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Lists and Diagrams: If your response is "Bah, they look the same!", then read this article, which demonstrates the differences between the two, and then this article, which charts the history of the two fonts, and explains how the differences matter. (via Cosmos)

  Skookum Talk: Whoa, dude, a typeface is harshing his mellow totally. The Scourge of Arial (via Cosmos)

  The J-Walk Blog: Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world. (via Cosmos)

  yjblog.stupidchicken.com: The Scourge of Arial (via Cosmos)

[dsng.net - the daryl sng blog] Arial v. Helvetica: On my Lotus Notes, my "Default Sans Serif" is Helvetica, and when I copy text from Word it sometimes pastes in as Arial, and the differences, while not immediately apparent, are immediately palpable: a slight smooshing of the letters, and odd little inconsistent curlicues. I always felt Arial looked slightly "off", but it's nice to have some typographic reason why.

[nimbupani | home] Typogaffes: For example, I end up having the mindset that people who use courier are old - fashioned, times new roman as harsh or sharp , verdana / arial / trebuchet as soft, Comic Sans as, well, clownish etc.

 [SuicideGirls > News > All] CULTURE: "I Have Met Arial, and You, Helvetica, Are No Arial" *: Arial, he explains, is a bad imitation of Helvetica. "At a glance, it looks like Helvetica, but up close it's different in dozens of seemingly arbitrary ways." What's odd, he writes, is that an exact copy of that typeface could have been made with no legal consequences because only the names of fonts are really protected.

[Marksimonson.com] Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: but note that the font used for the word ARIAL is in fact Helvetica. Oops. And it was such a clever idea to set the clues in the named fonts. Permanent Link ...

[Courtingdestiny.com] Courting Destiny » Font Games: Arial, he explains, is a bad imitation of Helvetica: “At a glance, it looks like Helvetica, but up close it’s different in dozens of seemingly arbitrary ways.” What’s odd, he writes, is that an exact copy of that typeface could have been made with no legal consequences because only the names of fonts are really protected.

 [Holovaty.com] June 30, 2002, blog entries | Holovaty.com: It turns out Arial was developed as a "look-alike" font based on Helvetica, one of the more popular/trendy fonts of the mid to late 20th Century. Font vendors created Arial to compete with Adobe, which licensed Helvetica in the early '80s.

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