 95 euro update that shipped on 4 November 1998. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance.
The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century.
