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Within the design community, Helvetica is a really polarizing issue.
What's in a Font? 2008
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Within the design community, Helvetica is a really polarizing issue.
What's in a Font? 2008
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Helvetica is sitting on my shelf waiting for me to watch it right now.
When Your Computer Calls You a Nerd: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Helvetica is a really good documentary and Netflix are most likely proud to have released it.
When Your Computer Calls You a Nerd: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Within the design community, Helvetica is a really polarizing issue.
What's in a Font? 2008
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Helvetica is a terrific film about something taken for granted.
When Your Computer Calls You a Nerd: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Helvetica is about to start, so I'll leave you with something St Clair Bourne said during this afternoon's Power of Ten roundtable: "Media sells soap, but it also carries dreams."
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And the only reason they NEED Helvetica is because the GUI designers thought it looked pretty.
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Helvetica is a relatively contemporary typeface, protected by Trademark owned by Linotype, that was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas Type Foundry in Switzerland.
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For example, Le Confoederatio Helvetica is used to abbreviated as Swiss or Switerland [. ch].
ruzuzu commented on the word Helvetica
"If you're a typeography nerd (or the kind of person who knows when to say "typeface" and when to say "font") you'll appreciate the joke. Even if you're not a typeface nerd, but you know what Helvetica is and why it's better than - well, than some other typefaces - you'll still appreciate the joke."
--Google's April Font Gag
By Giles Turnbull on April 1, 2011
April 1, 2011