Link: swiss-miss.com
Culture Buzz This is probably old hat for type nerds, but this chart clearly lays out some of the crucial distinctions between Arial and Helvetica. The Q distinctions are especially critical!
Link: swiss-miss.com
Old hat for the type nerds who can spell.
God, I remember having do do a chart like this for a typography class… If you don't get it, though: Microsoft didn't want to pay the creators of Helvetica for the font. Making a serious new font is an pain in the ass, with months of fiddling to find out ways so that no possible letter combination looks odd or easy to confuse at fast reading. So M$ commissioned a cheap-ass copy of Helvetica that changes about as little as possible without getting sued. The result? Arial, the slightly uglier font that you see everywhere everytime and cannot escape. Comic Sans? Some programmer did it in an afternoon by quickly tracing some old comic book fonts. And that's why it is the most evil font next to Neuropol.
Team Helvetica!
God, Helvetica is so much prettier.
Oh Helvetica capital R, I think I love you. And your perfectly round percentage mark circles make me swoon. Beat it Arial, you tramp.
helvetica rulez
Joe: That's probably not true
Helvetica started the Vietnam war.
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