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Everything about Helvetica is repellant: from its uptight aura to its smug, splendid isolation. How it persists in the face of such brilliant alternatives as Frutiger and Syntax defies logic. 
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Scoop.it!
![We Don't Come to BURY Helvetica But To PRAISE It [video] | Must Design | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/OjNcLR0ILhEihXkLKXdSBTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
This is a great video by Objectified's (another great video) Director Gary Hustwit. The fact we CAN do something doesn't mean doing it is the right thing to do. This is so true with type.
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Here Smashing Magazine's Alastair Johnston explains, in great detail, why Helvitica (and it's Microsoft knockoff Arial) is a hard to read font matter what pretty pictures a designer tries to paint with it.
See yesterday's post about the movie Helvitica for the PRAISE veiew;
http://sco.lt/8UvgiP