Hello Trond
On 14-Apr-00, Trond K. Tveit wrote:
> 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.
OK, the serif is slightly larger in Helvetica. Will that show on
screen?
>> 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.
They are intended to be exact copies. You will probably find that the
computer versions of Helvetica itself are not exactly like the
designer's original drawings, either.
I do think that for 99.9% of Amiga users looking at a web page, they can
be treated as identical. (If there are 1000 Amiga users.)
Regards
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Don Cox
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