Helvetica™ is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. The original typeface was called Haas Grotesk, and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Switzerland. In 1960 […]
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Do you know that the font Scala was launched more than 20 years ago on 17th Nov 1989? In 1991 it was released as FF Scala, FontShop’s first serious text typeface and has since been used widely throughout the world. According to the Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor, Scala is named after the Teatro alla […]
Read moreFB Agenda – recommended for Newspaper, Magazine, Web and Corporate use Designed by Greg Thompson, Agenda offers a high-style alternative to the contemporary Swiss sans. Agenda is a fresh humanist sanserif inspired by Edward Johnston’s magnificent London Underground face, drawn in 1916. Italics in particular are vital styles of their own, forming interesting alternatives to […]
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