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In digital typography, the TrueType font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much more storage space (22 megabytes). It also adds Ideographic layout tables, but unlike Arial, it mandates no smoothing in the 14–18 point range, and contains Roman (upright) glyphs only; there is no oblique (italic) version. Arial Unicode MS is normally distributed with Microsoft Office, but it may also be purchased separately (as Arial Unicode) from Ascender Corporation, the only company Microsoft allows to license the font.