Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni – review Jonathan Glancey comes face to face with the old masters of typography Share0 Print, the legend … old wooden letters. Photograph: Markos Dolopikos /Alamy Simon Garfield tells the seemingly crackpot story of Cyrus Highsmith, a New York type Read more
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, Linotype remedied this situation by redrawing the entire Helvetica family. Differences in alignment were corrected, subtle features were made consistent from one face to another, and all the weights and widths were designed to work together as one family. More…
