The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday.
Posted in » Fonts - by Ades on May 10th, 2007
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The Helvetica font has turned 50 years old today. Helvetica was created by Miedinger with E.Hoffmann in Switzerland. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface’s name was changed by Haas’ German parent company Stempel in 1960 to Helvetica — derived from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland — in order to make it more marketable internationally. Helvetica is now among the most widely used sans-serif typefaces internationally.
Helvetica VS Arial Flash Game
Here is a nice flash game Helvetica VS Arial, where you take the role of Helvetica and beat the Arial ;)
Source: BBC News
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By Free Playstation 3 on Jun 1, 2008
The histroy of fonts is often interesting, I like to see news like this.
Would love to see an article with the histroy of the most popular fonts!