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Got 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.
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Same score. I also applied the same heuristic. I wonder what I should have looked for in the MATTEL one.
It's very subtle and more pronounced in the other logos shown, but the horizontal line in the "A" is closer to the baseline in Helvetica than in Arial.
I got one wrong—Mattel—but, frustratingly, even after being told this, I still can't really confidently tell the difference with that one... I guess 5 capital letters wouldn't've been enough for the owners of Helvetica to have made a case
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).
18/20, they're fairly easy to tell apart, except for MATTEL and TOYOTA which are quite subtle (and I got wrong precisely because I couldn't remember which is which). Both the capital and lowercase R are a dead giveaway.
> the stupid slanted end bits on letters like c s and r are also really crap.
> Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born.
> What the hell were they smoking when they made the t and G?
Like, I wish Hitler had never been born. Arial can stick around, haha.
Got 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.
Did you not at least look at what you got right or wrong for the answer before to improve? Getting 3/20 seems a bit too low.
It's bananas to me how similar these fonts are, and how passionately people feel about them: > the stupid slanted end bits on letters like c s and r are also really crap. > Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born. > What the hell were they smoking when they made the t and G? Like, I wish Hitler had never been born. Arial can stick around, haha.
It's bananas to me how similar these fonts are, and how passionately people feel about them: > the stupid slanted end bits on letters like c s and r are also really crap. > Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born. > What the hell were they smoking when they made the t and G? Like, I wish Hitler had never been born. Arial can stick around, haha.
People are obviously exaggerating. I don’t care much about fonts. But I still wrote to a friend that Arial is ugly and sucks when linking to this. That doesn’t mean I really care all that much. Just a feeling in the moment.
Even HN falls to it's knees in the presence of an internet quiz and the opportunity to show off a score. Unrelated, you used to see ridiculous amounts of quiz's being shared on Facebook only a few years ago and they seem to have all but disappeared. They where obviously shady in some aspect (maybe some kind of data collection), did something actually happen to them or did people just get bored?