This is the new Helvetica

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/16/this-is-the-new-helvitca.html

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[agies]

@beschizza beat you to it by nearly a week https://boingboing.net/2019/04/10/helvetica-new-typeface-redesi.html

[semiotix]

[philipstorry]

Bad @semiotix! Naughty @semiotix!
Now go to the corner and quietly think about what you’ve done.

[fnordius]

I wonder if the typo in the title is on purpose?
^{Apparently not, as it has now been corrected.}

[CarlMud]

Nah:

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[enkidoodler]

Looks like some animal took a stringy dump. Man that is evil incarnate.
Still, better kerning pairs than Helvetica Now!

[Uniq]

Helv yeah!

[R.Birks]

My graphic-designer-turned-entomologist friend uses those two fonts exclusively when people ask him to design stuff

[Skeptic]

That’s just grunged comic sans. This is Comic Papyrus:

[moortaktheundea]

Oh goody. It looks like they are playing with the ligatures more instead of dealing with the numbers. grumble grumble One more Helvetica to match.

[Aronnax]

[Ceran_Swicegood]

They didn’t know about offset printing in 1957? Phototypesetting was already a thing.

[FGD135]

[LurkingGrue]

What does Helvetica have that it doesn’t already? It wasn’t slightly re-tweaked by us so we can sell it.

[benboy]

“Helvetica Now is the tummy-tuck, facelift and lip filler we’ve been wanting, but were too afraid to ask for …"

I’m not afraid to ask … I want my serifs back, please … Helvetica is the florescent light of fonts. I’m aware I’m in the minority on this …

[Hylyx]

Meet the new sans!! same as the old sans!!

[anon32019413]

I’m not a font guy and certainly no expert, but I’ll remain skeptical until there is a theory of type where a set of axioms can be used to prove the qualities of a particular type face. I’m fine with good old Baskerville; perhaps supplemented with Garamond, Clarendon, Didone (any of them), and Grotesque No. 9.

[Hylyx]

What did Times New Roman say to a scofflaw Helvetica?
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I’m the serif in this town…