Check out [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “It’s actually only “Helvetica” if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it “sparkling Arial””
Too much font goodness:
- [WayBack] Steve on Twitter: “I import my Helvetica. Get it delivered via Courier.”
- [WayBack] Dr Rachel Franks on: “I wanted to laugh at this Tweet but unfortunately I’m Comic Sans at the moment …”
- [WayBack] Neil Yamit on Twitter: “Does this apply to Georgia, too? If it’s not from Georgia (the country), we refer to it as “thicc Times””
- [WayBack] Intactive on Twitter: “My goldfish is suffocating. It’s Gill Sans.”
- [WayBack] 🎄🎁🎅🏿 Charlie Galvin 🗽🌊 on Twitter: “People who make jokes like this may find a (MS) Trebuchet aimed at them. If they aren’t imprisoned for a Century.”
- [WayBack] Simon Gerathy on Twitter: “The New Roman worshipped serifs. The Helveticans didn’t buy into that projection and ordered the New Roman lashed: “10 Times New Roman””
- [WayBack] Victor Martinez on Twitter：”I developed a grunged one called Hellvetica… the Helvetica that came from hell”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “That just sounds like Arial again.”
- [WayBack] Darrell W. Royter on Twitter: “Thank goodness Twitter can bring people together to share typeface jokes. Imagine if you had to wait for them by courier.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “I agree. If you had to wait, they wouldn’t have nearly the same impact.”
- [WayBack] Daryl Sng on Twitter: “Are you saying the humour is so bad that the thread is sans comic?”
- [WayBack] isral Duke on Twitter: “The baseline of this joke is a slab of hot metal.”
- [WayBack] Mark Astle on Twitter: “If only there were other Swiss typefaces in the Univers…”
- [WayBack] Douglas King on Twitter: “As a former sommelier and current technologist, I can say the D.O.C.G. for fonts is very protective.”
- [WayBack] Doug Lindsay on Twitter: “Plus, it’s actually spelled “Helutica” it’s just that the “u’s” were carved to look like “v’s” 🥛🍪😧😌🎄”
- [WayBack] Gary Hudson on Twitter：”What Univers are you living in?”
- [WayBack] schrepfler on Twitter: “It’s only Arial if it come from “under the sea” 🧜♀️”
- [WayBack] James Tiberius Shirtless Kirk 🚀 on Twitter: “I prefer using Omar Serif to bridge the gap.”
- [WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “Sheesh… as many Arial jokes as stars in the Univers. In the Futura, read the other posts to avoid the Myriad of repeats, and we can have a Slate if fresh puns. 😉”
- [WayBack] Jared Spool on Twitter: “In authentic Helvetica, you can taste the European soil. And a hint of socks.”
- [WayBack] Andrew on Twitter: “Papyrus is the worst fruit sparkling juice drink from Egypt.”
- [WayBack] Carol Sabik-Jaffe on Twitter: “Oh come on. I shot the serif.”
- [WayBack] Patrick John Gillam on Twitter: “The originating tweet is brilliant, but the replies, including this one, are a font of strained dad jokes.”
- [WayBack] Rob on Twitter: “As Bart Simpson would say, “Ay Caranda!””
- [WayBack] Sarah Clark on Twitter：”Microsoft’s self driving car won’t start moving until you Segoe”
- [WayBack] Sara S. on Twitter: “Uh, technically it’s “Arial’s monster””
- [WayBack] Anna on Twitter: “Methode Helvetique is also allowable.”
- [WayBack] cumberickman on Twitter: “This is an Optima(l) tweet.”
- [WayBack] Scott Delinger Twitterissä: “Kern it off. You are a Font of Trouble.”
- [WayBack] The Dadbodbarian on Twitter: “Got it, Helvetica is from eastern Switzerland.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “I was laughing so hard I fell and had a Fraktur.”
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter: “Bold of you to underscore your attempt.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter: “It felt justified.… “
- [WayBack] Pavel A. Samsonov on Twitter：”Next time, start with a more oblique hint and track the reaction of your readers.”
- [WayBack] Maxim Raginsky 👓☕️🥃 on Twitter：”But that would interfere with my original indent!”
- [WayBack] Kim Brill on Twitter: “The typeface jokes made my holiday.
Seriously.
Signed,
Graphic Designer who Worships Herb Lubalin, an Avant Garde Typographer.” - [WayBack] Stephen Mitchell: “Sans Comic”
- [WayBack] Emile van Raaij on Twitter: “Sounds like a line from a Quentin Palatino movie.… “
- [WayBack] Akash Sahu on Twitter: “If the handwriting is unclear Please adjust the Arial”
- [WayBack] Jay Zalowitz on Twitter：”This is a really narrow view of Arial”
- [WayBack] Heelontheshovel on Twitter: “What a character.”
- [WayBack] Disoptimist Twitterissä: ”
“Avant Guard you make me hard but like
Helvetica you’ve been played.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I’ll mock it up, show you what I got”” - [WayBack] Jessica Burns on Twitter: “@lilolov3 Imagine if this was the topic of the next font documentary 😂”
- [WayBack] Jamie Summers ( aka Sister Chava Kiki) on Twitter: “But Alte Haas Grotesk!”
- [WayBack] Rolf Pendall Twitter वर: “True typophiliac? Take a look at this book:”
- [WayBack] as in queen by Leda Black | Blurb Books (image below)
- [WayBack] just Phil on Twitter: “No more font jokes = sans Comic.”
- [WayBack] Thorin Jacobs Twitter: “This is why it’s absolutely critical to keep Calcium out of Europe.”
- [WayBack] Ralph M. Prescott on Twitter: “Stop! I kern only take so many…”
- [WayBack] Ahmed Shalaby on Twitter: “Fontastic tweet!”
- [WayBack] Smockey the Bear on Twitter: “Wingding clan is for the children”
- [WayBack] Paul Whitelam on Twitter: “A myriad of reasons to like this🤓👍”
- [WayBack] Chizzy Ndukwe N on Twitter: “Well, I prefer a visiting virtual web locations that give me the sense of breathing Oxygen. The serifs kept me from non-web places like Helvetica”
- [WayBack] Emily Hiestand on Twitter: “Ha! Helvetica is an elegant and enduring font, but is it really the Futura?”
- [WayBack] J on Twitter: “Best teeet in the Univers”
–jeroen
