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Helvetica is celebrated and loathed for its ubiquity. Now, the 62-year-old font is getting a face lift for the digital age.
BMW owners, it's not your imagination. The words on the navigation screen are as they appear in BMW Type Light. The trademarked font is used cohesively in all official BMW-related matters — from ...
Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years.
“Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes and clean corners, is ubiquitous.
Ted: While this font is often mistaken for Helvetica, it’s actually Helvetica Bold. I can actually hear the sound of her vagina being boarded up.
Ted Gordon writes: "Adding PostScript fonts to OS X can cause problems, especially with the Helvetica font as well as other fonts that also have a TrueType version already installed. Adobe is ...
One of the most popular fonts in the world, Helvetica, is getting its first major overhaul in several decades. Indeed, as Gizmodo points out, the last time ...
Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces on the planet. Here’s why Monotype decided to remake it. Helvetica was dreamed up as a universal typeface in 1957 and it’s still incredibly ...
Helvetica wasn't always the cold, rational typeface it is today. For the first time, someone is bringing back its beauty.
Helvetica Now: Monotype’s redesigned typeface offers character options such as a straight-legged capital R and a “single-storey” lowercase a, like the handwritten form of the character ...