helvetica – Dave Kellam

Give ‘em Helvetica t-shirt by WORDS BRAND

Give ‘em Helvetica t-shirt by WORDS BRAND

HelvetiCandy by Samuel Carter Mensah.

HelvetiCandy by Samuel Carter Mensah.

NYC’s New Maps Orient You Like A GPS Monotype created

NYC’s New Maps Orient You Like A GPS

Monotype created a new version of Helvetica (famously used in NYC’s subway stops) called Neue Helvetica DOT. Its most easily noted distinction would be its rounded dot, an obvious play on words that references the fact that Helvetica’s dots are usually squares. From this typeface, Pentagram created a set of icons for services like bathrooms, hospitals, and transportation, mirroring curves in the lettering to construct the images.

ultrasparky: Monotype — yes, Monotype — Helvetica, 1971

ultrasparky:

Monotype — yes, Monotype — Helvetica, 1971

Eric Spiekermann’s most overrated things in graphic design

Eric Spiekermann’s most overrated things in graphic design

GReat Ways to Differentiate Helvetica from Arial, a print by

GReat Ways to Differentiate Helvetica from Arial, a print by George Drury.

Neue Haas Grotesk Brings the Original Helvetica into the Digital

Neue Haas Grotesk Brings the Original Helvetica into the Digital Age | Typophile

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System – WSJ.com

Mr. Shaw is irritated with the widespread belief that the modern New York subway system has always been associated with the Swiss typeface Helvetica. This misperception was fueled by the attention the typeface received in 2007 on the 50th anniversary of its introduction, especially in Gary Hust wit’s “Helvetica,” a documentary survey of the astonishing ubiquity of a lettering style that appears over the entrances of American Apparel and Staples, on Lufthansa airplanes and New York City garbage trucks, on Comme des Garçons bags, and, yes, on New York subway signs. But the last, as Mr. Shaw shows, was not always so.