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		ipaddr on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019 Helvetica's terminal strokes are either horizontally or vertically cut, while those of Arial are slightly angled.

saagarjha on April 3, 2021 [–]

Yes, that’s a big part of it, but in general it’s just a bunch of tweaks that make it look sloppier (the changes to R and G particularly annoy me). It really is an off-brand Helvetica in pretty much every sense.

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