I have a soft spot for helvetica & the hyphen














In type news, helvetica is now 50! In honor of the first typeface acquired for MoMA's collection, the installation presents posters, signage, and other graphic material demonstrating the variety of uses and enduring beauty of this design classic.

Thousands of hyphens parish as English marches on. About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.

Sad-times for the hyphen & a celebration of helvetica. I am left feeling rather balanced.  ¶ 9:35 AM