On: Five minute guide to better typography

[brendonjohn]

Helvetica and you're done.

^ My one sentence guide to better typography.

[diggan → brendonjohn]

That's your guide to better typography for OSX users. Then we also have folks using Windows and Linux that doesn't ship with Helvetica. Worth knowing!

[wildrhythms → diggan]

I'm always sad to see people say things like "Helvetica and you're done!" There are so many beautiful different fonts to use... imagine if everything was Helvetica? Boring :(

[brendonjohn → wildrhythms]

Helvetica and its derivatives are beautiful, they're not boring.

[brendonjohn → diggan]

I should of said Helvetica-derivatives.

[pvorb → brendonjohn]

Using Helvetica doesn't magically increase readability.

[brendonjohn → pvorb]

That really depends on what you're starting with.

My one-liner didn't go into the care that this article went into, I couldn't do the topic justice.