Matt Robinson compares eight fonts, including Helvetica and Cooper Black, to determine which produces the most characters per ballpoint pen.
A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were [...]

A handy quick reference graphic depicting key differences between the Arial and Helvetica fonts.

To get your brains ticking over again after the holiday weekend, take the quiz, “So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?”, well known logos and trademarks presented in both Arial and Helvetica, can you tell them apart?
My score was 19/20, I messed up with one of the italic styled logos.

Helvetica is “dogshit”? I can hardly agree with that. Further, I didn’t realise Helvetica was “available on all computers”, I wonder if the article refers to Arial instead, which would still be available on most Windows computers, which are certainly widespread.
As a text typeface Helvetica is an awkward creature. It is only because it is [...]

Even Mircosoft uses Helvetica.
So how about shipping it with your operating systems and making it render properly on Window’s machines at the same time?

There’s been some comment and email discussion about the use of the Helvetica font here as a result of a couple of references I’ve made to it recently.
One correspondent however asked if Arial, a relatively similar looking font, which is used in a number of Microsoft applications for example, was a “rip-off” of Helvetica.
The [...]

And so it should be.

I didn’t know that the Helvetica font has been plotting world domination…
I came to an alarming discovery: in the 7 years since the BBC first mentioned the dangers of Helvetica – which it dismissed as a “very, very rare occurence”-, the menace has made the leap from calcium atoms and humans to the Web itself. [...]

Design Highlights of 2008 as put together by Creativity Online.
Featured on the list, Flywire from Nike, the Helvetica film, (good to see Helv get a mention in some way) the iPhone (who could have guessed) and even (or should that be, of course) Barack Obama, who makes the cut for his “entire campaign, each and [...]

A pen that produces handwriting in Helvetica? Apparently so, even if it only seems to work for some people…
Ahhhh… technology. The geniuses at Plexifilm have spent the past two years developing a Sharpie pen that actually writes in Helvetica! This pen is so experimental that it’s priceless… literally.