The Helvetica™ (Latin for Swiss) has the objective and functional style which was associated with Swiss typography in the 1950s and 1960s. The font is perfect for international correspondence: no ornament, no emotion, just clear presentation of information. Helvetica™ font is still one of most popular sans-serif fonts.
Helvetica™, the typeface par excellence, can look back on a colorful life. Originally designed for hand composition, it has been adapted over the years for all methods of
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Football is in the air! Like all great team sports, football (or soccer, if you are in the US) inspires its fans to identify with their favorite team’s players, and sometimes even with a specific city or country. Each football team has its own visual identity, and the appearance of their logos and jerseys are one of the most exciting areas of graphic design. And it is no surprise that fonts play a strong role!
Below are images of just a few of the jerseys known and
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Customers from all over the world come to Linotype.com every day to purchase fonts. Below is a list of the 20 typeface families that our customers licensed most often in during 2008. Do you know them all?
The “Neue Helvetica Pro” CD contains all 51 “Neue Helvetica” fonts on a CD for Mac and PC in OpenType CFF format, which is suitable for all platforms (CFF = OpenType PostScript Flavoured).
The character set supports a total of 48 different roman languages.
Background information
Helvetica™ is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. The original typeface was called Haas
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Helvetica™ – still the most popular sans-serif font.
Get the original from Linotype as single fonts, in a Value Pack, or on CD.
Unbeatable price! Purchase all 36 Helvetica weights in one package, available now for instant download.
Need individual Helvetica weights? No problem! Single font weights from the Helvetica typeface are available for instant download. From .
Neue Helvetica: the official update and extension of
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The right fonts for the three official alphabets of the European Union. With the entrance of Bulgaria in January 2007, the Cyrillic script joined the Latin and Greek alphabets to become the Union’s third official alphabet.
Linotype Original Fonts with the “W1G” additional marking meet the character set allocation in accordance with Linotype W1G (World Glyph 1) norm.
Here is a list of all languages supported by W1G fonts (PDF file English/German, 1 mb).
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[...]Max Miedinger – born 24.12.1910 in Zurich, Switzerland, died 8.3.1980 in Zurich, Switzerland – type designer.
1926-30: trains as a typesetter in Zurich, after which he attends evening classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. 1936-46: typographer for Globus department store’s advertising studio in Zurich. 1947-56: customer counselor and typeface sales representative for the Haas’sche Schriftgießerei in Münchenstein near Basle. From 1956 onwards: freelance graphic artist in
[...]Linotype previously had three design studios located around the globe:
Mergenthaler Linotype, in the United States, was founded in Brooklyn, but later moved to Melville, NY, and then to Hauppauge, NY. Mergenthaler Linotype's design studio employed at varying times up to 80 designers under the direction of Chauncey H. Griffith, Jackson Burke, Mike Parker, and Matthew Carter.
In continental Europe, Linotype typefaces were produced by the D. Stempel AG typefoundry in Frankfurt, Germany.
[...]This typeface, designed by Max Miedinger and other project members at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei, has become one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world, thanks to the marketing strategy of Stempel and Linotype. It forms an integral part of many printers and operating systems. The original letterforms of Helvetica™ had to be modified for the Linotype system. Over the years, Helvetica™ was expanded to include many different weights, but these were not coordinated with each
[...]Special features of “Neue Helvetica” Pro
The “Neue Helvetica Pro” CD contains all 51 “Neue Helvetica” fonts on a CD for Mac and PC in OpenType CFF format, which is suitable for all platforms (CFF = OpenType PostScript Flavoured).
The character set supports a total of 48 different roman languages.
Background information
Helvetica™ is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes.
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Typographic Tip of the Month from Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi!
June 2006: “Apostrophes and Quotation Marks”
Which glyph is correct: the inch, the acute, or the apostrophe? – This feature describes the poper use of the pesky punctuation mark that signifies omission and forms the possessive (and sometimes plurals).
Apostrophes
Prime symbol, used here to incorrectly create the
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In 1983, D. Stempel AG redesigned the famous Helvetica typeface for the digital age, creating
Neue Helvetica for Linotype: a self-contained font family. Today, this family consists of 51 different font weights.
It's original numbering system for the weight designations came from Adrian Frutiger's numbering system for the Univers family. The basic font weight, "Neue Helvetica Roman", is at the heart of this numbering system. The designation "55 Roman" forms the central point. The first figure of the number describes the stroke thickness -- 25 for ultra light to 95 for extra black. The second figure gives information on the width and orientation of the font -- "Neue Helvetica 53 Extended" or "Neue Helvetica 57 Condensed," for instance.
Neue Helvetica sets new standards in terms of its form and number of variants. It is the quintessential sans serif font, timeless and neutral, and can be used for all types of communication. Neue Helvetica is one of three Helvetica typeface families from Linotype. Aside from the original Helvetica from the 1960s, there is the 21st Century Helvetica World, with rich language support capabilities.
Neue Helvetica contains 51 different font weights. All weights are also available in Central European versions, supporting the languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Lastly, 34 weights are available in Cyrillic versions.
Many customers ask us what good non-Latin typefaces can be mixed with Neue Helvetica. Fortunately, Neue Helvetica already has Cyrillic versions,
has Greek as well, and Helvetica World includes a specially-designed Hebrew Helvetica in its OpenType character set. But Linotype also offers a number of CJK fonts that can be matched with Neue Helvetica.
Chinese fonts that pair well with Neue Helvetica:
DF Hei (Simplified Chinese)
DF Hei (Traditional Chinese)
DF Li Hei (Traditional Chinese)
DFP Hei (Simplified Chinese)
Japanese fonts that pair well with Neue Helvetica:
DF Gothic
DF Gothic P
DFHS Gothic
Korean fonts that pair well with Neue Helvetica:
DFK Gothic
