A documentary on Helvetica you say?

[techs]

I have found the strangest thing ever on Netflix. A documentary on Helvetica.
Seriously, who looks at a font and thinks what it needs is a documentary?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[lxskllr]

It's pretty famous/popular. I don't get the Helvetica love. I think it's bland and ordinary.

 

[IronWing]

Didn't San Serif play Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia?

 

[Fayd]

It's pretty famous/popular. I don't get the Helvetica love. I think it's bland and ordinary.

I don't get helvetica either. personally I'm fond of palatino. If i'm not using computer modern, i'm using palatino.

 

[DesiPower]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

 

[techs]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Don't tell Hollywood or they will make a movie about it.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't get helvetica either. personally I'm fond of palatino. If i'm not using computer modern, i'm using palatino.

Palatino's nice. A couple of my current favorites are Linux Biolinum(fairly normal), and Averia(kinda odd). I like Ubuntu Mono for my terminal font...

 

[KeithTalent]

Decent documentary; it covers design overall and touches on some cool stuff. Certainly a good looking doc.

KT

 

[manly]

Didn't the typographer who created Helvetica recently pass away?

 

[Printer Bandit]

let's use comic sans



said no one ever.

 

[master_shake_]

you can't take my times new roman!

 

[Arcadio]

As a true geek, my favorite is consolas.

 

[IronWing]

I remember spinning out Helvetica labels on one of these babies.


Whoa, youtube has everything.

 

[eldorado99]

Palatino Linotype is where it is at yo'

 

[EvilYoda]

I watched it years ago and actually enjoyed it. I don't remember what brought it to my attention back then though.

 

[Colt45]

helvetica or similar sans serif, and courier are all I use.

 

[angminas]

I watched that a couple of months ago. I thought it was pretty interesting. Fonts are more important than people realize.

 

[acheron]

As a true geek, my favorite is consolas.

That's not a real font, it's just some Microsoft crap. Might as well use Comic Sans.


Also, I've watched the Helvetica documentary. It's good.

 

[_Rick_]

This is what text should look like on the computing machine display!

And this is what it should look like on paper.

 

[xanis]

Palatino's nice. A couple of my current favorites are Linux Biolinum(fairly normal), and Averia(kinda odd). I like Ubuntu Mono for my terminal font...

You should check out Fira Sans. It's the typeface Mozilla developed for Firefox OS, and it has a really nice monospaced variant that I've been using in my console and IDE for a while now. Bonus: It's libre. 😉

 

[Gibsons]

let's use comic sans



said no one ever.

We went through a patent application a year ago or so. The official review, from the USPO, was all in comic sans.

 

[IronWing]

We went through a patent application a year ago or so. The official review, from the USPO, was all in comic sans.

Patent troll?

 

[IronWing]

Fonts are more important than people realize.

They are. I think the availability of lots of fonts and the willingness of early Mac users to employ them with abandon did more to damage the Mac's reputation among "serious users" than anything about the computer itself. I recall reading papers by Mac users that looked like ransom notes with all the font changes.

 

[Gibsons]

Patent troll?

Us or them?

We weren't trolling, it was about using an unusual bacterial species as a platform for recombinant protein engineering and production.

Maybe they were trolling I don't know. Some our stuff was accepted, some rejected. Not sure they were so picky on the rejections, considering so much shit gets patented. Maybe we just got the wrong agent on a hangover Monday, hard to say.

 

[Fritzo]

Been on a Trebuchet kick myself. It just looks so crisp and professional on web pages.

My company's standard font is Verdana, because our company's president is an engineer and he's one of those "The font was created for the web, so it's 100% optimized!" type of people.