After seeing "Helvetica," you might never look around city streets the same way again. The documentary, directed by Gary Hustwit (producer of the award-winning Wilco documentary, "I'm Trying to Break ...

Helvetica, a film about the life of a typeface so familiar to us, demands we take a second look at how we see words everyday. It will be screened during the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) ...

The typeface that defined high modernity and thrives today as something "at once populist and authoritarian," according to graphic designer Steven McCarthy, is getting its own cinematic biography.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007 ...

With beautiful cinematography, a kickass soundtrack, and one delightfully quotable interview after another, this little doc about a font is truly a work of art. Dedicated to Helvetica, the world's ...

Editor’s Note: Some of the logos in the gallery that accompanies this story did not represent the Helvetica typeface. The gallery has been edited to reflect that. In this way, the Helvetica font has ...