Helvetica Documentary

Being, by nature, an artistic person, I have always been attracted to typeface -- especially that on my records and on the covers of books.  I recently started looking into begin a first edition book collection and have been looking at the differences between first edition covers and newer editions, noting especially the differences in the type face.  Most notably Truman Capote's first edition of "In Cold Blood" is drastically different from the current edition.  

The great thing about the documentary is the same thing that was so fun about going to Ken Perlin's lab.  It's always really fun to listen to people who are passionate and incredibly well-educated and knowledgeable about a field that is not often looked at.  The people in the Helvetica documentary was so passionate about something that most people never think about.  It gave so much more meaning to a font than most people would think about:  political meaning (as we saw from the article about Obama's use of Helvetic), tone meaning, message meaning, etc.  

The amount of emotion that the font caused people to have -- the graphic designers who held to the font as the "ultimate," the "ideal," or those that passionately hated it, feeling as though it was boring, horribly designed -- was fascinating to watch.