The fact that it appears as "Helvetica" in the Windows settings, though, matches the fact that Firefox recognizes it as "Helvetica", which we get from the DirectWrite font collection APIs. I guess different font APIs may expose the font under different (or even multiple) family names, depending which of these strings they use. Note that the "Windows" platform version of this name is "Helvetica Compressed", while the "Unicode" and "Macintosh" versions of it are simply "Helvetica". The important entry here is name ID 1, the "Font Family" name. Then we have platform ID 1 (Macintosh), encoding ID 0 (Roman): Īnd finally platform ID 3 (Windows), encoding ID 1 (Unicode BMP): All Rights Reserved.Helvetica is a trademark of Linotype Company. (See for the IDs involved here.)įirst, platform ID 0 (Unicode), encoding ID 0 (Unicode 1.0 semantics-deprecated): Ĭopyright (c) 1988 Adobe Systems Incorporated. It provides three copies of each name string, for different platform and encoding combinations. I used TTX to examine the name table of the font, and it has some curious inconsistencies.
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