Helvetica's probably not the cool kid. He's more like the kid who's got good grades, but not enough to be on the honour roll. He's got a lot of friends, but he's nobody's BEST friend.

The cool kid might be Gotham or Neutraface right now, although who knows who will be cool tomorrow.

- Lex

The Cool Kid: Neutraface is a nice option, but so are a lot of other House Fonts.

The Gay Type: United from House Industries. See, Fox sports uses it, and trust me (I'm queer as a three-dollar bill) football is overflowing with gay guys, so use United.

The Miss World Face: The new Luxury family from House wins again. If you can't get that one, just use Mrs. Eaves

The World's Strongest: Akzidenz-Grotesk super wins here.

The Slag of all typefaces: Arial.

As for Helvetica... man, you're a design student. Use cool fonts now so that when you get stuck using Helvetica later you haven't already gotten sick of seeing it. Hell, unless you can do it at 200 picas or bigger, just don't use Helvetica at all.

Tom,

Is your "chool of type" located in England or the US, or somewhere else? I think the poster would have a very different feel if you were going for the UK instead of the US. from my observations in Dagenham Comic Sans and Gill would be the popular kids, in the US it would be other faces, maybe Franklin Gothic and Myriad.

Din is the kid who's editor of the yearbook, valedictorian, star of the school play, and everybody tries to be just like him.

Comic sans is the kid who thinks he's funny but people are laughing at him, not with him.

Times Roman is the kid who does all the grunt work to please the teacher. You can't get rid of him.

Arial is the kid your mom makes you invite to your birthday party because you invited the rest of your class but nobody talks to him - he sits in the corner picking his nose and licking the frosting off the bottoms of the candles

Eclat is popular (at least on this site) as are the House Industries kids

Gotham - everybody likes gotham, nice to the dweebs as well as the cool kids

Papyrus is the faux intellectual nobody listens to when he raises his hand in class

Mrs. Eaves is lovely and mysterious but kind of hard to get along with

Myriad is really really boring but gets good grades. Hangs out with Verdana

Avant Garde seems boring at first but has his own sense of style

Dax tries too hard to be cool

Gill isn't as interesting as he seems

Matrix is the kid who was cool a few years ago and thinks he still is... but the joke's on him

Funny stuff Patricia! :-)

hhp

Thx! It was kinda late at night...