In Brief
Helvetica Gets Its First Redesign in Three Decades
The font has been the subject of a feature-length documentary and 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Monotype
Art
The Shazam for Typefaces Will Tell You If That's Helvetica or Futura
The mobile app WhatTheFont, recently revamped with machine learning, claims to correctly identify typefaces encountered IRL 90% of the time.
Art
After Three Decades of Obscurity, Helvetica's Successor Reemerges
When Haas Unica was introduced in 1980, it was intended as an illustrious successor to the highly popular sans-serif Helvetica.