Tahoma™ is one of Microsoft's most popular sans serif typeface families. It was created to address the challenges of on-screen display, particularly at small sizes in dialog boxes and menus. Tahoma has a sturdy, assertive personality with a variety of uses. Type Designer - Matthew Carter & Thomas Rickner. Character Set - Latin-1, WGL Pan-European. Font Format - TrueType. This font includes an expanded character set that supports English, Western and Central European languages, including Baltic, Turkish, Greek and Cyrillic.