Miss Eagle loves paper, loves printing, loves print, loves font. It is with great joy that she has discovered that this year is the 50th anniversay of the introduction of that famous and ubiquitous font, Helvetica. There is a movie. There is a blog.Miss Eagle is a would-be-if-she-could-be calligrapher and, since the introduction of the personal computer, has transferred this love affair to fonts. She loves fonts: fonts to suit the words, fonts to express a mood, fonts just to lie beautifully on the page. Be still, my beating heart!
One of the limitations of Blogger, is its ultra-limited choice of fonts. No Helvetica. Neither MS Word nor MS Publisher has Helvetica. To download it, it has to be purchased. So ubiquity doesn't travel free, more's the pity!
So Miss Eagle, who has a penchant for sans serif fonts, tends to prefer Trebuchet in Blogger. Where there is a wider choice, the equally ubiquitous Gill Sans in all its variety is a favourite.
The movie is not due in Melbourne until 21 July - the Kiwi cousins across the ditch are getting it first.
In the meantime, happy birthday Helvetica!
3 comments:
I am a font-a-holic and will download any for free including some wonderful Harry Potter and Sci-Fi ones. There is a font website but it isn't free so I don't visit anymore, it's too painful.
don't love printing since it is nearly midnight and I am in a house where a person is cleaning 4 rollers from a printer. The cleaning solution stinks and I fear (even further) brain damage.
My cousin is a professional book-designer. Those people can talk about fonts for HOURS.
Know what you mean, jahteh. Mmmmm, don't think I'd like the icky rollers either, goawayplease, but the printing trade fascinates me. But book design, eh? I'd be interested in that conversation with a good bottle of red.
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