Degrading Helvetica by Patrick Branigan
A paper landscape created to comment on the consequences of the visual world becoming oversaturated with the font Helvetica.
Degrading Helvetica by Patrick Branigan A paper landscape created to
Helveti.ca Archive
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This serves as an archive for the Helveti.ca Tumblr blog. That site lost the link to the custom domain, styling, etc.
Imported: Dec 15 2025
Updated: Dec 15 2025
Creative Review – The Helvetica killer. Helvetica may be the
Creative Review – The Helvetica killer.
Helvetica may be the world’s most popular typeface but one man is having none of it. Type designer Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag, views Helvetica’s popularity with a mixture of bemusement and irritation. So he has decided to do something about it. With the Dalton Maag team, he has created Aktiv Grotesk, a typeface designed to provide an alternative (and, he hopes, improvement) to Helvetica.
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type.
Helvetify for Safari. Helvetify is an extension that basically sets
Helvetify for Safari.
Helvetify is an extension that basically sets the web page’s font to, yes, Helvetica (Neue to be exact.) With Safari 5, Helvetica on the web truly looks beautiful.
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02 Print design and production Volume 2
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02
Print design and production
Volume 2 – Issue 6, 1966
From the archive of Michael Hernan
Type Shirts from DADADA Studio.
Type Shirts from DADADA Studio.
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
I’ve taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I’ve redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
El Vética t-shirt. Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador.
El Vética t-shirt.
Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador. El Vética, also known as El Kernudo, fought out of the small town of San Serif. He held the Mexican Inter-Continental belt for an unprecedented 7 years, from 1977–84. He also starred in several telenovelas, most notably Las esposas del Luchador and El Santo y sus Súper Amigos.
The differences between Akzidenz, Univers, Helvetica and Arial
Unigrid by Massimo Vignelli for the National Park Services. See
FTBLL t-shirts by Blanka.
FTBLL t-shirts by Blanka.
Elevens from Gradiate. Elevens are a new range of T-Shirts
Elevens from Gradiate.
Elevens are a new range of T-Shirts celebrating hypothetical all-time best XI’s of various football clubs and countries. This England design features 11 classic players plus the one manager to bring that elusive trophy to the home of football.