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What other fonts go with Helvetica?

April 28th, 2010 No comments

When you become an entrepreneur and startup you’re always finding answers to problems or issues and not have to spend any money. Well, one of the issues surrounding your marketing is which fonts go well with one another? Sort of like which wine goes with what meat?

Here’s an expert typographer Indra Kupferschmid gives you the answer to what other fonts go with Helvetica.

History: Typesetting circa 1910 at the US Government printing office.

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Top 100 fonts of all time

April 8th, 2010 No comments

Here’s another list of fonts, this time a list of the top 100 fonts. You can’t  beat the info.

Top 100 Fonts Of All Time.

Check out the year each was created, fascinating. Here’s the list that comes with your Snow Leopard Mac.

1. Helvetica [1957 - Max Miedinger]

2. Garamond [1530 - Claude Garamond]

4. Bodoni [1790 - Giambattista Bodoni]

5. Futura [1927 - Paul Renner]

6. Times [1931 - Stanley Morison]

9. Gill Sans [1930 - Eric Gill]

11. Optima [1954 - Hermann Zapf]

16. Rockwell [1934 - Frank H. Pierpont]

24. Lucida [1985 - Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow]

26. Zapfino [1998 - Hermann Zapf]

33. Eurostile [1962 - Aldo Novarese]

38. Palatino [1950 - Hermann Zapf]

39. Baskerville [1754 - John Baskerville]

48. Cooper Black [1920 - Oswald B. Cooper]

60. Copperplate Gothic [1901 - Frederic W. Goudy]

64. News Gothic [1908 - Morris Fuller Benton]

66. Bernhard Modern [1937 - Lucian Bernhard]

100. Mistral [1953 - Roger Excoffon]

Would you agree?

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