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Thank you, now you have ruined Arial for me. Before this test I considered the differences negligible, without really knowing what the differences are. Now I consider Helvetica much more elegant and incisive.
Thank you, now you have ruined Arial for me. Before this test I considered the differences negligible, without really knowing what the differences are. Now I consider Helvetica much more elegant and incisive.
Maybe it is more elegant, but if you don't want cross browser, cross platform rendering issues you'll stick with Arial.
Alternatively, @font-face is supported by just about everything at this point, opening up the opportunity to use much better fonts, like open sans
(also, helvetica is a print font. It doesn't work for body copy at the sizes commonly used for screen text.)
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Because it gives the text a different character on a macro level.
I believe that is what he's trying to say. You don't use Arial because it terminates at right angles, you use it because it feels different.
Thank you, now you have ruined Arial for me. Before this test I considered the differences negligible, without really knowing what the differences are. Now I consider Helvetica much more elegant and incisive.
Maybe it is more elegant, but if you don't want cross browser, cross platform rendering issues you'll stick with Arial.
I really don't consider myself a typography expert or designer, but I found that easy and got a perfect score. There are obvious tells in almost all of them -- mostly lowercase "s", "c", etc, in which Helvetica is has perfectly level edges and arial is angled. The only harder ones are some of the all caps examples like TOYOTA.
Agree that lower case is trivial due to the level terminal edges in Helvetica. For uppercase, the tip offs are the following: * The capital A in Helvetica is narrower (more isoceles and less equilateral) * The capital G has an extra hatch on the right side (looks like an arrow and not an L) * The capital R does not have a straight leg in Helvetica * Conversely, arial chooses a non-straight hatch mark for the Q wherea…
That said, I did get a degree in graphic design, so I may not be typical when it comes to this.
Here's something interesting to do with the same test. Instead of guessing which one you think is Helvetica, choose the one you like better. Then see if Helvetica shows up more times than Arial (or vice versa).