ispano_imdb Review of Helvetica

Helvetica (2007)

If your friend said they enjoyed watching this with you. They're lying.

[7/10 · 4 October 2015]

I remember watching this back in 2007 and am pleasantly surprised how relevant it is with respect to the font explosion that's been happening due to the transition to e-commerce. I pleasantly respect the fact that Apple has chosen Helvetica as the font to define their product line. With the advent of Google's Material Design and the slew of web-fonts available from different foundries, it's good to see fonts usher in an age of web professionalism. This film has also helped show validity to this documentary medium. Many more titles like Linotype have helped to bring light to subject material of similar interest. The reviews on here, for all practical purposes, sum up what you'd expect to see from a film about Helvetica. Period.