Tonight I watched the documentary film "Helvetica," and it turned out to be a well-filmed and intriguing piece. As I watched I was reminded of the days when I used to do more tangible work with fonts - desktop publishing, working on a college newspaper at the University of Puget Sound and then writing for newspapers in the 1990s. When I left the world of physical print work in 1994, I stopped playing with fonts and using many of my old friends like Palatino, Garamond and Bookman. On the Web, most fonts are based on Arial or Verdana.
One interesting although not surprising note about the Helvetica movie is the number of Mac users among the many typographical designers interviewed for the film. It has always been that way. When design matters, users choose Macs.
