Hope somebody can help me with Helvetica font

SlammedNiss · Post by **SlammedNiss** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:35 am

I recently lost everything on my c: drive to a virus. I've been working on a school project, and the project was in Helvetica Bold. I know many will consider this warez, but I've looked everywhere on my backup disks, and cannot find this font anyplace at all.

Can somebody please check and see if they have it and send it to me? I would be very much appreciated...

TIA

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:23 am

Don't have but Google is your friend

SlammedNiss · Post by **SlammedNiss** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:48 pm

perry wrote:Don't have but Google is your friend

I've googled it already.. I dont want to spend $30 on a font I need for just a school project..

Thanks though..

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:58 pm

Ha - from the searches I performed, $30 is a damn good deal. I found one site that said it was $499.00 for the Helvetica package. That's ridiculous.

I don't have it either, but I'm sure you could probably find a pretty decent free clone of it if you look hard enough.

Post by **pixel** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:12 pm

I currently have 1900ish fonts. It pays to share a computer with a graphic designer!

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:35 pm

That it does. Not only is it convenient, because you have all the fonts at your fingertips, but, if the graphic designer is any good, s/he can tell you strictly by looking at a font which one it is. Whenever I have problems figuring out what a font is, I ask my favorite graphic designer, and he always knows right away.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:27 pm

in the biz world all you need is Arial or Times

all these other fonts are useless. useless I SAY!

Post by **pixel** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:34 pm

Random_Troll wrote:in the biz world all you need is Arial or Times all these other fonts are useless. useless I SAY!

I HATE Times New Roman!!!! That and Comic Sans. People think that they can use these two fonts for everything. Doesn't Windows come with more fonts than these two?

greay · Post by **greay** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:29 pm

Has anybody else noticed that free fonts are all crap? On that note, has anybody found a good source of free fonts? I understand that to design a quality font is a hell of a lot more work than most people realize; nevertheless I can't justify paying $500 for a font.

Oh, and by "good" I also mean not something with a name like "Acid Reflux" or "Cenobite" or "Splatz". Something you can actually use.

perry · Post by **perry** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:14 pm

Free fonts are actually usually good, I've always used free font's and no probs....

greay · Post by **greay** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:32 pm

Okay, I wasn't being entirely fair

I lied when I said that free fonts are all crap. I know a lot of work goes into them, and plenty of them are "pretty" or "cool"... But it's really hard to find a really usable font. Take the fonts on the #1 google result for "free fonts", e.g. - http://www.1001freefonts.com

Out of the 9 pages of fonts for A, the only really usable ones are Angleterre Book, and Arborocrest. And that's just with a cursory view; I don't know how well they'd stand up to actually reading a full page (or more)

I'm looking for (well, was looking for) fonts that you could actually print pages of text in; not fonts that make a title look cool.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:19 pm

Actually, if you have Windows installed, you already have a kind-of Helvetica font: Arial

The problem is that Arial looks like utter crap, of course. It is supposed to look like Helvetica, but doesn't.

Basically, you have (or had, when all this fonts-on-computers stuff was first happening) four main fonts in common use: Helvetica, Times / Times Roman, Courier and Symbol. Microsoft ships Windows with look-alikes for these fonts: Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New and Symbol. Arial was based on a font called Grotesque, modified to have the same proportions as Helvetica, but it really looks nothing like it.

I do have a free Helvetica font on my system, but it's in Adobe Type 1 format, which you can't normally use on Windows. And it has a stupid filename (like a010013l, or one of twenty equally stupidly named files), so I can't find it anyway.

I use Bitstream's Vera fonts on my system normally, and they work just fine for print stuff too. They're free (they're actually included with most modern Linux distributions), so you can use them as you wish. There are a number of other decent free fonts, but they're a little difficult to find.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:36 am

Go out and by a font disc package for $10

I got one a long time ago from a fish and chip shop

Has fonts, clip art, sounds, midi's. You know, that kinda crap

CoasterKing · Post by **CoasterKing** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:39 am

perry wrote:Free fonts are actually usually good, I've always used free font's and no probs....

Same here. I've never had to buy fonts as there are hundreds of fantastic free ones.

Post by **pixel** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:43 am

actually, my favorite font is Arial Black smooshed together a bit

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:36 pm

10pt courier or system = leet

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:35 pm

Nyarlathotep wrote:10pt courier or system = leet

I always use Courier or system in AIM

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:39 pm

I use Verdana a lot

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:48 pm

Copperplate Gothic is one of my favorites. Baker Signet is another great one. They are obviously not meant for printing an entire page or anything, but they are nice looking fonts. Arial is a pretty nice font for regular use, but Avalon and Architect are slightly nicer spins on that font (which, as BA already said, is a spin on Helvetica).

Aren't the Swiss/Switzerland, etc. fonts basically the same as Helvetica?

df0notfound · Post by **df0notfound** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:59 pm

Requesting fonts is warez, actually requesting fonts is even worse than going "someone send me sonic adventure" because making fonts is something you have to study for years and years to get any good at and theyre created by very few ARTISTS who don't get paid much at all AND ?30 or whatever IS A FUCKING BARGAIN. You are complete and utter scum to steal from people like this. I hope you fail your stupid school project you don't deserve to pass it.