Following a refresh of their site, in which the BBC has switched fonts from Verdana to Helvetica Neue on Macs – which looks very nice – and Arial on PCs – which obviously doesn’t look quite as nice, they’ve also published quite an interesting article on the whole question of ‘do typefaces really matter?’ As designers we’d admit we have a somewhat biased, perhaps even bordering on an OCD obsession with type, but appreciate not everyone feels the quite same. The article provides a reasonable view of both perspectives and is worth a read, even if one side of the 
argument is clearly wrong.
Category: typography
Style magazine ‘Wallpaper’ commissioned design studio ‘Julia’ to create this stylish new font for their May issue about Brazil. Taking their cues from Brazilian architecture, they created the elegant ‘Copan’ – a geometrically precise but fluid title font in two sizes. ‘Initially we only knew what we didn’t want it to look like – there are good cliches and bad cliches about Brazil,’ says designer
Hugo Timm. ‘one of the prominent characteristics of Brazilian typography – as opposed to work from the UK or France – is that it’s quite informal and vernacular.’
http://www.wallpaper.com/art/Copan-font-by-Julia/4517
