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Comment by Henrik Nørgaard Hansen:
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Due to very large doses of font substitution in the early Mac 512 + LaserWriter + MacWrite days, I’m quite allergic to Helvetica. At least when substituted for the then wonderful Geneva bitmap font. Nah, it is not that bad. I just get these flashbacks. Helvetica is indeed very nice.
But anyway, checking how Helvetica and Arial presents some of the more exotic, but perfectly natural, danish letters ÆØÅ, I must say that the representation in Arial is a disgrace: the ring above in Å should not touch the letter A below. Imagine that the dot touched the “i”. Hmm, some variations appears to get it; the Arial Narrow from Monotype for one. Unfortunately these kind of problems are not isolated to the Arials of this world as the Lucida family also suffer in this regard.
I guess the world of fonts needs more of us “international” folks :-)
Regards,
Henrik
