…to a font, other than my beloved copperplate gothic and my Engravers MT. It has always pleased me that my my business card could be from a venerable law firm, were it not for the one word design. The two fonts used together are timeless, classic, and promote those ideals in my designs.

Helvetica reminds us that design is everywhere, and that everything you see when you go out was designed by someone. The impact that words have can be designed by their shape and size and thickness of line or point in the same way that a room can be designed.

I must confess that I have styled a room so that the spines of the books were aligned in a way that the titles complemented one another. I know, it’s part of the addiction, getting caught up in the details. I’m sure helvetica adorned quite a few of those books…