Andalé Sans (usually appearing as Andale Sans) is a proportional sans-serif

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Steve Matteson Steven R. Matteson (born 1965, Chicago, Illinois) is an American typeface designer whose work is included in several computer operating systems and embedded in game consoles, cell phones and other electronic devices. He is the designer of the Micr ...

to complement its monospaced counterpart,

Andalé Mono Andalé Mono (for technical reasons also Andale Mono) is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the Taligent project by Apple Inc. and IBM. Andalé ...

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Andalé Sans was used in the high-end

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produced by Sony Ericsson (usually under the

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name "Sans-Serif Europe" or "Universal"). A variant of this typeface, Andalé Sans UI, was used in the

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of older versions of the StarOffice and OpenOffice.org (until version 2.0) suites. A

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version, Ascender Uni, comprising more than 50,000 glyphs is also available from Ascender Corporation. Andalé Sans and Andalé Sans UI were bundled with StarOffice 7, which can be still obtained on mirror sites.

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Humanist sans-serif typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1995 Typefaces designed by Steve Matteson {{typography-stub

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