![]() The end strokes of "S" and "C" are horizontal in Helvetica while in Arial they are at an angle. The top of "t" is cut off at angles in Arial whereas in Helvetica "t" has straight cuts. The bowl of "a" flows back into the stem like "s" in Helvetica, where as the bowl is intersected with a slight curve in Arial. The a in Helvetica has a tail while Arial does not. The x- height of both Arial and Helvetica are same, which is why they are often confused for each other. Helvetica and Arial share many similar characters but some characters are different. In 2001 Lange helped Berthold complete the AG series with the additions of AG light italic, Super Italic, light condensed, condensed, medium condensed, extrabold italic, light extended italic, extended italic and medium extended italic.The differences in the letters a, r, t, C, S, G and R in Arial and Helvetica Lange was instrumental in developing the Akzidenz-Grotesk program at Berthold in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() Under the direction of Günter Gerhard Lange, Berthold added AG Medium Italic (1963), AG ExtraBold (1966), AG Italic (1967), AG ExtraBold Condensed & Italic (1968), AG Super (1968). ![]() ![]() In the 1950s Günter Gerhard Lange, then art director at Berthold, began a project to enlarge the typeface family, adding a larger character set, but retaining all of the idiosyncrasies of the 1898 face. The Theinhardt foundry later merged with Berthold and also supplied the regular, medium and bold weights. Originally named “Accidenz-Grotesk” the design originates from Royal Grotesk light by royal type-cutter Ferdinand Theinhardt. “Akzidenz” indicates its intended use as a typeface for commercial print runs such as publicity, tickets and forms, as opposed to fine printing, and “grotesque” was a standard name for sans-serif typefaces at the time.īerthold first published Akzidenz-Grotesk in 1898. How about 20,000+ Commercial Fonts with Unlimited DownloadsĪkzidenz-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface family originally released by the Berthold Type Foundry of Berlin. ![]()
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