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this is weird, but aparently the classic Helvetica font isn't on my pc anymore. utterly strange and frustrating. can someone help me out to get it back?the classic one, not the 'ultra thin,etc.." stuff. |
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I can't seem to find it either in the fonts folder, although I can select it in applications such as Word. Odd. |
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well,i can't even select it in word.. :( |
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i could be completely wrong but, i don't think helvetica is one of microsoft's core fonts. i think 'helvetica' is more of a macintosh font, where it's windows cousin is arial. anywhoo... the point being that helvetica isn't free, and unless you bought some program like corel, that comes with a font package (or downloaded the font off kazaa or something) it might not've ever been on your pc. 's a pretty neat online font previewer. and 's a link to buy helvetica. |
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thanx, i didn't know that. i knew it wasn't free, but i thought it came with the whole windows package |
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hmm.... now that's interesting. same thing happens to me. shows up in word, but not in my FONTS folder |
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aha! ;p |
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I think there's something a bit special about Helvetica. In Word it has a little printer icon next to it, and in Illustrator it has an asterisk, where all the other fonts don't. I can't select it at all in Notepad. Maybe there is the assumption that it is a printer font and hence available on the device you are printing to. |
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Not entirely relevant, but interesting nonetheless, here is an article on |
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Helvetica look more boring than Arial to my eye... Much more strict. |
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i prefer . : ) i don't think i have normal Helvetica either on mac os X... nor Old English Text (!!) ' _' |
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the font i'm searching for at the moment is by ... i have some of collections too, some of them (not all, it's often mixed bags) are really cool |
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dude, i freakin' looked around all day for this answer, and i can't find any info about it. now i'm currious. if you figured out what was going on please let me know. i'll keep looking too. is a link to the microsoft core fonts just in case you need one of them. |
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yeah, it never intrigued me as much as today. i too searched for any answers, but without luck. let the search continue ;) |
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well, i've got my peeps on three other messageboards currious about this as well, so if there's anyone on the web that knows anything about it hopefully it'll turn up soon. |
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i always wanted to know what happened to Chiller, i loved that. |
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as far as the MS WORD issue goes; it appears that word is claiming to have helvetica installed, however it is actually arial. check it out. they are both exactly the same. so, the computer actually doesn't have helvetica installed, it just claims to and displays arial. more as details unravel. |
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damn, you're right. How can MS get away with using Arial as a Helvetica replacement? They should just fess up to not having Helvetica installed. |
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"When Microsoft made TrueType the standard font format for Windows 3.1, they opted to go with Arial rather than Helvetica, probably because it was cheaper and they knew most people wouldn't know (or even care about) the difference." my guess is that microsoft is trying to have it's cake and eat it too. they put helvetica on the list, use arial instead, and hope nobody notices. |
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