Huxrules From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 103 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1213 times:
As far as I know Helvetica is the official font of American Airlines. Its on everything they own. Except for the few MD-80's I flew with them this weekend which looked more like Arial (the e and c on American were wrong). Does anyone know if this is true? A quick way to find out - the ends of the lowercase e and the gap in the lowercase c should be flat if its Helvetica.
Strange question but i like fonts (and airplanes).
Boston92 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 3390 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1129 times:
Helvetica it is. Anyone ever notice while in a mall or something, the store "American Apparel"? It too is Helvetica. That along with the double A's makes its logo extremely similar to AA's.
[Edited 2008-06-23 22:18:13]
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Boston92 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 3390 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1125 times:
Also, it seems to me as if LH also uses Helvetica:
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?"
Huxrules From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 103 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 years 11 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1085 times:
Those are both right- helvetica is used all over the place - however- on the MD-80's the font looks like Airal which is close but not helvelcia. Apparently microsoft made their own font so they didn't have to pay the owners of helvetica a licensing fee. This new font is Airal- looks much the same at first glance. However the ends of the letters aren't horizontal- which gives it away. Its a nerd question but I would like to get some proof- could just be a painting guy getting lazy.
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