Helvetica, A Story

This is an animation done using only the letters from the Helvetica and Arial. It was done for my NMD 204 class in Adobe After Effects. Enjoy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Helvetica
• Arial
• animation
• after
• effects
• text
• font
• create
• student
• college
• NMD204
• new
• media
• adobe
• aftereffects
• film
• tut

[splackpak]

i cannot remember the name of the song... rrrrr... help!

[JellyMel]

The song in the video is performed by my fathers band (flyer) but I believe it sounds much like a song by the buckinghams which it could be a cover of.

[markpemble]

They have classes for after effects? What a waste of time.

All you have to do is read the manual, play around and you've got it.

[JellyMel]

Thats a pretty ignorant statement. Classes teach theory and design as well as technical.

You must not be familiar with the multimedia education system in college.

[jfedjrock]

awsome? awesome!

[JellyMel]

haha I know....I need to find some time to fix that and re render the video!

[DoodiePunk]

Very over-estimating Helvetica. Arial is definitely better, as it has wider coverage of Unicode :)

[DoodiePunk]

Arial spacing is different. When I compared both Arial & Helvetica, I was able to see a difference.

[philoposos]

Those who didn't like this video are sure to be Arial lovers... those bastards!

[Watcher3223]

Microsoft chose arial as a cheap alternative as MS didn't want to pay extra to Linotype for helvetica.

Arial is owned by Monotype.

[Watcher3223]

Well, arial is a standardized font for the web, which is one reason why it's widespread on the web.

One benefit of arial is its ease of readability at smaller font sizes on a monitor display. It's good functionally, but it's not so great in terms of design.

In summary, if you want to make type that looks good: consider using helvetica. If you just need it to be read easily on a computer display in low resolutions or small sizes, arial might be better.

[tonyTvT]

I hate Arial cos it's from copycats. I like it in some ways tho, because of its over-widespread-ness. Google and YouTube are successful examples of using Arial all over the sites to make it look constant over different platforms

[brotroller]

Oh, if you want it to be possessive,

It's just I-T-S,

But if it's supposed to be a contraction

Then it's I-T-apostrophe-S.

Scalawag.

(although nice animation)

[italotter]

Then DEATH to Ariel!! That pesky MS gets everywhere!! Bring on the Helvetica, may it rise to it's heights of beauty and purity!

[MaineEPSCoR]

Microsoft introduced Ariel I do believe

[italotter]

So who created Ariel then?? the bastards!!