18/20. I got thrown off by the kerning in CVS/pharmacy. On Crate&Barrel, I was thrown off by the C. Why does it look different from all the other C's in the Helvetica versions of the logos?
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
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Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#32The 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
> Would be good if they didn't tell you the answer after each question...
Indeed, although TBH I only noticed at the second to last one!
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#3317/20. 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…
> digital The lowercase a is a dead giveaway.
And the "t".
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#3417/20. 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…
I know nothing about fonts. Got 18/20 just picking whichever felt older looking.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#35Arial: "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?
it shared many exact characteristics of helvetica. if it didn’t have any hairy arms, then it would be helvetica.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#36Got 3/20. I didn't know the characteristics of Arial or Helvetica beforehand. The results show that I can easily tell the two fonts apart, although I don't know which is which.
Pretty much the same as me, I just tried to be consistent without knowing what each font looks like.
It goes to show they are easy to tell apart.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#37Just to even out the comments of all these people bragging, I got 11/20, so no better than chance. :)
(EDIT: Okay, yes, technically 11/20 is slightly better than chance - but really, no.
Cumulative probability P(X >= x) = 0.41 )
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#3819/20, 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).
I scored the same, for the same reason. What I find interesting is that the Helvetica logos are a lot nicer in my opinion even though the difference is subtle. Having things parallel to the baseline improves the look dramatically over the angled bits in Arial.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#39> You answered 2 out of 20 questions correctly.
At least I'm consistent, but I guess I got them the other way around.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#40Just to even out the comments of all these people bragging, I got 11/20, so no better than chance. :) (EDIT: Okay, yes, technically 11/20 is slightly better than chance - but really, no. Cumulative probability P(X >= x) = 0.41 )
I did hopelessly, then I found out about the differences (which I did not even ever know or notice), I got 100% on a second try. Consider me enlightened about the differences now.