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Helvetica, the most common font gets a documentary
BBC1 tonight at 10.35 documentary on this 50 year old font.
I for one won’t be setting the video.
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30 Replies
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youve got to be kidding me……..!
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I’ll be watching it, it sounds interesting and it’s earned me some money.
I must get a life!
Jeremy
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Ill put any money helvetica has made me over the years that you stay awake longer than I do.
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quote David Glen:I for one won’t be setting the video.quote cheryl smith:youve got to be kidding me……..!I guess that means you will be watching cheryl? 😉 :lol1: :lol1:
have to admit, helvetica is one of my most used fonts… i think it stems from having a few versions of it on our old Gerber 4B which only consisted of about 15 fonts in total. 😀
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I’ll be watching that David, cheers.
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I don’t think it’s on BBC Scotland 😕
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Think your right Andrew, cant see it listed.
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quote Andrew Boyle:I don’t think it’s on BBC Scotland 😕
You lucky lucky man….
It means theres no channel tied up with a programme about a font on it leaving you with a possibility of something worth watching :lol1: -
Its on at 11.05 after Dear Green Place BBC1 😀
A doubler!
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I think it will be fascinating, have heard a bit about it, not sure yet if BBC NI are showing it
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Nice one Harry, Its a must see now.
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quote Andrew Boyle:I don’t think it’s on BBC Scotland 😕
there might be something wrong with your arial, Andrew 😀 😀
I’ll get me coat!
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Yea, If its not on in Scotland do get all upset and losing your Tempus.
Ill get my coat also.
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quote James Martin:Dear Green Place 😀fab programme eh james :lol1: :lol1:
nik
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paxman ……the helvetica interviews !!!!!!…i really cant wait …its way up there with lorraine kelly dicussing makeup !!! 😕
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i think it will be intresting….far better watching it than signwriting it 😮
nik
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Boring as buggery. 🙁
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quote brian little:its way up there with lorraine kelly dicussing makeup
watch what you say about Lorraine, Phills about! -googleye-
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wasn’t inspiring was it 😕
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quote Chris Wool:wasn’t inspiring was it 😕
wasnt bad…liked the founder of lynotypes quote…"perfect spacing around the letter" which it has, it is a font we all take for granted as its used on so many things 😀
nik
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Well I thought it was interesting – lots of food for thought
Maybe it’s time for someone to come up with a new "best seller" font for the 21st century. 😀
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Dear green place is ok Nikola but I was on the phone all the way through.
The programme was ok I thought, I’ve never used the font though, it wasn’t on my computer, can you beleive it?
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quote James Martin:it wasn’t on my computer, can you beleive it?
If you’ve got a PC, yes. It’s because MicroSoft didn’t want to pay the licensing fees for Helvetica, so they invented Arial, which is identical in all the important ways.
Phill, you surprise me. I thought the programme was a lot of self satisfied designers pontificating.
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best part of the program was the designer who was so fed up of using helvetica, he decided to use the most random font he could so he went to the end of his font list and there was ‘Zapf Dingbats’. He said you couldnt read it, but it wasnt worth reading in the first place.
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i found the initial part of the program very interesting, how it came to be, and what makes it so good as a font. but, after that it was seriously sleep inducing ! glad i watched what i did though !
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I had a company from China want to know the font I used for a sign being sent to China, so they could match it for some engrish signs they had to add to the sign list.
Told them it was Helvetica Bold. They said they had never heard of it 😮
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wasn’t fascinating, but was interesting to hear and see the thought processes of the font designers. Maybe suffered from being cut for telly.
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Here you go – a new font design to rival the popularity of Helvetica – destined for greatness – and it’s yours to download FOC 😀
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=23847 -
Thanks Phill. I’ve been searching for Fenton Wide Italic for ages for a plumber’s van. Red with a black outline I reckon, niiiiice.
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quote Robert Lambie:quote brian little:its way up there with lorraine kelly dicussing makeup
watch what you say about Lorraine, Phills about! -googleye-
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you telling me te guys got a passion for this woman ….oh really ….oh thats …nice ….oh your really great …you look really nice
so ell me bin laden ….your not a really nice nice boy are you …grrr …thanks rob youve givin me some serious amo next time phill slags me off 😀 😀 😀 😀
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