Comments on: Do You Hate Helvetica?

By: a_random_guest

a_random_guest — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:54:20 +0000

About the "Switzerland and Europe not being much hung up on Helvetica", I gotta say that it's wrong.
I'm a graphic designer, living in Switzerland, and Helvetica is praticly everywhere.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:58:57 +0000

Hi there,
I was fascinated by the interview. I am currently doing a dissertation on Helvetica and am conducting an online questionnaire. It only takes a few minutes but would love all your thoughts! Its at http://www.thisisluke.co.uk/helvetica Thanks in advance,
Luke

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:37 +0000

I heart helvetica (helvetica neue). Where else can you find a font family that is as classic and timeless in a variety of weights: thin, light, regular, bold, heavy and black and also in regular, condensed and expanded versions? Other sans serif fonts on my to use list are futura, frutiger, din, universe and century gothic.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:55:02 +0000

That’s absolutely rediculous. Helvetica is the easiest font to read, pretty much, of all time. It’s my favorite. Not necessarily the one I use the most. But it is the best.

By: Helvetica and Marmite

Helvetica and Marmite — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:04:41 +0000

[...] And there is an equally-abundant abundance of people who hate Helvetica. They grumble that, oh, it’s characterless, and it’s ubiquitous, and it doesn’t have ligatures, and it doesn’t have a proper italic variant, and it doesn’t have serifs, and it’s not on their Microsoft Windows computers. Here, read this craziness. [...]

By: risotto

risotto — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:35:06 +0000

Kevin Scarbrough said: I motion that everyone whom hates Helvetica is banned from owning anything made by Apple

Huh?

I don’t recall Apple using Helvetica as part of the corporate identity. Sure, for long text in manuals and the like, but I don’t remember them using it in a consistent Helvetica-represents-Apple way. I was annoyed when they made the switch from the fairly-distinctive narrow Apple Garamond to the lovely-but-bog-standard Myriad. It’s grown on me, though.

Speaking of Myriad… does anyone else miss Multiple Master fonts? It was so nice to be able to change the width of characters on the fly in Illustrator. *Sigh.*

By: Q

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:55:51 +0000

i don’t hate helvetica i just think Max Miedinger started with akzidenz grotezk and changed it for the worse! I think that helvetica could be much more well designed, it has some details that are inconsistent, i prefer frutiger’s humanist 777.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Realizing I’m commenting on a pretty old post I still want to drop a few lines of chars.

Helvetica is indeed a nice typeface for headlines and spots in its Light/Thin versions or Bold/Heavy versions. In Regular font style it might be a bit dull though, and I’m not saying it is the best (because it’s not) but it is quite versatile.

It’s become a time-marker, and as such it works nicely to use in graphics related to the time period or to modernism in general.

Even though it’s over-used my beliefs are it can still be used in sucessful projects, proving a point, making a statement.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:55:37 +0000

I guess everybody’s got to hate something. Sounds like Vinney hates the way it is sometimes used more than he hates the font. If so, then I’m with him on that one. Personally, I like the font. Use it frequently. Never had a complaint.

By: Antonea | VelvetAnt Design Blog

Antonea | VelvetAnt Design Blog — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:19:03 +0000

I can definitely respect Vinny’s opinions. It is sad when you see Helvetica used in the wrong places or recreated with horrible kerning. Yuck! I love Helvetica…a lot!