MS Sans Serif font missing

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As far as I know, if MS Sans Serif is not available on your mac (which is normal) it will not behave better than Pages.

M…oSoft itself dropped MS Sans Serif in Windows Seven.

If you search on the net, you will find sites offering the named font but, as they required a registration I didn't downloaded it.

Here are quite every monospaced fonts which I installed here.

Maybe you will be interested by some of them :

Andale Mono (659 glyphs)

AurulentSansMono-Regular (267 glyphs)

Consolas (2731 glyphs)

DejaVu Sans Mono (3161 glyphs)

Droid Sans Mono (612 glyphs)

Free Monospaced (2576 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono Light 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono Light Cond 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Liberation Mono (663 glyphs)

Menlo Regular (3157 glyphs)

monofur (675 glyphs)

Monoxil (275 glyphs)

OCR A Std (270 glyphs)

Prestige Elite Std (374 glyphs)

TeX Gyre Cursor (1242 glyphs)

Tiger (1388 glyphs)

Tiger Expert (1172 glyphs)

Verily Serif Mono (244 glyphs)

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 26 février 2012

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Hi Mike

The author of the bulletin *may* be using MS Sans Serif for match results (chess) and league tables in the newsletter because it is a fixed width font. That is, it'd let him/her set out tables of data so that they line up vertically. If you do suggest the author use another font, and this is why MS Sans Serif is used, you may need to suggest a fixed width font that's available on both platforms eg Courier, etc.

Cheers.

Dale

Hello Dale

It would be a very good advice because, as I wrote, MS Sans Serif is not available in Window 7…

Here I repeat my list of mono spaced fonts because :

(1) yesterdays I forgot some available ones

(2) I striked monofur because FontBook report some oddities in this couple of fonts.

Andale Mono (659 glyphs)

AurulentSansMono-Regular (267 glyphs)

Chicago (433 glyphs)

Consolas (2731 glyphs)

Courier New (3151 glyphs)

Courier Std Medium (374 glyphs)

CPMono_v07 (361 glyphs)

DejaVu Sans Mono (3161 glyphs)

Droid Sans Mono (612 glyphs)

Free Monospaced (2576 glyphs)

Inconsolata (359 glyphs)

Inconsolata-dz (294 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono Light 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Latin Modern Mono Light Cond 10 Regular (740 glyphs)

Liberation Mono (663 glyphs)

Menlo Regular (3157 glyphs)

Monaco (1678 glyphs)

monofur (675 glyphs)

Monoxil (275 glyphs)

OCR A Std (270 glyphs)

Prestige Elite Std (374 glyphs)

TeX Gyre Cursor (1242 glyphs)

Tiger (1388 glyphs)

Tiger Expert (1172 glyphs)

Verily Serif Mono (244 glyphs)

I'm a bit puzzled by the problems reported upon monofur because it's available since year 2000 thru dafont.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 27 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

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Yvan, MS Sans Serif is installed by default with any Mac OS X released over the last years, and makes part of MS font set included in Mac OS X too. This MS set includes Arial, Tahoma, TNR, Verdana and some others I forgot.

I apologize but you are wrong.

May you tell me where ?

Apple deliver : Microsoft Sans Serif.ttf

which is not a monospaced font.

The list of fonts delivered by Lion is available at :

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5098?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

The fonts delivered with M…oSoft Office are :

Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold

Abadi MT Condensed Light

Andale Mono

Arial Black

Arial Bold Italic.ttf

Arial Bold.ttf

Arial Italic.ttf

Arial Narrow

Arial Rounded Bold

Arial.ttf

Baskerville Old Face

Batang.ttf

Bauhaus 93

Bell MT

Bernard MT Condensed

Book Antiqua

Bookman Old Style

Bookshelf Symbol 7.ttf

Braggadocio

Britannic Bold

Brush Script.ttf

Calibri Bold Italic.ttf

Calibri Bold.ttf

Calibri Italic.ttf

Calibri.ttf

Calisto MT

Cambria Bold Italic.ttf

Cambria Bold.ttf

Cambria Italic.ttf

Cambria Math.ttf

Cambria.ttf

Candara Bold Italic.ttf

Candara Bold.ttf

Candara Italic.ttf

Candara.ttf

Century Gothic

Century Schoolbook

Century

Colonna

Comic Sans MS

Consolas Bold Italic.ttf

Consolas Bold.ttf

Consolas Italic.ttf

Consolas.ttf

Constantia Bold Italic.ttf

Constantia Bold.ttf

Constantia Italic.ttf

Constantia.ttf

Cooper Black

Copperplate Gothic Bold

Copperplate Gothic Light

Corbel Bold Italic.ttf

Corbel Bold.ttf

Corbel Italic.ttf

Corbel.ttf

Curlz MT

Desdemona

Edwardian Script ITC

encodings.dir

Engravers MT

Eurostile

Footlight Light

Franklin Gothic Book Italic.ttf

Franklin Gothic Book.ttf

Franklin Gothic Medium Italic.ttf

Franklin Gothic Medium.ttf

Gabriola.ttf

Garamond

Georgia

Gill Sans MT Bold Italic.ttf

Gill Sans MT Bold.ttf

Gill Sans MT Italic.ttf

Gill Sans MT.ttf

Gill Sans Ultra Bold

Gloucester MT Extra Condensed

Goudy Old Style

Gulim.ttf

Haettenschweiler

Harrington

himalaya.ttf

Impact

Imprint MT Shadow

Kino

Lucida Blackletter

Lucida Bright

Lucida Calligraphy

Lucida Console.ttf

Lucida Fax

Lucida Handwriting

Lucida Sans Typewriter

Lucida Sans Unicode.ttf

Lucida Sans

Marlett.ttf

Matura Script Capitals

Meiryo Bold Italic.ttf

Meiryo Bold.ttf

Meiryo Italic.ttf

Meiryo.ttf

MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB.ttf

mingliu_hkscs.ttf

MingLiU-ExtB.ttf

MingLiU.ttf

Mistral

Modern No. 20

monbaiti.ttf

Monotype Corsiva

Monotype Sorts

MS Gothic.ttf

MS Mincho.ttf

MS PGothic.ttf

MS PMincho.ttf

MS Reference Sans Serif.ttf

MS Reference Specialty.ttf

msyi.ttf

MT Extra

News Gothic MT

Onyx

Palatino Linotype Bold Italic.ttf

Palatino Linotype Bold.ttf

Palatino Linotype Italic.ttf

Palatino Linotype.ttf

Perpetua Bold Italic.ttf

Perpetua Bold.ttf

Perpetua Italic.ttf

Perpetua Titling MT

Perpetua.ttf

Playbill

PMingLiU-ExtB.ttf

PMingLiU.ttf

Rockwell

Rockwell Extra Bold

SimHei.ttf

SimSun-ExtB.ttf

SimSun.ttf

Stencil

Tahoma

taile.ttf

TaiLeb.ttf

Times New Roman Bold Italic.ttf

Times New Roman Bold.ttf

Times New Roman Italic.ttf

Times New Roman.ttf

Trebuchet MS

Tw Cen MT Bold Italic.ttf

Tw Cen MT Bold.ttf

Tw Cen MT Italic.ttf

Tw Cen MT.ttf

Verdana Bold Italic.ttf

Verdana Bold.ttf

Verdana Italic.ttf

Verdana.ttf

Wide Latin

Wingdings 2.ttf

Wingdings 3.ttf

Wingdings.ttf

MS Reference Sans Serif is no more a monospaced font.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 27 février 2012

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What is MS REFERENCE Sans Serif? there is no Reference here, it is MS Sans Serif pure and simple.

As far as I remember MS Sans Serif has been a constant component of any Mac OS x installation over the last decades. I have always had it in the basic installation set.

PS. I have just had a look at my daughter’s new mini with Lion preinstalled, MS Sans Serif is of course there.

(1) I repeat, Lion install MicroSoft Sans Serif, not MS Sans Serif !

Is it so difficult to look at the list delivered by Apple ? (I gave its link).

(2) I wrote :

The fonts delivered with M…oSoft Office are :

Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold

…

MS PMincho.ttf

MS Reference Sans Serif.ttf

MS Reference Specialty.ttf

I assumed that it was clear. Isn’t it ?

(3) A quick search on the net would teach you that many users searching for MS Sans Serif.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 27 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

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Yvan, MS is short for Microsoft, so indeed the full name is Microsoft Sans Serif; and TNR is short for Times New Roman.

Issue closed.

It exists a font really named MS Sans Serif.

It's a monospaced one but Micosoft Sans Serif is not a monospaced font.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 27 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

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Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sans_Serif

Hello Fruhulda

I'm a bit puzzled. In the first messages the font was described as monospaced but it's described as proportional in the linked web page.

In an other page I saw that it was resembling to Tahoma which is proportional too.

So, at this time, there is only one thing which is sure :

MS Sans Serif is not the same font than Microsoft Sans Serif (Most of the time I don't write the name of this company but I made a typo in my late message so it's fair to write it correctly this time) 😉

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 27 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

You are right and you can read it on the wikipedia page.

• MS Sans Serif is not the same as Microsoft Sans Serif.
• MS Sans Serif is a bitmap font. Microsoft Sans Serif is based on MS Sans Serif but is a TrueType font.
• MS Reference Sans Serif is a different TrueType font.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sans_Serif