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Humanist, shmumanist. Legato. http://typographica.org/000969.php hhp

Are you joking, or serious? Serious. It makes total sense to me. At what point is it no longer copying? It depends. If you’re doing it for commercial purposes you’re probably falling outside of fair use and should err on the side of caution.

Joe, There were no Futurist typefaces that I know of. Most of the movements of the time did not generate an actual typeface. Making typefaces in those years involved time, money, technical knowledge and therefore a connection to an established foundry. Young avante garde arty folks rarely could put that combination together then. Even the Constructivists did mostly hand lettering or linocuts. Bayer’s work waited years before someone...

Pragmatica is not a clone of Helvetica. What would you say then Maxim, more of a miracle—immaculate conception?

One of the great things I love seeing on Typophile is mediocre work (but a good idea) posted in crit (be it a logo or typeface) and then being able to watch it evolve through critique into something (quite often) remarkable.

@epsilicon I’ve been looking at the source code for Facelift. Thanks for posting this. I’ve become re-interested. Just as the increase in bandwidth has made @font-face a viable proposition so too, might some of these image replacement techniques be worth a second look. Some sites might not want to settle for the fallback font-family. On a well-optimized site the performance hit for this kind of stuff might be acceptable if...

designed by Bruno Munari, one of the greatest XX century designer One of my favourite quotes from Munari goes something like this: “I’m one of the few persons that can say to have a futurist past”

I like the rounded bottoms, but the tops look like he cut the blinds apart.

Except in signs, I don’t see Helvetica that often, and I have to admit that in my opinion Helvetica is more attractive than Univers - or Gill Sans; which doubtless exposes my lack of taste. (And my opinion of Times Roman is that it will stick around as long as Caslon did.) But I don’t think that Helvetica and Times Roman go well together (unless they’re very different in size, so the issue of the stylistic clash...

Hrant, whom do you imagine that I am ’appeasing’? I have spent time working with the Helvetica design, and I am making comments about the quality of that design based on intimate knowledge of it. And one of the points I have made about Helvetica a number of time, contra your ’homogenized Helveeta’, is that this is actually a quite idiosyncratic design with many oddities of construction, ultimately only...