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The Icon Bar: The Playpen: Arial or Helvetica?
 
  Arial or Helvetica?
  monkeyson2 (08:58 20/8/2003)
  Loris (12:50 20/8/2003)
    moss (16:21 20/8/2003)
      monkeyson2 (20:14 29/9/2009)
      Mark76 (06:48 30/9/2009)
 
Phil Mellor Message #45747, posted by monkeyson2 at 08:58, 20/8/2003
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380 		http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/
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Tony Haines Message #45754, posted by Loris at 12:50, 20/8/2003, in reply to message #45747
madbanHa ha, me mine, mwahahahaha
Posts: 1025 		No mention of Homerton, though.
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John Hoare Message #45759, posted by moss at 16:21, 20/8/2003, in reply to message #45754

Posts: 9348 		Actually, I didn't know Arial *was* based on Helvetica (unlike Homerton, which *is* an exact copy) - I thought it was just a generic, rather poor (I've always hated the look of it) sans serif font. Hmmmm.
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Phil Mellor Message #111529, posted by monkeyson2 at 20:14, 29/9/2009, in reply to message #45759
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380 		And another: http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/index.php

Via Daring Fireball - I got 20/20 which makes me +1 better than Gruber. grin
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Mark Message #111530, posted by Mark76 at 06:48, 30/9/2009, in reply to message #45759
Mark76

Posts: 122
Actually, I didn't know Arial *was* based on Helvetica (unlike Homerton, which *is* an exact copy) - I thought it was just a generic, rather poor (I've always hated the look of it) sans serif font. Hmmmm.
Free Sans, on the other hand, is almost sueably identical.
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The Icon Bar: The Playpen: Arial or Helvetica?