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 font stats), just refer to arial. My own tests on both Mac OS and Windows XP didn’t show any problems (font file on Windows, for what it’s worth: “Helvetic.TTF”) except that with larger font sizes, occasionally, there’s a glitch 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 share 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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