But there were a couple of niggles which I always hated about it, chief of which was its upper case 'R' with its odd, wobbly little foot at the end of the leg. Pedantic as I can be, this alone would often be enough for me to rule it out. So imagine my surprise at the recent overhaul of Helvetica by Montype, the first since 1982, and the discovery that this new version contains alternate glyphs for many characters. Not least that pesky upper case 'R'! There's also a rather lovely alternate '1' which has more than a touch of that other classic Franklin Gothic about it.
I feel somewhat vindicated, although it is still an extra glyph and not the default so I can't see myself manually editing large amounts of text. However, no longer will Helvetica make me squirm when there's an upper case 'R'… well, in headlines at least!
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