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Erm, sorry, I just meant DejaVu Sans. But I do appreciate that its metrics are still different from Arial. Is that important in every application? Maybe.
by decklin 17y ago
Erm, sorry, I just meant DejaVu Sans. But I do appreciate that its metrics are still different from Arial. Is that important in every application? Maybe.
- jacobolus 17y agoWell, I think a lot of times you’re right, the “Arial” at the end is just cargo-cultism, and should be scrapped; blame copy-pasta. But yes, I think it’s completely reasonable to have a design request Helvetica but fall back on Arial: to the regular reader the two look pretty much the same, which means that the design will stay working, both in layout and style, as the designer intended.