The Helvetica Killer
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- 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
- airey0
first world douchiness™®©
- 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.
- 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.
- harlequino0
Helvetica
He is our hero
Helvetica
Get rid of
Helvetica
Step on Helvetica
Helvetica
We love you HelveticaOOOoohhhhhhhhhhh....
- 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