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Arial isn't a copy of Helvetica. It more closely resembles the predecessor to Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk.
by cemregr 17y ago
Arial isn't a copy of Helvetica. It more closely resembles the predecessor to Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk.
- handelaar 17y agoIn this version of events, is the fact that Arial's kerning tables match Helvetica's exactly just an incredible coincidence?
- george_morgan 17y agoArial seems to have been designed as a regressive version of Helvetica, it’s like an interim step between Akzidenz and Helvetica. Non-parallel terminals being the most distinctive, also the influence of the Akzidenz cap R can be seen. In this respect, it’s like an early design which would have been discarded in the development of Helvetica. Conceptually, designing something in such a regressive manner seems to go against the spirit of progression the modernist design of Helvetica implies.