What is the Arial® font?
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.
The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. More…
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.
Arial® Font families
The Arial® includes the following font families:
- Arial
- Arial Italic
- Arial Bold
- Arial Bold Italic
- Arial Black
- Arial Black Italic
Arial® Preview
Here is a preview of how Arial® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.

You're probably thinking - Is Arial® available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. Arial® is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of Arial®, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for Arial® and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for Arial® is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of Arial® and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of Arial®.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Arial® for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free Arial® Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Arial® remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Arial® and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)