Helvettaca or something like that?

Disclaimer: This is an excerpt from an actual email from Cooper’s teacher that came to my inbox yesterday. I almost fell over when I read it. As designers, we’re trying to raise design-minded kids and Cooper has always shown an affinity for typography from a very young age… but no one will believe us when we say we aren’t forcing this on him. He IS right about Comic Sans, though. Maybe he’ll start a movement to improve typography in preschool classrooms across America!

Ya can’t make this stuff up, folks.

Watch Cooper (at age 3!) try to convince the internet that his dad loves Zapfino.

Agreed, you can’t make this stuff up.

The Origin: Neue Haas Grotesk

Font Bureau released the origin of now ubiquitous Helvetica.

Type designer Christian Schwartz has newly restored the original Neue Haas Grotesk in digital form.

Knowing Christian Schwartz, you know that this is a high quality digital type – ehem, I mean font – which included text and display cut, alternate glyph, small-caps, to name a few. All in glorious total 22 styles. Also talking about Christian Schwartz, read his post at ILT about why he started a type foundry.

Don’t know the story behind Neue Hass Grotesk/Helvetica debacle? Head over to the history section of this nicely done minisite.