{"id":2608,"date":"2010-07-08T20:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2010-07-08T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:58:39","slug":"the-helvetica-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/the-helvetica-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Helvetica Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativereview.co.uk\/cr-blog\/2010\/july\/the-helvetica-killer\">Bruno Maag<\/a> on Helvetica and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daltonmaag.com\/browse\/fonts\/dama\/aktivgrotesk\/\">Aktiv Grotesk<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/07\/08\/bruno-maag\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.creativereview.co.uk\/cr-blog\/2010\/july\/the-helvetica-killer\"><p>I can appreciate why a lot of designers like Helvetica compared to Univers&mdash;Univers has a starkness about it, it&rsquo;s cold. Maybe because of the antique-ness of Helvetica it has a certain charm that Univers lacks and at the same time has this neutrality, so I can see why people go for it, but if you start analysing it and going into the nitty gritty it is quite a horrendous font.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Maag on Helvetica and his Aktiv Grotesk (via John Gruber): I can appreciate why a lot of designers like Helvetica compared to Univers&mdash;Univers has a starkness about it, it&rsquo;s cold. Maybe because of the antique-ness of Helvetica it has a certain charm that Univers lacks and at the same time has this neutrality, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}