

The hand-drawn Arial artwork was completed in 1982 at Monotype by a 10-person team led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders and was digitized by Monotype at 240 DPI expressly for the 3800-3. The most widely used and bundled Arial fonts are Arial Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic the same styles of Arial Narrow and Arial Black. Many of these have been issued in multiple font configurations with different degrees of language support. The extended Arial type family includes more styles: Rounded (Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold) Monospaced (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique).

The Arial typeface comprises many styles: Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Light, Light Italic, Narrow, Narrow Italic, Narrow Bold, Narrow Bold Italic, Condensed, Light Condensed, Bold Condensed, and Extra Bold Condensed. It was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface, with all character widths identical, so that a document designed in Helvetica could be displayed and printed correctly without having to pay for a Helvetica license. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, for.
