The wonderful Helvetica font it 50 according to the BBC.
For a font to survive that long and still be in such wide use shows that it is a good font. They also say that “imitation is the sincerest of flattery”, and this font has been imitated more than most.
As people seem to want to abuse our eyes every day with the worst of fonts I thought I to would pay tribute to one of the best of fonts.
Perhaps it’s time that we started building “bad design” indicators into modern publishing and office productivity tools so people could learn the errors of their ways.
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It is interesting that font names are protected by copyright. I presume that it is difficult to protect the shapes, but that accounts for the change of names for Times New Roman.
For the IT history question – do you remember the DR GEM equivalent font was called Swiss?
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Oh yes, I remember Swiss because I spent hours creating slides with it in so they could be printed out onto transparencies for presentation.
I can’t actually rememebr the name of the program we used in those days. Was it Freelance?
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