Helvetica: the movie

I was surprised when we watched Helvetica the movie because I really learned new things about an extremly popular font. I never realized that Helvetica was used so often and on so many recognizable logos, signs, and paperwork. It's interesting to me that such a plain and simple typeface became so well known and is still used after many many years. I'm not sure that if someone designed the font of Helvetica today that it would be quite as popular.