The Helvetica Killer
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- TheBlueOne0
You cannot kill Helvetica.
- Continuity0
I'm not particularly fond of Aktiv; some of the shapes are close to Franklin Gothic (which I despise), especially the lowercase a.
- dbloc0
Aktiv doesn't show up on my iPhone.
- bored2death0
gimme a break
- drgz0
Let's discuss this
- dbloc0
we can't even get rid of Arial. I don't think Hel is going anywhere.
- TheBlueOne0
I thought Galaxie Polaris & Akkurat killed Helvetica in 2004?
- I thought Erik killed it with Meta.monospaced
- Erik tried. The was not The Chosen One after all.Continuity
- monospaced0
How can they kill Helvetica with a typeface that, at first glance, looks like Helvetica?
- Likely the product of a very, very jealous type designer who wanted a slice of Swiss Fame®Continuity
- It stays.ETM
- monospaced0
It doesn't stay.
- ukit0
I liked this part.
Once I had a long debate with Hamish Muir on a round table discussion at the RCA. He said ‘I just use Helvetica for everything’. We were almost at each other’s throats over that. I said ‘How can you?’
- Douglas0
Gotham is the only thing giving it a run for it's money right now.
- too much style, maybemonospaced
- same problem with Helvetica. "a" and "R" for instance, too much stylenuggler
- that's debatablemonospaced
- http://www.qbn.com/t…bigtrick
- jaylarson0
I'll take Alright Sans or New Rail Alphabet over it.
- And Haas Unica, if/when it ever gets released.Continuity
- "You are not the anything-killer until you actually kill something"jaylarson
- yeah, good luck with that.jaylarson
- SigDesign0
You cannot kill Helvetica with another, shittier, Helvetica clone
- wordmonospaced
- helvetica is actually a good typeface... just cause something is overused doesn't make the original design badSigDesign
- monospaced0
You cannot kill that which has no life.
- jaylarson0
Fun read. Thanks C.
- harlequino0
Helvetica
He is our hero
Helvetica
Get rid of
Helvetica
Step on Helvetica
Helvetica
We love you HelveticaOOOoohhhhhhhhhhh....