At the outset, AT&amp;T had wanted to set the phone books in Helvetica, but as my friend Erik Spiekermann said in the Helvetica movie, if you've seen that, the letters in Helvetica were designed to be as similar to one another as possible.
Au départ, AT&amp;T voulait imprimer ses annuaires en Helvetica, mais, comme Erik Spiekermann le dit dans le film Helvetica, si vous l'avez vu, les lettres Helvetica ont été conçues pour favoriser au maximum la similitude entre elles.