The Helvetica Killer
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- utopian0
I thought that Arial was the Helvetica killer?
- realist0
Helvetica is a faker and impostor, just a pretty name on a grotesk face
- The student has now become the masterTheBlueOne
- http://en.wikipedia.…
happening just 59 years later...realist
- vaxorcist0
akzidens...
- realist0
H. Berthold AG for life
- stewdio0
Oh F. I find this post offensive. That lowercase 'a' alone is enough to make my stomach curdle. What the hell is with the lowercase 's'?? This typeface is ugly and supporting the hype of it is irresponsible. It's gross. We know it. "Helvetica killer" my ass.
To be fair to @Continuity, I've enjoyed a lot of your posts and this is simply out of character for you ;)
- what's wrong with the s? what's wrong with the a?bigtrick
- The terminals on the s are at whacky angles ...Continuity
- ... and the a looks like the bastard child of Franklin Gothic and a flaccid Smurf.Continuity
- the a's and s's are the work of a devil somewhere who licenses fonts for cheap to Microsoft...vaxorcist
- Continuity0
I think I did it more to take the piss, than anything else. :D
Like I said, Aktiv leaves me pretty cold; especially that lowercase 'a'.
- marychain0
Aktiv is ugly.
keep moving
- JazX0
Didn't they kill Akzidenz Grotesk too...?
- airey0
first world douchiness™®©
- Rand0
antiseptic
- SoulFly0
all kidding aside, when are we getting a new "the" font, when will Helvetica become obsolete? There's gotta be a development into something new.
What do we have to wait for Steve Jobs to tell everyone that Helvetica is dead and kiss his feet in concordance?- trands come and go and uncle helvetica comes back every time. might always do so.airey
- MrT0
And even if it did kill Helvetica, who, outside the design community (and even within it), would know the difference or give a shit?
PR is the common sense killer.
- SoulFly0
Comic Sans almost killed Helvetica in the 90's, that was the closest that Helvetica came to an end.
- egosmoke0
A very interesting read, thanks for sharing.
- Drahcir0
just looks like a helvetica thats been sat on. utterly pointless
whilst this... the original helvetica redrawn
http://www.christianschwartz.com…
mmmmmmmmm....
- set0
I fuckin' <3 Helvetica
- vaxorcist0
I do like Univers