helvetica haiku

The documentary about the font Helvetica premiered at SXSW this week. As if that's not reason enough for typography geeks to rejoice, Manage This blog is also running a contest for font-related haikus. There are some pretty clever haikus already posted - here are some of my faves so far:

Ubiquitous font
My mom even knows your name
But I still love you

- Brian Faust

I sure like your type
maybe on some page we can
spoon like ligatures

- dory

Oh Helvetica!
You should have been a metal band
That would be Awesome

- niel

i shot the serif
left him there full of leading
yearning for kerning

- djm

COMIC SANS: a haiku

Hey guys! LOL!
I forward jokes! And cat pics!
I heart MSN.
:)

- nicole stamp

The font haiku contest runs until March 23, 2007, and the winner gets a limited edition Helvetica movie poster.

One more typographic gem: this kerning hoodie from Veer is brilliant. (If you don't get the joke, here's the definition of kerning.)

UPDATE: The contest winners have been announced!