[lug] libreoffice fonts: Helvetica

[Bear Giles]

Saying Helvetica looks a lot like Arial will get you punched in the nose by
a lot of font designers and graphic artists. Arial is a mess. It's the
_Twilight Saga_ of the design world.

Sometimes there's no substitute for Helvetica though - it's used in a lot
of logos.

Helvetica definitely isn't a free font. X Windows licensed it (but it's
only bitmapped) and Apple licensed it but Microsoft cheaped out and hired
someone to produce Arial. We've been stuck with it ever since.

(Why is Arial so bad? It's based on a much broader font that was compressed
horizontally.  You don't see the problems that causes on a relatively
low-resolution screen or printer but it causes a lot of headaches when you
scale it up.)

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:09 AM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I've been looking around as to where to find fonts which do not seem to
>> be available
>> anymore, but which are (and have been) free for a long time...especially
>> Helvetica
>> (historically, this was the free equivalent answer to MSs Arial).
>>
>
> *I can almost hear young designers now saying, “Helvetica? That’s that
> font that looks kinda like Arial, right?” *<http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html>
>
> :-)
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