Helvetica is great, it is flexible, it is overused…but I love it. I saw this documentary a few years ago, and honestly it is quite on point. A typeface can make or break any design, and by using something that does nothing but function as a readable symbol.
A lot of the other typefaces I have seen work as very deliberate and project-centric in their aesthetic. Sometimes fonts are able to be used over again for another design that has a different intent, but Helvetica is the only once I see as the most versatile.
At the beginning of the documentary there is a small note about the personality and expression of fonts. Yes, a font should be expressive, but it should not distract because of desire to make the typeface a crutch for the design. Helvetica is able to be this crutch, but it can also blend seamlessly into the overall aesthetic.
Comic Sans is awful, basically the bizarro world equivalent to Helvetica. It is overwhelmingly recognizable and just as distracting. Iconic and awful.
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