Robin Nicholas created the most recognisable and widely used font in history, in the form of Arial. Quentin Newark talks to him about its gestation and recent projects FEW graphic designers ever ...

Since emerging in 1982, Monotype Imaging‘s Arial has received its fair share of criticism, having long been regarded as a significantly uglier stand-in for Helvetica. That Microsoft endorsed Arial as ...

Since 1982, when Arial was designed to avoid Helvetica licensing fees, a war has raged within the design community over each font’s superiority. Actually, that’s a lie: more like (understandable) ...

Like its Arial Unicode counterpart, which Monotype Imaging has licensed to hundreds of companies worldwide for use in millions of products that provide multilingual support, Arial Unicode Bold is a ...