Whilst researching online I came across the website ilovetypography.com and discovered an interesting article about Arial and Helvetica. The article begins with detailed information about when the font was deigned and by whom.

 

The article then continues to unpick the features of each font. The writer points out the differences particularly in the letters “G” “Q” “R” and “1”.

 

After this i continued researching online and found a couple of YouTube videos which is found very interesting! The YouTube Channel “CollegeHumour” has created two videos, “FONT CONFERENCE” and “FONT FIGHT” in which each video the typefaces are personified into different characters. My favourite, the “FONT FIGHT”, is where Arial and Helvetica accuse each other of being copies and with their different teams of fonts behind them they battle it out. Comic sans making an appearance at the end being made out to be “useless”. The Second video “FONT CONFERENCE” has Times New Roman leading the show, with the bad guy as Randsom and Comic Sans saving the day!

I thought they were a great watch and something new and different that I have never seen before.