a popular typeface turns 50 this year

a popular typeface turns 50 this year

The Associated Press reports that Helvetica — a popular typeface which, like the air we breathe, is so omnipresent that we barely notice it — is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Click here for a link to a 15-month-old story on movies that have mistakenly shown Helvetica being used in earlier eras — movies like Titanic (1997) and Good Night, and Good Luck (2005).

And click here for even more examples of such films!

UPDATE: Whoops. It turns out that the font used in Good Night, and Good Luck was actually Akzidenz Grotesk. Ah well.

UPPERDATE: Whoops again. Check these overlays. Now it looks like Helvetica again, or perhaps a mixture of the two fonts.


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