[rkuykendall-com]

Watch the documentary. Helvetica is like air, or water. It's the font when you choose don't want to choose a font, because It says absolutely nothing.

[bluthru]

That's an opinion, not fact.

I'd say it's closer to vanilla: So versatile and distinct that it was elevated to ubiquity. Your average person would have a hard time telling you when helvetica was created or when vanilla ice cream was created. That's an achievement.

[ChristianBundy]

That's an opinion, not fact.

[bluthru]

Never claimed it to be one.

[80]

In theory. In reality it's got a ton of cultural baggage.

[midas007]

Ubiquity is itself a message. Each font has a personality that effects the impression of a work. So there's no escaping a work sending no message at all, except by not meeting deadlines. :)