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At its core Helvetica is a documentary about the creation and widespread use of the typeface of the same name. If that sounds boring to you, well guess what, it often is. The film, directed by Gary ...

After months of hearing about it from friends and designers, I finally got a chance to see the documentary, Helvetica, on the big screen this past weekend, and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a lively, ...

Few typefaces have achieved household name status. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Maybe. Helvetica—definitely. So when it came to updating the famed sans-serif developed by Swiss designer Max ...

Editor’s Note: Some of the logos in the gallery that accompanies this story did not represent the Helvetica typeface. The gallery has been edited to reflect that. In this way, the Helvetica font has ...

As the Walker Art Center’s Andrew Blauvelt pointed out when conducting a media tour of the Walker’s recently-closed exhibit Graphic Design: Now in Production, 20 years ago most people didn’t even know ...

It’s the typeface that greets you on your tax forms. It announces MBTA station stops. Its sans-serif letters glow in the night outside Target and CVS. In the world of typography, Helvetica is as ...