The Fallacy of a Helvetica Substitute Font-Stack
I constantly see these posts about Helvetica substitute font stacks that list Humanist faces. Helvetica is a Neo-Grotesque and except for Univers and Folio, and the Arial/Arimo fonts, and Roboto, kinda.
CSS Typography and Vertical Rhythm
Relative to font-size i.e. proportional line-height
The Scoorge of Dreamweaver
I see this CSS font stack declaration all the time font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;. But what exactly is the point? In fact there is absolutely no point in declaring Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif as all Apple products have Arial installed. So no one — except maybe some UNIX user who happens to not have Arial installed but does happen to have Helvetica installed, or maybe some Mac user who has deinstalled Arial — will ever see Helvetica. The correct declaration should be Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif. So, why is this?