But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.
Explanation
The reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn't want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.
This is the category called Sans-Serif
Explanation
The name means 'without serifs', which are 'extra' identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1
Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist ::: spoiler such as: From Apple:
- New York
From Google:
- Roboto
- Merriweather
- Lora
From Microsoft:
- Georgia
- Aptos Serif
- Cambria
Open source:
- EB Garamond
- Instrument Serif
- Libre Baskerville