I created this graphic for a user on this forum and thought others might find it useful as well.
One of the major indicators of a hoax in the MJ-12 Special Operations Manual is the persistent use of Helvetica throughout the manual.
While the manual is dated 1954 on the cover, Helvetica wasn’t released until 1957, three years after the manual was supposedly printed.
A little digging into typography history will show that Helvetica was originally named Neue Haas Grotesk. This typeface was released in 1957, and the name was later changed to Helvetica. The name may have changed, but the design of the typeface stayed the same.
Karl Gerstner wrote a wonderful article in 1963 for Der Drückspiegel (an industry publication) about Grotesk typefaces (an older term for sans-serif typefaces). He explicitly states Helvetica’s release in 1957 in the first paragraph on page three. Additionally there are wonderful visual comparisons of several sans-serif typefaces throughout the article.
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