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Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X, and many PostScript computer printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography. It is generally understood that Arial was meant as a cheaper substitute (but not so close as to invite litigation) for Linotype's popular Helvetica. However, a close examination of Helvetica, Arial, and Univers reveals that the latter two are in many respects more similar than the former two. Most of the more striking differences between Arial and Helvetica are actually common to Arial and Univers; the angled tail of the "1", the absence of a tail on the "G", and the angled top of the "t" are good examples.