So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?

Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? by onion2k on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:13AM (#17884317)

I scored the same, for the same reason. What I find interesting is that the Helvetica logos are a lot nicer in my opinion even though the difference is subtle. Having things parallel to the baseline improves the look dramatically over the angled bits in Arial.

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Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? by alexvoda on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:21AM (#17884356)

Same score. I also applied the same heuristic. I wonder what I should have looked for in the MATTEL one.

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Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? by simongr3dal on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:51AM (#17884461)

It's very subtle and more pronounced in the other logos shown, but the horizontal line in the "A" is closer to the baseline in Helvetica than in Arial.

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Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? by chrisWhite on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:33PM (#17887394)

This probably is more to do with recreating the logo imperfectly than the font itself but the kernning was way off on the Arial version.

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Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? by jsjohnst on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:52PM (#17887045)

Exactly what I used for reference to decide as well (got 20/20).

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