Ascender Sans was designed by Steve Matteson as an inventive, exhilarating sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Arial. Ascender Sans offers enhanced on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across different platforms. The Ascender Sans Narrow offers enriched on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and resolve the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms. Ascender Sans Narrow contains regular, italic, bold and bold italic fonts.