mario in manhattan

A thousand words

I've begun to have a growing appreciation for Helvetica these past few months...

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Perfect. (If that sentence rendered as Arial for you, shame shame)

My slight obsession with typography, and Helvetica in particular stems from 3 things:
1. Learning to draw text
2. Going to Switzerland last year for a day
3. Reading The Scourge of Arial. A most interesting read.

Basically, the idea is that Arial is a cheap bastardized knock-off of the perfection that is Helvetica. Stop using it. Hey, wake up! Stop using it.
If you're interested, take the quiz and play the game. There is a slight problem, however, and that is that Helvetica is not free. The price you pay for beauty...


One more thing. I'm lucky to post this entry on the same day that the Helvetica movie premieres at SXSW.

Yes, I'm serious..

..and I want to see it.

..Is it me, or is the entire Internet in (central?) Texas right now?

+1 Austin