![]() On February 20, 2008, 11:06 CET, danielsherson said: ![]() If you have questions or suggestions about what I write, please leave a comment (if available) or a message. Here on I share some of my views and experiences. Other than that, I love trying things, sometimes including philosophy, art, and adventure. I’ve worked as a technical lead for Google, I’m close to the W3C and the WHATWG, and I write and review books for O’Reilly. I’m Jens Oliver Meiert, and I’m an engineering manager and author. Tweet this? (If it changed your life, you delight me with a coffee.) About Me Helvetica never gets applied when named after Arial. arial, sans-serif, that is, without any reference to Helvetica. However, when you’re in doubt about Helvetica’s abilities, and when you then consider that Arial is pretty much available on every system (according to neat font stats), just refer to arial. #Is helvetica now arial mac os#My own tests on both Mac OS and Windows XP didn’t reveal any problems (font file on Windows, for what it’s worth: “Helvetic.TTF”) except that with larger font sizes, there “sometimes” is a little problem with glyph presentation even with ClearType activated. Your feedback suggested me to set up another test page. This even works when your favorite font is yet another one, as in 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, arial, sans-serif. On systems with Helvetica installed you’ll get the famous Swiss Grotesque type, and otherwise have a reliable fallback. Since there is and never was, thanks to CSS’s font handling, a need to favor Arial, it’s time to fix an almost historical mistake: Switch to helvetica, arial. Skipping the history of Arial- Wikipedia explains and Mark Simonson colors it-I just like to conclude a brief analysis of a few decorator, designer, and typographer websites: When naming Arial within CSS font preferences first, almost everyone gives it precedence over the equally often listed Helvetica, even though that cannot be desired (and is pointless, because Arial would always be pulled instead). ![]()
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