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Helvetidoodle in the blogs!

Edward Townend — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:55:40 +0000

I hate to blab on about Helvetidoodle, but this is too funny – some Japanese blog has picked up on the similarities between Helvetidoodle and Helvetica and written what seems to be (Google translate isn’t ace) a quite praising comparison:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.nutspress.com/2009/12/15/helvetica-and-helvetidoodle/&ei=GfZ1S_fqBoTw0wSM5sWmCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBoQ7gEwBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhelvetidoodle%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DsLR

While we’re looking at other blogs, I was pleased to see my font got chosen for Font Friday in December at Poppytalk:

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/12/font-friday.html

I don’t want to seem vain, but this is fascinating!

Helvetidoodle on tour

Edward Townend — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:07:30 +0000

Quite amusingly, I recently received an email from an art student in San Francisco who wanted to tell me she’s using my typeface in a project for the San Francisco Art Institute. You can see how she and her fellow student used it at their website: www.loppedoff.com (It’s probably not really safe for work).

I particularly like the extremely tight cropping of the text, while still retaining readability, to represent the ‘lopped off’ theme. This is exactly the way I envisioned the typeface being used, with headers in Helvetidoodle and body text in Helvetica so as not to look too busy.

Helvetidoodle passes 20,000 downloads

Edward Townend — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:07:57 +0000

The other day I noticed on my dafont.com profile that Helvetidoodle has passed the 20,000 downloads milestone, all within two months of it being released! This is way more than I ever expected to get – and I’m delighted with the ways it’s already been used by those out there. It’s even earned me 99p so far from a donation!

Helvetidoodle at dafont.com: http://www.dafont.com/helvetidoodle-by-ed-t.font