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Helvetica

We mentioned it Helvetica the movie last month, and today’s NY Sun review has further peaked my interest in seeing this.

After watching “Helvetica,” you’ll never look at the world in the same way again. That’s because you’ll suddenly start noticing what this smart, breezy documentary about the font abundantly illustrates: Helvetica is everywhere.

What keeps this interesting is the eclectic array of designers who show up to argue for and against the font. There is a procession of silver-haired Swiss aesthetes holding forth on behalf of Helvetica’s impeccable negative spaces (the “white space” that occupies the inside of the letter “a” like a hole in a doughnut, for instance), men whose wisdom is challenged by latter-day upstarts and their insouciant “post-modernism.”

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