"Helvetica" turns 50, still not in OED?

[James Harbeck]

>Are other famous typefaces missing from OED?

Bembo is there. So are Bodoni, Garamond, Goudy... But they're all
eponymous. Futura is absent, and it's a fairly important face with a
good history. Arial, the more recent knock-off (some would say) of
Helvetica, is (thankfully) also absent. It would seem, prima facie,
that typefaces make it into the OED by being named after type
designers.

Ciao,
James Harbeck.

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