Helvetica Forever: Story of a Typeface frigginmagic Produced by Rudy VanderLans and

Produced by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko

Yet two of his lesser-known type designs

the last one measuring only a few millimeters high

Strikethrough charts a typographic chant of resistance across more than a century of protest graphics—from nineteenth-century antislavery broadsides to the colorful posters of the Paris 1968 uprising

did she come through for us

Helvetica Forever: Story of a Typeface frigginmagic Produced by Rudy VanderLans andDesigned in 1957, Helvetica is an icon of Swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of expressivitya quality for which it is both criticized and admired. This polarization has helped to gain it unparalleled notoriety. This book retraces Helveticas first fifty years, compares it to the well known sans serif