helvetica vs. arial

long as it's not Copperplate

EWW YUCK BANKER FONT SICKO YUCK ewww

boldfaced Cheltanham

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

thanks for sorting that out, deej

http://www.onefloorup.com/2008/10/helvetica-monopoly.html

sizzle!

eww that's somehow disgusting

i like it but i'd prefer white on black

agreed 100%

I mis-read the thread title as "helvetica vs anal"

I read this as "helvetica vs anal".

Anal > Helvetica > Arial fwiw.

― edwardo, Thursday, 10 January 2008 14:31 (9 months ago)

Y'all be needin new glasses.

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway?pff=2

i rented "helvetica" last night but it wouldn't play :((((

You have to install the font first.

Arial had its place before ClearType, because it really does look ok even when pixellated a bit, and Helvetica looks like doo-doo without good sub-pixel rendering. Whether MS used it for that reason or to avoid paying royalties is a matter of debate I suppose, but I wouldn't called Arial a cheap rip-off of Helvetica. Every typeface (I can think of) is based on another, and there's a strong case for Arial being purpose-built and well-thought-out. And let's face it, Microsoft's foundry is good at what they do. Not all their creations hit my sweet spot -- I could really do without Trebuchet MS, for instance -- but some of the new Vista fonts are excellent. Corbel, Segoe, Calibri... gotta give props where they're due.

In other words, don't hate.

Helvetica vs. Anal.

both way overrated

What font makes the word "Arial" look most like the word "Anal"? Poll?

Any font that has no i and n and r swapped.

http://www.100besteschriften.de/

I do not read German so well.

But I do love Frutiger. I just zipped and sent my collection of it to my girlfriend yesterday, because she was in a font mood.

Watched the docu-film Helvetica last night, really enjoyed it. It's going to drive me mad, though, looking for fonts everywhere.

a quiz!

http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/index.php

THE FUCK KINDA QUSTINO IS THIS

― sleep, Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:48 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

19 of 20. I missed "Mattel". I don't feel too ashamed.

capital A's and lowercase t's are easy to distinguish

i still prefer the arial G

http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/target-arial.gif

HERETIC(A)!

berthold's Akzidenz-Grotesk a.k.a. "Standard" is my fave:

http://www.opps.cn/word/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/akzidenzgrotesk.gif

you can still see it on a few old signs in the NYC subway system

capital A's and lowercase t's are easy to distinguish

How are capital A's easy to distinguish?

http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/mattel-arial.gif
http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/mattel-helvetica.gif

i only missed one on that quiz by the way - toyota - but i'll admit that mattel was a toss-up as well

if there's a lowercase t or s it's easy

19/20 i find s and lowercase e the easiest to distinguish

c as well. arial has the ends all chopped off at jaunty angles.

14/20 - not so great.

(I think I'm starting to prefer Arial argh! I like the jaunty angles)

strangely i like the jaunty angles in akzidenz-grotesk but loathe them in arial.. no idea why

there's just something so pleasingly balanced about akzidenz-grotesk, yet also something ever so slightly handmade about it

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvetica-killer

watched helvetica last night

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/thumbsdown.jpg

wish i could have voted comic sans in this poll

yeah even for a movie about fonts helvetica was pretty fuckin boring

basically it was like "we interviewed some graphic designers about helvetica" "then we connected the scenes with shots of helvetica in use around a city" "fin"

would have been really fascinating with like a 30 minute run time

when I was in hs I was taking a class at the local city college and while in the library I remember hearing one guy tell another guy that a good way to make your essays hit the page req while staying in 12 pt font was to switch to arial. for some reason that is basically the only thing I think about when I think about arial.

I don't really get font snobbism

Wow that "death to Helvetica" guy is a moron. Akzidenz isn't modernist because it was created in 1899? Uh...

o-O at that Gill Sans background - I had no idea!

the extras on the helvetica dvd (same designers talking but not about a font) are more interesting than the movie

liked the movie. not so much as a study of the font, but as an examination of the ideas and personalities of a bunch of designers.

arial fibbing

treeship's post prompted me to change my stylesheet to swisshelvetica and now I feel like I'm losing my mind

just did the same. the text now has helvetica's protestant solidity but the color scheme reminds me of velvet couches from the 70s filled with bedbugs.

one way i used to waste time was changing the fonts on my blog over and over. i think i settled on this one called arimo which was the closest i could get to classic helvetty.

Gill Sans 'cause I like my typefaces designed by incestuous zoophiliac sexual abusers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#Controversies)

― ledge,Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:19 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

holy shit. my masters capstone included a blog component and that one was in gill sans. do you think that's why i didn't score the A+?

sadly, yes

i wish i hadn’t just now experimented with changing stylesheets. how do i make it revert to normal ?

I went crying back to the arms of new.css

okay i just logged out and cleared my browser history, that seems to have worked.

rob that was wise

one way i used to waste time was changing the fonts on my blog over and over. i think i settled on this one called arimo which was the closest i could get to classic helvetty.

― treeship., Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:04 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

update: the headings are still arimo on my blog, but i went with PT Sans for the body. this was a font developed by the russian government that for some reason is a default option on wordpress.

voted anal

https://steidl.de//assets/images/-UTQ3ZSOYIinwfk9oDTU4fTpe2tJU718M1iIdmN3SzQfWuCm9jqmw9jI0o7aEKUE+QqjgKA==/9783958295025_1.jpg.png

The idea that unkerned Arial has come within 1000 km of a Steidl book cover is causing me distress.

This book is not yet published; one can only hope they'll fix it up before it goes to press.

<<<shudder>>>