On 13-Apr-00 23:51:42, Don Cox wrote in Voyager:
>Arial is an exact copy of Helvetica. I just checked them again in a
>printed catalogue from Font Shop. They are identical.

I know how they look, and if they really were similar I wouldn't have asked.

Ok, if you still can't spot the difference, compare e.g. the "a" from both
fonts.

>So is Triumvirate.
>The point is that you can copy the shapes of the letters, which are not
>protectable by copyright, but not the name or the computer code.

Well, I have yet to see an exact copy of the Helvetica font.



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