Tahoma is a narrow, sans serif typeface based on its wider cousin Verdana. Like Verdana, it is especially easy to read onscreen, although it also works well in print. Tahoma is useful for situations where you need to fit a lot of words into a small space: a newsletter in narrow columns, for example, or headlines or subheads on a phone screen. Tahoma could be the headline typeface for a report or a presentation that uses Verdana for the body copy. Tahoma is also useful for labels, captions, and signs. It has a clear, open feel, and among other features it makes it easy to distinguish a capital ‘I’ (eye) from a lowercase ‘l’ (ell).
Tahoma was designed for Microsoft by type designer Matthew Carter, with technical tweaking by font-hinting expert Tom Rickner to make it legible at small sizes onscreen in dialog boxes and menus. It was published in 1995 as a system font in Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system.
Tahoma has two clearly distinguished weights, Regular and Bold, but no italic styles.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.