The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters were designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by leading hinting expert, Monotype's Tom Rickner. These features give the fonts significant advantages over bitmap system fonts such as MS Sans Serif.
Since the Tahomas are TrueType fonts, they can be rotated and scaled to any size, and anti-aliased by the rasterizer built into Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. It consists of two Windows TrueType fonts (regular and bold), and was created to address the challenges of on-screen display, particularly at small sizes in dialog boxes and menus. Tahoma is one of Microsoft's new sans serif typeface families. It contains glyphs for English and other characters, which are from temporarily from Tahoma. The font is produced and published by and Alpha Mandalay. Zawgyi-One's Myanmar glyphs are designed by Zaw Win Myat of Art House.
