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Arial and Helvetica

1st July 2002

The Scourge of Arial (via Zeldman). An interesting short history of modern typefaces and how Arial become widespread despite being merely a poor imitation of Helvetica.

Posted 1st July 2002 at 11:56 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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