Helvetica Neue® about

Helvetica Neue® About this font family Helvetica grew in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and more versions of the family were introduced. This led to vast confusion: the same weight is often referred to by two different names, design features often vary from one face to another, and so on. In the early 1980s, […]

Typeface Design – making new ideas work

Typeface Design – making ideas work. By London sign writer Nick Garrett Each curve struck by custom made chisel edged signwriters brush, follows a memorised pattern or cutting in profile.  For example Helvetica has a completely different DNA to Franklin Gothic, Univers and Gill sans.   Typeface design is something top signwriters pull up every […]