Hellvetica typeface "kerns in hell"

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/29/hellvetica-typeface-kerns-in.html

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A better person than me would not substitute this font on a coworkers machine.

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Prior art:
500x450x1

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I’ve long wanted to invent a font called BadK ern.
But the thought of a mob of heavily armed typographers bearing down on my residence like the wrath of God has always stayed my hand.

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  1. Substitute Hellvetica for Helvetica
  2. Print out your 'zine
  3. Crumple it up, drive over with car, etc
  4. Xerox it then scan it
  5. Call it RAYGUN
  6. Profit?
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try Arial

Oh Dayum @beschizza!!!

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Here’s another example of somebody ignoring the purpose of the sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” It needs to include all 26 letters of the alphabet, so changing “jumps” to “jumped” gets that wrong. /pedantic

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See Keming

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2hvdz7

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I am rather disappointed that the word “kern” doesn’t kern to “kem” in this font. Such a missed opportunity.

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Besides, this one is better, in every way:

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

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But wouldn’t it ligate to “kem”?

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Ok, this is known as the helvetica scenario.

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Sex prof gives quiz back with no mild joy

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image

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Oblig:

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Came looking for the apt xkcd; leaving satisfied.

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