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• 2010-07-29

  Do typefaces really matter?

  “The other day I heard that people are getting ‘font paralysis’. They couldn’t move forward with their work because they were unable to decide on which font to use.”

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  Helvetica is a inferior quality vanilla ice cream, one made with water, vanilla extract and vegetable fats instead of real double cream, proper vanilla pods and all. It’s why I don’t use Helvetica but always go for better quality.

  — Not entirely quite unlike vanilla icecream, one of those threads that could only occur on Typophile

• 2010-07-27

  

  Degrading Helvetica by Patrick Branigan

  A paper landscape created to comment on the consequences of the visual world becoming oversaturated with the font Helvetica.

• 2010-07-16

  

  Creative Review - The Helvetica killer.

  Helvetica may be the world’s most popular typeface but one man is having none of it. Type designer Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag, views Helvetica’s popularity with a mixture of bemusement and irritation. So he has decided to do something about it. With the Dalton Maag team, he has created Aktiv Grotesk, a typeface designed to provide an alternative (and, he hopes, improvement) to Helvetica.

• 2010-06-21

  I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

  You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type.

• 2010-06-16

  

  Helvetify for Safari.

  Helvetify is an extension that basically sets the web page’s font to, yes, Helvetica (Neue to be exact.) With Safari 5, Helvetica on the web truly looks beautiful.

• 2010-06-11

  

  Helvetica Trade Advertising 02

  Print design and production Volume 2 - Issue 6, 1966 From the archive of Michael Hernan

• 2010-05-26

  

  Type Shirts from DADADA Studio.

• 2010-05-25

  So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz

  I’ve taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I’ve redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?

• 2010-05-19

  

  El Vética t-shirt.

  Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador. El Vética, also known as El Kernudo, fought out of the small town of San Serif. He held the Mexican Inter-Continental belt for an unprecedented 7 years, from 1977–84. He also starred in several telenovelas, most notably Las esposas del Luchador and El Santo y sus Súper Amigos.