Helvetica is ubiquitous around the world, but despite its popularity, the typeface has some issues: letters scrunch together at small sizes and the space between them can be uneven.

“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 ...

On learning of Helvetica’s 50th birthday, one is tempted to search for signs of age: the slightest sag in a once-pert C, the slope that can creep into the shoulders of an M, the struggle for … ...

Helvetica was dreamed up as a universal typeface in 1957 and it’s still incredibly popular –you see it on everything from clever T-shirts to NYC subway signs. But there are all sorts of things ...

Where Helvetica's capital letters were blocky and tended towards a uniform width, Team'77 restored Unica's capitals to more natural proportions. The designers balanced the thickness of strokes ...

The Helvetica boycott is just one of the engaging tales of typographic obsession in “Just My Type.” Many of them involve designers who, like Mr. Highsmith, have devoted their working lives to ...

Helvetica, the film, opens with a person assembling cast metal letters and binding them tightly. He then presses the letters onto a coating of ink, and proceeds to make an impression on paper ...

Iconic Helvetica Font Gets First Redesign In Decades Charles Nix, ... HYNDMAN: There are lots of foibles in Helvetica, like the way the letters space. The L looks too much like a 1.

Everyone has an opinion about fonts, but Helvetica has long reigned over the modern era.It’s used for brands galore—Panasonic, Jeep, American Airlines, Motorola, 3M, Toyota, to name a few ...

Helvetica's message is this: you are going to get to your destination on time; your plane will not crash; your money is safe in our vault; we will not break the package; the paperwork has been filled ...