The comment that Arial is "a not-very-faithful imitation of a typeface that is no longer fashionable" struck me as odd too. "No longer fashionable"? Well, that

The comment that Arial is "a not-very-faithful imitation of a typeface that is no longer fashionable" struck me as odd too. "No longer fashionable"? Well, that may have been the case in 2001. I suppose 2001 really must have been a long time ago! All the designers I've known who've had any interest in type love Helvetica. One even had a sample of it tattooed on their arm. I thought this a touch extreme, but Google image search says it is quite common. (For my part, I always preferred Arial at lower point sizes. At 10pt, it's so attractive - not a pixel out of place! Its own Arial is Arial Unicode, a misshapen imitation that just doesn't sit right. I wonder what Arial Unicode's Arial is. Comic Sans, I suppose.)