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When I saw the Bing search results, and saw how much of a knockoff it was of Google's design, all I could think about was Arial being a poor knockoff of Helveti
by lsb 17y ago
When I saw the Bing search results, and saw how much of a knockoff it was of Google's design, all I could think about was Arial being a poor knockoff of Helvetica, but at exactly the same widths, because Microsoft didn't want to pay licensing fees to Adobe.
Apple, back in the day, chose Helvetica.
- ugh 17y agoNah, not even so evil. Plain old ignorance is enough. Microsoft just didn’t care a bit about typography. They were very much content with a knock off because they didn’t know any better. (Today Microsoft cares quite a bit more about typography so everything’s not the same. They still use the wrong – straight – quotation marks, though. Annoys me without end.)
- KC8ZKF 17y agoThey (Microsoft) didn't want to pay licensing fees to Linotype.