The Helvetica Killer
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- Rand0
antiseptic
- airey0
first world douchiness™®©
- JazX0
Didn't they kill Akzidenz Grotesk too...?
- marychain0
Aktiv is ugly.
keep moving
- 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'.
- 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
- realist0
H. Berthold AG for life
- vaxorcist0
akzidens...
- 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
- utopian0
I thought that Arial was the Helvetica killer?
- harlequino0
Helvetica
He is our hero
Helvetica
Get rid of
Helvetica
Step on Helvetica
Helvetica
We love you HelveticaOOOoohhhhhhhhhhh....
- jaylarson0
Fun read. Thanks C.
- monospaced0
You cannot kill that which has no life.
- 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
- 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
- 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