Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to create a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. It was terminated in 2002. It included the proprietary fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows and in BinHexed Stuff-It archives (".sit.hqx") for Macintosh. These packages were published as freeware under a proprietary license imposing some restrictions on usage and distribution. They are still available from some third-party websites. The project included some of the latest TrueType versions of the fonts available in 2002. Updated versions of the fonts released in following years were not published as freeware and are usually available only after purchasing a license or as a part of some commercial products.
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