Helvetica

## About

**Helvetica** and formely **Neue Haas Grotesk** is a sans-serif font family designed by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman, loosely based on the Akzidenz-Grotesk font.

Neue Haas Grotesk was originally created by Max Miedinger as a new sans serif font that can compete in the Swiss market, as a neutral font that should not be given any additional meaning. The name was changed to Helvetica in 1960 by the parent company Stempel in order to make it more marketable internationally. Intending to match the success of Univers, Arthur Ritzel of Stempel redesigned Neue Haas Grotesk/Helvetica into a larger family.

## Variations

Helvetica has 9 sister font families, Helvetica Light, a more lighter version of the font designed by Stempel's artistic director Erich Schultz-Anker, in conjunction with Arthur Ritzel, Helvetica Inserat (german for "advertisement"), a version designed primarily for use in the advertising industry, Helvetica Compressed, the version font family which shares some design elements with Helvetica Inserat, but uses a curved tail in Q, downward pointing branch in r, and tilde bottom £ and designed by Matthew Carter and Hans-Jürg Hunziker, Helvetica Rounded, a version containing rounded stroke terminators released for bold weights, Helvetica Narrow, a version where its width is between Helvetica Compressed and Helvetica Condensed, Helvetica Textbook,an alternate design of the typeface, which uses 'schoolbook' stylistic alternates to increase distinguishability, Neue Helvetica, a reworking of the typeface with a more structurally unified set of heights and widths, Neue Haas Grotesk (2010), a version based on original settings of the metal type and uses the typeface's original name, and Helvetica Now, a updated version of Neue Helvetica designed by Jan Hendrik Weber and Charles Nix.

## Usage

Helvetica is among the most widely used sans-serif typefaces. Versions exist for Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, Urdu, Greek, Hindi, Khmer, Urdu, and Vietnamese alphabets. Chinese faces have been developed to complement Helvetica.

Cassina, an Italian manufacturing company specialised in the creation of high-end designer furniture uses the Helvetica font, as well as the National Film Board of Canada.

Helvetica has also been widely used by the government of the United States, for examples federal income tax forms are set in Helvetica, and NASA used the type on the Space Shuttle orbiter. Helvetica is also used in the United States television rating system. The Canadian government also uses Helvetica as its identifying typeface, with three variants being used in its corporate identity program, and encourages its use in all federal agencies and websites.

Helvetica has also been widely used in transportation settings.

## Glyphs

Lorem Ipsum is simply

**Helvetica**

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

**abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz**

**ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ**

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## References

1. ↑ http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/history/
2. ↑ http://new.myfonts.com/person/ritzel/arthur/overview.html
3. ↑ http://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2011/11/from-the-archives-no-26%E2%80%94helvetica-and-univers/
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090422194033/http://www.thamesandhudson.com/books/Creative\_Type/9780500512296.mxs/20/11/
5. ↑ https://www.linotype.com/8023/helvetica-rounded.html
6. ↑ http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/history/
7. ↑ https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now/
8. ↑ https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the-first-redesign-in-35-years-of-the-worlds-most-ubiquitous-font-helvetica/
9. ↑ https://creativepro.com/introducing-helvetica-now-a-reinvented-classic/
10. ↑ http://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/44/helvetica
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica\_(film)
12. ↑ http://www.livewellcollaborative.org/uc/images/stories/U10\_Urban\_Transportation\_Studio/Branding/History%20of%20Fonts%20in%20Transit.pdf