Linotype has announced a new initiative to celebrate the 50 years of Helvetica's straight-talking success as a typeface. Designers worldwide are invited to take part in the Helvetica NOW Poster ...

So no, the Star Wars logo nor the Helvetica font that inspired it do not have actual origins despite the pervasive myth. ... In a terrific Hopes&Fears feature on fonts and movie posters, ...

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monotype today introduced Helvetica Now Variable, offering over a million new Helvetica Now styles in one state-of-the-art font file.Helvetica Now Variable builds ...

“Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes and clean corners, is ubiquitous. It is ...

The right font can elevate any poster and make your message clearer. A wrong one, on the other hand, can shift the mood of your design or worse – make it illegible.

One of the few places the Helvetica font has failed to infiltrate over the past half-century is the graveyard – Roman typefaces such as Perpetua or Bembo tend to work better on headstones. But ...

But as these colorful typographic posters by Argentinian designer Fernando de Carabassa show, Helvetica and Star Wars might just be the graphic design equivalent of chocolate and peanut butter: a ...

Helvetica, a film about the life of a typeface so familiar to us, demands we take a second look at how we see words everyday. It will be screened during the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF ...