It included the proprietary fonts Andalé 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.

[1] Microsoft terminated the project in 2002,[2][3] but because of the license terms, the distributed files are still legally available from some third-party websites.

Updated versions of the fonts produced since 2002 have not been published as freeware and are usually available only after purchasing a license or as a part of some commercial products.

[4][22][23] Some of these fonts are also not installed by default in iOS (i.e. Andalé Mono, Comic Sans MS, Arial Black, Webdings).

[1][28] As a result, these packages are still available for download on third-party websites under the terms of the original web fonts end user license agreement.

The latest font-versions that were available from Microsoft's Core fonts for the Web project were 2.x (e.g. 2.82 for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for MS Windows[31]), published in 2000.

[4][5][6][35][36][excessive citations] The TrueType core fonts for the Web project included the following files under a proprietary license:[31][37]