Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be

[bborud]

Ever since seeing Sans Bullshit Sans (http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/) I've always wanted to pull a font-related prank at the company where I work.

[21]

Needs a blockchain & co update

[metaphor]

For those of us outside the graphic design bubble, the author's top-level post[1] briefly explaining his madness.

[1] http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/

[Cpoll]

> The installation ended up being the most devious part of the prank in the end, since it would install on the system it makes it really difficult for anyone to understand why everything looks just that little bit wrong.

This should be made a felony.

[phakding]

I am a font snob and was about to leave a strongly worded comment for suggesting this font. Your comment saved me for making a fool of myself.

[zanchey]

If you liked that, you'll love Comic Papyrus!

http://www.barthandco.com/blog.php?i=5

[mullikine]

I want to remove my eyes now

[jdironman]

Thanks, I hate it.

[GW150914]

The only font made under a DARPA contract to sap the will to live from enemy graphic designers.

[finaliteration]

Soon to be found on passive aggressive notes from office managers everywhere.

[blurbleblurble]

I love it

[meanmrmustard92]

kill it with fire.

[pfdietz]

I always spell it "keming".

[Stratoscope]

Fans of typographic humor may enjoy Liz Crain's ceramic work. One of her specialties is ceramic pieces that look like old rusted metal cans. And her husband is a retired typesetter, so the cans often feature typographic themes.

After buying her Interrobang piece a while back, we asked her to make a Keming can to go with it. Here they are together:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb/A

I love the way she made it so you can see both the "m" and the "rn".

http://lizcrainceramics.com/

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https://old.reddit.com/r/keming/

[frabert]

That's because of bad keming

[wjp3]

Best comnet ever.

[Sharlin]

Hellvetica.

[mockingbirdy]

I like how it makes me angry. Finally feeling something again.

Thank you for making this world a better place.

[yay_cloud2]

I love how a font can inspire this kind of deep, primal anger. Like smelling salts for the feels.

[raimue]

At first I was not sure whether the web font was maybe not properly loading.

[jerrre]

Strange how the italic version seems much less bad.

[sdx23]

less bad? To me it's awful with the different thicknesses (not sure, perhaps something is broken with how it's rendered here).

https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png

[shdon]

This is the kind of thing I'd put in a CSS stylesheet on April Fools Day.

[rangibaby]

Oh god

Serious: Neue Haas Grotesk is Helvetica the way it is supposed to be: http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/

[imron]

The quick brown fox.

[sanlyx]

Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack

[jjgod]

> This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source font editor.

Pretty sure the license won’t allow you to do any modification to the font installed on your system.

[Crespyl]

I suspect this might qualify as a work of satire or parody.

[BonesJustice]

heh, I’ve seen so many layout and rendering issues with custom fonts in the browser, I honestly couldn’t tell whether this was a joke or a glitch ;)

[brennebeck]

To quote Slipknot: “I push my fingers into my eyes It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache”

[adrianN]

This seems to be the font that Rational DOORS uses. Also Rational ClearQuest, but only in IE.

[Tloewald]

Wait, isn't that just Arial?

[cylinder714]

I must inform the OpenBSD team!

[7six]

Omg kerning

[VikingCoder]

It's unbearable.

[Exuma]

This makes my anxiety so bad