{"id":16616,"date":"2014-06-03T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/despite-its-grand-reputation-helvetica-cant-do\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:08:43","slug":"despite-its-grand-reputation-helvetica-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/despite-its-grand-reputation-helvetica-cant-do\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Despite its grand reputation, Helvetica can\u2019t do everything. It works well in big sizes, but it can be really weak in small sizes. Shapes like \u2018C\u2019 and \u2018S\u2019 curl back into themselves, leaving tight \u201capertures\u201d&ndash;the channels of white between a letter\u2019s interior and exterior. So each shape halts the eye again and again, rather than ushering it along the line. The lowercase \u2018e,&rsquo; the most common letter in English and many other languages, takes an especially unobliging form. These and other letters can be a pixel away from being some other letter, and we\u2019re left to deal with flickers of doubt as we read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3031432\/why-apples-new-font-wont-work-on-your-desktop?partner=rss\">Why Apple&rsquo;s New Font Won&rsquo;t Work On Your Desktop | Co.Design | business   design<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its grand reputation, Helvetica can\u2019t do everything. It works well in big sizes, but it can be really weak in small sizes. Shapes like \u2018C\u2019 and \u2018S\u2019 curl back into themselves, leaving tight \u201capertures\u201d&ndash;the channels of white between a letter\u2019s interior and exterior. So each shape halts the eye again and again, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4k0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}