arial

After watching the Helvetica documentary, I decided to do some research online about this typeface that I almost never put to use, but that is so widely used. I was surprised to find that there is somewhat of a debate, more like a war, on the differences between the Helvetica and Arial typefaces, which are commonly thought of as identical.  read more »

So I have to admit, I haven’t watched the Helvetica documentary yet. I couldn’t make it to the viewings. I know what a bad student I am. However, after listening to the classes comments today and actually paying a little attention to the world around me, I picked up a couple things about Helvetica. So I’m going to use this blog entry to hypothesize what the documentary is going to say. Go out on a limb a bit. Then I’ll watch the video and try to learn something, an probably see how wrong many of my conclusions are…  read more »