Look at the angles of the strokes and the slight variations in weights. See the diagram with the alphabets in both typefaces faces, the black outline is helvetica so you can see how each letter compares with it respective one. So do you prefer Arial to Helvetica? Do you know the difference? It has been a core font in all Windows operating systems until replaced with Calibri in Vista. It was first supplied with Windows 3.1 in 1992. A very young face in the type world! It is classified as Neo Grotesque and was originally called Sonoran San Serif and was specifically designed for IBM’s bitmapped font laser printers. Helvetica is classified as a Grotesque or transitional san serif.Īrial was the creation of Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders in 1982 for Monotype. It was originally called Neue Haas Grotesque but in 1960 became Helvetica or “Swiss”, Helvetica being the Latin word for Switzerland. Helvetica was designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, based on Akzidenz Grotesk (1896). What did Helvetica say to Arial? You’re such a copy cat!
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