typography
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Helvetica’s Long-Lost Rival Has Been Resurrected After 35 Years
They found them in a file cabinet. The original masters for a legendary typeface called Haas Unica, designed in the late 1970s and killed shortly thereafter by what amounts to bad luck — and the digital age.
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Why One Of The World’s Biggest Font Makers Is Getting Into Emoji
Helvetica and Times New Roman are legendary, instantly recognisable typefaces, and they’re both owned by the biggest type conglomerate in the world. Now, that company is adding emoji and stickers to its holdings.
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These Two Guys Want To Turn The Entire Planet Into A Typeface
Last we checked in with Benedikt Groß and Joey Lee, the designer and geographer had just finished counting the number of pools in Los Angeles (43,123). Now the duo hope to bring their somewhat-insane methodology to a similarly perplexing challenge: How do we find all the buildings on the planet that look like letters from…
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Why You’ve Never Heard Of This Typeface That Defined The 1980s
Apple, Trapper Keeper and Reebok: Three of the most well-known brands of the 1980s, and three companies that used the same futuristic-looking typeface to do it. So why isn’t the typeface a classic like other period pieces *cough*Helvetica*cough*? Fate is a funny thing.