Ascender Corporation, a provider of advanced font products for hardware and software developers, announced that the Microsoft fonts which Microsoft has recently announced as being licensed to Apple are available from Ascender for licensing to other software and hardware companies, and also directly to end users.

Microsoft and Ascender have an agreement which enables Ascender to offer Microsoft’s extensive font library, which includes multilingual fonts and fonts tuned for on-screen display and high resolution printing. These fonts include Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet and Verdana–fonts which can be found in the Apple iPhone and other Apple products. The Microsoft fonts can be integrated into a Web browser on any device or operating system to offer the best user experience.