You learn something new everyday. Today that something new as that Arial is a knock off of the classic Helvetica. Apparently the story goes that Microsoft was too cheap to pay to use Helvetica, so they hired a design firm to design a font that had the same size specifications of Helvetica so that they could be interchangeable, but this way they wouldn't have to pay rights.
Interesting.
1 comment:
you have probably seen it but the documentary film Helvetica is really interesting and entertaining.
http://www.helveticafilm.com/
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