Helvetica Documentary

In the Helvetica documentary, i learned about helvetica's history and about the different ways that people have used it.
I like Helvetica because it's simple, but i also dislike it because of it's plainness. it gets sort of tiresome looking at the same font everywhere. I, however, do like the way some of the designer in the documentary used Helvetica. i liked how they make the letters both big and small and put them all over the page.
Some designers, however, don't like Helvetica because of the reason i put up there. because its so plain, it takes away some of the character that should have been in the text. Another reason is its over-use. So many people have used it for signs, posters, and other things. They designers who dislike it think that using Helvetica makes it blend in with it's surrounding signs and posters. They want to make their stuff stand out from the others. They want theirs to be different.

That's what Helvetica is mainly used for. Posters and signs. If you walk around outside and look at the billboards and store signs, most of the ones you see will most likely be using Helvetica.