That's How It Happened

My boss has a typographic mania for Arial. Every piece of work I produce for her has to be in Arial, or if possible Arial Bold. Even in her kindest moments she refers to Tahoma as the font of c*%@s. What I didn't know is that Arial's popularity and ubiquity is mostly due to Bill Gates, and that Arial owes everything to the more venerable Helvetica. If you'd like to avoid the ambiguous morals of Arial use, then you'll need to be very familiar with Arial spotting. Incidentally while we're on a font nerd trip here, text messaging is so over, text massaging is where it's at.