It’s no secret that Helvetica is considered the darling of typography, admired by designers the world over. Arial on the other hand is frequently looked at as Helvetica’s distant ugly sister, but in ...

Since emerging in 1982, Monotype Imaging‘s Arial has received its fair share of criticism, having long been regarded as a significantly uglier stand-in for Helvetica. That Microsoft endorsed Arial as ...

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The Internet is, from its very core to its most distant peripheries, a vast universe of text. I was reminded of this fact just this morning as I read the transcript of a conversation between my editor ...