<story><title>So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?</title><url>http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>I immediately got 17/20, missing only the ones where there were no lower case characters. How do you distinguish between in these 3 cases? &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/a/NOLoI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/a/NOLoI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jongold</author><text>Ruining the game for everyone; two things I love about Helvetica&lt;p&gt;— Terminals at right angles to the stroke. &lt;a href=&quot;http://c.jon.gd/image/3Q0y2u323j3C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://c.jon.gd/image/3Q0y2u323j3C&lt;/a&gt; . Arial looks particularly sloppy with jaunty terminals. It is possible to have a similar grotesque sans-serif feel with offset terminals (see Univers &amp;#38; Akzidenz Grotesk) but they&apos;re a crucial part of what give Helvetica its character.
- The uppercase R. Has a really strong leg compared to Arial&apos;s half-assed flaky leg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callum85</author><text>A thing that helps me distinguish them is that Helvetica is a bit more decorative with some of the capitals, like G and R. I think the Arial designers were probably trying to make it &quot;even more Helvetica than Helvetica&quot;, by simplifying the flourishey/decorative bits, like the bottom thing on a G and the curvy bit at the top of the slanty line of the R. (These are the proper typographical terms, btw.)</text></comment>
<story><title>So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?</title><url>http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>I immediately got 17/20, missing only the ones where there were no lower case characters. How do you distinguish between in these 3 cases? &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/a/NOLoI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/a/NOLoI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jongold</author><text>Ruining the game for everyone; two things I love about Helvetica&lt;p&gt;— Terminals at right angles to the stroke. &lt;a href=&quot;http://c.jon.gd/image/3Q0y2u323j3C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://c.jon.gd/image/3Q0y2u323j3C&lt;/a&gt; . Arial looks particularly sloppy with jaunty terminals. It is possible to have a similar grotesque sans-serif feel with offset terminals (see Univers &amp;#38; Akzidenz Grotesk) but they&apos;re a crucial part of what give Helvetica its character.
- The uppercase R. Has a really strong leg compared to Arial&apos;s half-assed flaky leg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevanl</author><text>1) Completely round O = Helvetica
2) The C&apos;s. Helvetica = flat endings not slanted
3) Like a perfectly round O, the M&apos;s have more of a squarish spacing</text></comment>