Few typefaces have achieved household name status. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Maybe. Helvetica—definitely. So when it came to updating the famed sans-serif developed by Swiss designer Max ...
This is the second excerpt from Just My Type. To read the first, “The 8 Worst Fonts in the World,” go here. What is it about the Swiss? Or, to be precise: what is it about the Swiss and their sans ...
The Swiss typeface is 50 and I will be first to pay homage to Miedinger and Hoffmann's elegant uber-font. Love letters ... lead and wood tray of Helvetica Bold, 36 point, 1956-1957. Photograph: ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Steve Hicks, the chief digital creative officer at McGarryBowen, wrote a thoughtful essay for Adweek about the way Helvetica — the typeface used ...
Do you know the difference between Helvetica Bold and Helvetica Black? A contractor in charge of printing the new WMATA station signs for the six stations under rehabilitation did not. Unfortunately ...
One of the few places the Helvetica font has failed to infiltrate over the past half-century is the graveyard – Roman typefaces such as Perpetua or Bembo tend to work better on headstones. But perhaps ...
After almost four years of painstaking work, Monotype has created a new version of Helvetica – the ubiquitous typeface used by everyone from Apple to Nestlé and Lufthansa. We talk to Type Director ...
While it's hard to make a direct link between a typeface and a company's annual revenues, it's clear that corporations and designers now understand the potential power of a logo. And the logos of many ...
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