Hi @efrageek! Happy to answer your question: Arial was created in 1982 as an alternative for the already famous Helvetica, bascially to offer a good readable font for low resolution screens. Personally I don't like Arial, its a cheap copy.
I'm so glad to see that a professional designer agrees with this! I absolutely detest Arial but it is used everywhere at my current workplace: forms, letterhead, excel, our in-company email, etc. I asked about switching out the Arial with Georgia instead and my colleagues--who don't seem to notice the nails on chalkboard evilness of Arial--couldn't understand why this was even an issue. Several days later, all of the in-house documents were re-designed and new fonts used: Palatino for our letterhead and Verdana for our email and excel. Strange how that happened.
Hi @efrageek! Happy to answer your question: Arial was created in 1982 as an alternative for the already famous Helvetica, bascially to offer a good readable font for low resolution screens. Personally I don't like Arial, its a cheap copy.
I'm so glad to see that a professional designer agrees with this! I absolutely detest Arial but it is used everywhere at my current workplace: forms, letterhead, excel, our in-company email, etc. I asked about switching out the Arial with Georgia instead and my colleagues--who don't seem to notice the nails on chalkboard evilness of Arial--couldn't understand why this was even an issue. Several days later, all of the in-house documents were re-designed and new fonts used: Palatino for our letterhead and Verdana for our email and excel. Strange how that happened.
Hi @florentina! Thank you. Nice to see you got rid off Arial :) Without the bad ones you don't appreciate the good ones :)