Helvetica

Helvetica is probably one of the most famous fonts around. It is considered one of the greatest fonts, especially in the sans-serif category. Hell, it is so famous they made a documentary about typefaces, and named it you guessed it, Helvetica . This shirt pays homage to this font:

It is a graphic depicting the various line weights of Helvetica. To be honest, what I love about Helvetica, is that using it over some other very similar fonts , is that it makes you an elitist. And who doesn’t want to be better than everyone else? Really.

Thank YOU Progresswear .

Headline, how I Love Thee

If there is one thing that I love about my job, it is the chance I have to work with fonts.

I am currently obsessed with the font Headline. Here’s a sample:

It makes me think of an old-timey newspaper. Which makes me think of His Girl Friday, which is a film I love. But I digress.

Headline was created by the people at HPLHS

You can get it FOR FREE here.

Lastly, in the grand tradition of this blog, here is a t-shirt which uses this font:

Thank YOU busted tees for using this awesome font