Today's moment in type ubiquity brought to you by the most famous font in the world: Happy Birthday, Helvetica!Now, you're 50!
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Yes! Helvetica has also become the first font inducted into the permanent collection of MOMA. I also never knew til the other day that Arial is just a Helvetica knockoff commisioned by Microsoft cause they didn't want to pay for Helvetica! Next time I wanna use Arial, I'll use Helvetica instead!
Writer, photographer, DJ, and graphic designer Mick Jeffries is based in the heart of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, and travels as far and wide as he can as often as he can.
3 comments:
Yes! Helvetica has also become the first font inducted into the permanent collection of MOMA. I also never knew til the other day that Arial is just a Helvetica knockoff commisioned by Microsoft cause they didn't want to pay for Helvetica! Next time I wanna use Arial, I'll use Helvetica instead!
Oh Yeah-- that previous post was by me (JT.) For some reason I can't get my login to work>
I'll celebrate when its "Gill Sans" birthday. I use that more.
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