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.
Same, then I learned and retried and got 100%... Was eye-opening.
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
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Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#42Just 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 )
11/20 as well here
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#4319/20, 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).
1/20 I guess I was able to tell them apart too?
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#4419/20, 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).
Indeed:
A = Angled = Arial
H = Horizontal = Helvetica
Some of the capitals (C, S) have that, too.
Similarly, lowercase r ends vertically in Helvetica, slanted in Arial.
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#45Even 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?
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#4620/20. They're fairly easy to differentiate. The curved ends (finials) of e, c, C, r, S, s are generally horizontal in Helvetica and at an angle in Arial. The tail of the uppercase R and ascender of the lowercase t are the biggest giveaways. Funny how they are so similar, but Arial is pretty tacky in comparison...
The only ones where it was difficult to tell the difference were MATTEL and TOYOTA.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#4719/20, 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.
Same score. I also applied the same heuristic. I wonder what I should have looked for in the MATTEL one.
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#4817/20
Target
Toyota and National are hard ones (IMHO)
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#4917/20. 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.
I didn't go reading up on the specific differences between the fonts before taking the test. I did look at the 't', but I didn't remember which was which. I had been relying on the impression the two fonts made on my mind.
Re: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
#5019/20, 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.
MATTEL and TOYOTA are the most difficult ones IMO. I got Toyota right because the non-circular O's in the Arial variant just look wrong to me.