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brendonjohn | 8 years ago

Helvetica and you're done.

^ My one sentence guide to better typography.

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diggan|8 years ago

That's your guide to better typography for OSX users. Then we also have folks using Windows and Linux that doesn't ship with Helvetica. Worth knowing!

wildrhythms|8 years ago

I'm always sad to see people say things like "Helvetica and you're done!" There are so many beautiful different fonts to use... imagine if everything was Helvetica? Boring :(

brendonjohn|8 years ago

I should of said Helvetica-derivatives.

pvorb|8 years ago

Using Helvetica doesn't magically increase readability.

brendonjohn|8 years ago

That really depends on what you're starting with.

My one-liner didn't go into the care that this article went into, I couldn't do the topic justice.