Hey .. you do need to know that font people regularly reference each other like this .. its kind of a thing in typography, and its a means of demonstrating inspiration and lineage, more than anything else - calling out ones inspiration, in fact.

If there is any one particular hat who can sell controversy, its the typographer.

>fix it all the way to Helvetica

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Akzidenz-Grotesk Helvetica || gtfo, nichtwa?