Old vs Neue. The study of a famous font and his bastard brother.

In 2007 a very popu­lar film was crea­ted to docu­ment the 50th anni­ver­sary of this pro­li­fic face.² Accor­ding to not-a-few accounts³ this film only ser­ved to fan the flame of what may have been a pas­sing resur­gence of a fad into an all-out neo-modernist revi­val in the usage of the face. Who can com­plain? Hel­ve­tica is a gift from the Swiss gods of type design. But what of the bastard brother…Helvetica Neue? TravisNeilson presents an excellent analysis.

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