Helvetica had been very popular lately with it's birthday being on May 9th and written up on the BBC News. It is now featured on Business Week with a article about it's use in well established logos.

"Every typeface is made to solve some type of problem. They're design tools. Helvetica wasn't designed with anything specific in mind. It was designed to be a jack of all trades," observes Tobias Frere-Jones, director of typography at Hoefler & Frere-Jones in New York, and critic at Yale University School of Art.

Labels: Helvetica, typefaces, typography

Once there was a typeface called Helvetica.
It was extremely popular.
Later came a software company called Microsoft.
They "borrowed" Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial.
This inferior typeface is now on millions of desktops all over the world.
Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off in these ten examples?

Labels: Arial, Helvetica, typefaces, typography

Do you love fonts and typography? Then check out The 100 Top Typefaces. The typefaces were chosen by a panel of experts: Roger Black, Stephen Coles, Jan Middendorp, Veronika Elsner, Ralf Herrman, Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs and Claudia Guminski. It is presented by FontShop. Oh, and do you speak German? If not, good luck reading it but it is still nice to look at as far as design and layout. Plus, all the typefaces are still the same name.

Labels: top 100, typefaces, typography