20 Piping Hot Helvetica Based Typographic Posters
posted on 20th July 2010 by Paul Maloney with the tags: "Helvetica", "Posters", "Typography" .
Helvetica is one of the worlds most popular and most used typefaces, the original Sans Serif font is 53 years young, whilst the Cyrillic version was released in 1970, Rounded in 1978 and Neue in 1983.
The typeface is so popular, it is used in a number of big companies brand identity, for example; American Airlines, Toyota, BMW, and Microsoft.
In this showcase I have listed some fantastic Helvetica posters that really do the typeface some justice. If you’re not a fan of the font, these fantastic pieces may just make you warm to it a little.
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Robert 20 Jul 2010
Such a great post! These are really good examples of how to use it.
Paul 20 Jul 2010
Thanks Robert!
I really enjoyed writing this one up, there are so many fantastic examples of this font “in the field.”
Kevin Walsh 20 Jul 2010
Really inspiring post.
Thank you so much.
Junior 21 Jul 2010
Great collection. Thanks for sharing.
Alexey 22 Jul 2010
Did you know that you can put whatever you want in the poster and it would still look bad in Comic Sans?
Michael 8 Aug 2010
Awesome choice of examples, thanks!
Puneet 10 Aug 2010
Nice job
Jen 7 Nov 2010
Another Helvetica poster for your collection: http://www.eugenelvovsky.com/typeis/0201.html
Kris 23 Feb 2011
What about Günter Gerhard Lange? Miedinger just redraw an old typeface. And Frutiger did a better job with Univers anyway. Though Helvetica Neue is pretty neat. I think the main popularity comes from the fact that it’s Switzerland’s official typeface and due to the spread of Swiss/international style it gained so much popularity.
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