Dave Kellam

After reading Ben Terret’s post regarding how many helveticas it would take to reach the moon, Jason Kottke decided to examine what size Helvetica would need to be set at to fill the space between the Earth and the Moon.

But let’s say you wanted to stretch one “helvetica” over the same distance…at what point size would you need to set it? The answer is 282.6 billion points. At that size, the “h” would be 44,600 miles tall, roughly 5.6 times as tall as the Earth. Here’s what that would look like:

He also takes a look at the equivalent type size of the two celestial bodies.