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Arial: "It was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface Helvetica, with all character widths identical, so that a document designed in Helvetica could be displayed and printed correctly without having to pay for a Helvetica license." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
The bolder one is Helvetica. Got 15/20 after figuring this out from the first question.
Would be good if they didn't tell you the answer after each question... ['t', 'R', 'a', 's', 'S', 'c', 'C', 'g', 'G'] are the easiest to spot IMHO. You can get most of these with the lowercase c alone
Helvetica just looks more 'solid' sitting there on the page. Not only is the font a bit heavier, but the kerning is also tighter. Arial's curves and lines look like a 15 year old who thinks anime art is cool drew them.
Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born.
To the quiz creator: There's an (R) trademark missing in the imitation "Staples" logo which is a giveaway.
19/20, fooled by Mattel (and guessed lucky on the other all caps texts). My heuristic was to look at the a, c, e, g, and s, if present in lowercase: are the ends of those characters horizontal (Helvetica) or at an angle (Arial).
19/20, fooled by Mattel (and guessed lucky on the other all caps texts). My heuristic was to look at the a, c, e, g, and s, if present in lowercase: are the ends of those characters horizontal (Helvetica) or at an angle (Arial).
Arial: "It was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface Helvetica, with all character widths identical, so that a document designed in Helvetica could be displayed and printed correctly without having to pay for a Helvetica license." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
I wonder why they had to make it gratuitously different on top of it. What the hell were they smoking when they made the t and G?
c's and t's are a giveaway, Mattel and Toyota logo are easy to tell if you pay attention to the font weight.
Bravo to the author, the logos were recreated faithfully
17/20. I've spent some time studying the differences and could just rocket through them without bothering to even look at the 'c's and 't's. The one that gave me the most pause was digital, and that was one of the ones I got wrong. When you separate the letters, Helvetica loses a lot. The other two I got wrong were also done without letter-by-letter examination. Helvetica just looks more 'solid' sitting there on the…
The lowercase a is a dead giveaway.