A r i a l
“Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. 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.”
And so say all of us. Arial is ubiquitous – like barcodes – so we don’t ask where it came from. But someone drew the font.
* “Mark Simonson: The Scourge of Arial”:http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
* “Differences between Arial and Helvetica”:http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
* “Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts for the Web”:http://www.zeuscat.com/andrew/software/corefonts/
* “Using the MS Web core fonts, licencing issues”:http://typographi.com/000994.php