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That is almost the exact experience I had. I got 17/20 and the ones I screwed up all had capital letters. I couldn't see any difference between Mattel and Toyo
by reidmain 14y ago
That is almost the exact experience I had. I got 17/20 and the ones I screwed up all had capital letters.
I couldn't see any difference between Mattel and Toyota.
- Alexx 14y agoMattel is the genuinely incredibly close, the 'Y' in Toyota is the obvious tell if you've spent a while looking at Helvetica though.
- breakall 14y agoFun test! Mattel was also the one that tripped me up. As the GP said, the caps on the S, C, T, etc were usually the giveaways. The flourish at the bottom right (not sure the correct term) of the R in TARGET gave me at moment's pause. But each of the logos was customized to an extent.
- etfb 14y agoI realised it must be Helvetica because of the "R". I reasoned thus: I am more familiar with Arial than Helvetica, and I'm sure I would have seen that "R" before if I were spending a lot of time with it because it's just so ugly, so since I didn't recognise it, it must be Helvetica. And I was right. It's funny, because I universally prefer Helvetica over Arial otherwise.
- etfb 14y agoThe perfectly round "O" was the giveaway for me. Helvetica just feels more "literal" to me, if that makes any sense, with its perfectly horizontal endings on "C" and "S" and "t", so the round "O" seemed more likely. Mattel nearly tripped me up too, but I noticed that Helvetica was bolder throughout than the Arial equivalent, so it wasn't hard.
- callum85 14y agoO isn't perfectly round in Helvetica. The Toyota logo is modified to use perfect circles for the Os. The real O is a bit rounder than in Arial maybe, but still not a circle. Futura is the one with the perfect circles (for both O and o).
- threedaymonk 14y agoToyota was the only one I got wrong: it was the round Os that threw me off. I thought Helvetica didn't look like that, and, well, it doesn't.
- jneal 14y agoI used the same rational. Whichever font looked bolder, I choose and got it correct. Also, the Staples Arial version didn't have the "registered" mark so I got that one easily.
- js2 14y agoBut in the Mattel example, Helvetica is the thinner font. Instead notice the varying letter width, the M being wider than the A with Helvetica in the Mattel example.
- platz 14y agoI think your description of "literalness" relates well to "geometric" typefaces (typefaces constructed on simple geometric shapes).
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- 3825 14y agoI answered 18 out of 20 questions correctly. American Apparel and Toyota tripped me.
- reidmain 14y agoThe first difference I picked up on was lowercase r's. Lowercase Helvetica characters never end on an angle. They are always flat and either parallel on the bottom or the edge of the screen. Toyota was a pure guess for me.