Helvetica’s Evil Twin, Hellvetica, Will Haunt Your Nightmares

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Posted by BeauHD on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:30PM from the just-in-time-for-Halloween dept.

Freshly Exhumed shares a report from Fast Company: Hold your favorite graphic design tome close. We now know what the classic typeface Helvetica would look like if it came from the underworld. Yes, it will keep type enthusiasts up at night. The design darling Helvetica — that ubiquitous sans-serif typeface developed by Max Miedinger in 1957, representative of the crisp Swiss design aesthetic of that period, and star of its own documentary by the same name — has made a deal with the kerning devil. The results aren’t pretty. They’re not meant to be.

Zack Roif and Matthew Woodward, both associate creative directors at the international advertising agency R/GA, have released a new typeface available free to download, Hellvetica, and it will make all your worst kerning nightmares come true. While each character has the same form as the classic typeface it’s riffing on, Hellvetica utilizes inconsistent, variable spacing between each letterform to give an overall effect that something has gone terribly astray. Nope, that wasn’t a mistake. You might just say it was intentionally erroneous. The project is a study in playfulness and rule-breaking, “an exercise in going against the ‘designer instincts’ to fix up that awful kerning. Hundred percent break the rules,” says Woodward. “Don’t listen to your gut. Forget your training… and make that logo kern in hell!”

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Nearly as bad as Comic Sans (Score:2)
by Vihai ( 668734 ) writes:
…but still not quite there…
Lots of other examples (Score:3)
by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes: <martin.espinoza@gmail.com> on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:38PM (#59368490) Homepage Journal
If you just go looking for fonts on the internets you’ll find lots of fonts with terrible kerning. No need to do it on purpose.
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True Type ? no thanks (Score:2)
by johnjones ( 14274 ) writes:
what are they thinking releasing a true type font ?
no way I’m using that
Is there anything sadder.. (Score:2)
by Daemonik ( 171801 ) writes:
..than a typeface nerd? It’s like collecting vintage 50’s doorknobs, only really interesting to someone else on the same journey…
Finally, a Helvetica font with readable kerning. (Score:2)
by dgatwood ( 11270 ) writes:
Notice the “rn” in “Burn”. Notice that you can tell that the word is not “bum”. That makes this, accidentally, the single most readable Helvetica variant to date.
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  by dgatwood ( 11270 ) writes:
  Oops. My bad. The word was “kern”. Notice it does not look like “kem”. No, wait…. Eh. Whatever.

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Helvetica’s Evil Twin, Hellvetica, Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Nearly as bad as Comic Sans (Score:2)

Lots of other examples (Score:3)

True Type ? no thanks (Score:2)

Is there anything sadder.. (Score:2)

Finally, a Helvetica font with readable kerning. (Score:2)

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