Arial and Helvetica
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- kingcatcole
So, first off let me say Hi.
I'm a long time lurker and first time poster.Now my question:
Is there a differance between ariel and helvetica? I've been told no.
Thanks.
- jevad0
Arial is microsofts helvetica
ya dig?
- ********0
hit the sack jevad
- airey0
there's a few little differences in the quality of the letterforms that a few people could write an essay on but i don't think you'd be interested.
- forcetwelve0
difference is - don't use arial. ever.
- clerk0
Arial is microsofts helvetica
ya dig?
jevad
(Jun 21 05, 23:57)hi!
- jevad0
what - not even for html? Why?
- Typographica0
An essay has been written.
- forcetwelve0
oh yeah— ok, html is a different story i guess. 11pt looks ok. in print to me it looks shady...
- clerk0
nice article Typografica, thanks!
- jevad0
word
I wuld never use arial in print
ever
no really
well...I almost did once
by mistake
I thought it was helvetica
- forcetwelve0
nah jevad -
// you'd use brush script before anything!
- jevad0
or comic sans
bitch
- forcetwelve0
curlz™
haha
- Typographica0
Once you read Simonson's piece, you'll probably do well on the quiz...
- jevad0
8/10
- clerk0
8/10 those caps are tough!
- Typographica0
Now who's this jerkface pushing my PBS post down?
- clerk0
say hello to our new spammer:
- Typographica0
Design Taxi. Used to get poopy email from them all the time before spam blocking. Lame.
- forcetwelve0
7/10!
the lower case 't' is different.