Inspired by my last post, I took this test, How to Spot Arial.
I started Microsoft Word, I typed in the word “Rates”, and I changed the settings from Arial to Helvetica. Guess what? No change occurred. All the telltale signs of Arial are still there.
Perhaps it’s just my version of Word (2002), but it looks like it provides Helvetica in name only.
Categories: new!
(Photo of me in the Indigo bookstore, Yonge and Eglinton. Taken by my 7 year old son, who is a natural photographer. He waited until I looked away to take the photo. Afterwards he said: people look better when they look away from the camera.)
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2 responses so far ↓
Me Too! // November 18, 2008 at 6:06 am |
Yeah this is the same in word 2007. This must be illegal. If I am a soda vendor, I can’t just buy coke bottles and fill them with pepsi and tell everyone its coke.
GH // January 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm |
I just watched the documentary “Helvetica,” which praises this font as the gold standard. The movie makes a huge deal about the horizontal terminus of the tail in the letter ‘e.’ This is noticeably angled in Arial font. Very disappointing to see Microsoft make such a bold and sweeping decision.