stainlessvision

My old 4th generation 20GB iPod succumbed to battery death recently, meaning either a replacement battery, or a whole shiny new iPod; I chose the latter, mainly for capacity and gapless playback. It was a hard decision to make, I love my old iPod and the new ones seemed all a bit too 'Bling'.

Anyway, decision made, at the online store I'm presented with the option of an inscription again. Last time I went for a quote from Arthur C. Clarke's 2001; 'oh my God - it's full of stars', I needed a worthy successor! After looking through Blade Runner quotes for about half an hour, and not finding one that 'fit', I started looking at formatting and typography options... maybe I could get an interesting glyph? It's at this point I questioned the typeface being used; lo and behold, it's the ubiquitous Helvetica*!

Turns out it's Helvetica Light, about 11 point... I couldn't resist, here's the result:

*It's strange that they've chosen this, as Apple use Myraid for their branding, and indeed the iPod wordmark - Myraid and Helvetica being fonts with the same purpose, just don't sit well together in my eyes.