helvetica
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After 36 Years, Helvetica Gets A Much-Needed Facelift
Everyone has an Google have been shifting to their custom Helvetica-esque-but-not-quite fonts to deal with some of its quirks. Rather than let Helvetica die a slow death, all 40,000 characters in the world’s most iconic typeface have been revamped into a new font called — wait for it — Helvetica Now.
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Helvetica’s Long-Lost Rival Has Been Resurrected After 35 Years
They found them in a file cabinet. The original masters for a legendary typeface called Haas Unica, designed in the late 1970s and killed shortly thereafter by what amounts to bad luck — and the digital age.
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Get The Entire Story Behind Helvetica, Objectified And Urbanized
Have you seen Helvetica, the documentary about typography? Or maybe Objectified, the doc that tackled design? And what about Urbanized, which dug into the design of cities? You probably have. If you haven’t, few documentary series capture things Gizmodo cares about more than
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Omipotent Colonialist Photoshopping Hand Remakes Third World
Oh, wretched, impoverished shopkeepers of the developing world! If only you could put down your weary, paint-splattered arm and stop making handcrafted signs for your stores. If only you had the brilliant Swiss diamond-light of Helvetica. Enter your minimalist paradise.