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THE TYPEFACE THAT ATE THE WORLD
SOMETIMES BOLD AND ALWAYS A LITTLE GROTESQUE

Evgeny Morozov catches up with "Helvetica", a documentary film about the history of the near-ubiquitous typeface, and finds it to be a persuasive story in miniature about the globalisation of visual culture ...

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