ArikB
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Type designers are awesome, look at how much one man can say about a font.
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Raincutter
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lol so much hatred for an innocent font. 
I must say I never used Helvetica but now I have to look at it and what’s that that make this man hate it so much. 
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Pixelcloth
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I know everybody has his wright to an opinion but I think this is pointless.
Why should users simply forget about Helvetica and go to his Aktiv Grotesk or Univers?
I think a designer choses his font not by it’s name, he choses it by how it looks and how much can that font help him in his work.
Besides that i think Bruno Maag is a very smart man. Thanks for the link Arik.
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EmeraldArt
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Fantastic interview. It was quite informative and entertaining too. Thanks for the link Arik.
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goldenbug
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For useful link, thank you.
Font usage and selection matters are really important. This issue actually determine “the Helvetica” thing.
“I think a designer choses his font not by it’s name…” said @pixelcloth, of course it is true. However, this interview made me think about CSS3 and new font-face thing. I think – I’m afraid- font usage will be worse than currently situation on the Internet. Because font selection and usage process is really really easy right now.
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goldenbug
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For useful link, thank you.
Font usage and selection matters are really important. This issue actually determine “the Helvetica” thing.
“I think a designer choses his font not by it’s name…” said @pixelcloth, of course it is true. However, this interview made me think about CSS3 and new font-face thing. I think – I’m afraid- font usage will be worse than currently situation on the Internet. Because font selection and usage process is really really easy right now.
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Daniel_R
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didnt know they do criticism around fonts…type designers are awesome indeed!
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Motionreactor
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Sounds like design snobbery to me. He has some good points, but really there are greater design issues in circulation than the abuse of Helvetica.
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