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
[...]Football Jersey Fonts
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
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