Helvetica® World Font Family

Helvetica® World Regular (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 165.00     Especially suitable for Office Applications running in MS Windows.

Helvetica® World Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 165.00     Especially suitable for Office Applications running in MS Windows.

Helvetica® World Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 165.00     Especially suitable for Office Applications running in MS Windows.

Helvetica® World Bold Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 165.00     Especially suitable for Office Applications running in MS Windows.

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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). Search our [...]

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 [...]

Corporate design across the global market requires a universal typographic identity. The prize-winning Helvetica Linotype is the latest revision to our world famous Helvetica typeface. Offering support for important linguistic groups, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Vietnamese, Helvetica Linotype allows worldwide usability within a single font! The powerful Unicode technology behind the fonts’ OpenType format makes Helvetica Linotype the only standard font to include such a broad [...]

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 Neue Haas Grotesk, and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Switzerland. In 1960 the name was changed to Helvetica (an adaptation of "Helvetia", the Latin name for Switzerland).

Over the years, the original Helvetica family was expanded to include many different weights, but these were not as well coordinated with each other as they might have been. In 1983, D. Stempel AG and Linotype re-designed and digitized Neue Helvetica and updated it into a cohesive font family. At the beginning of the 21st Century, Linotype again released an updated design of Helvetica, the Helvetica World typeface family. This family is much smaller in terms of its number of fonts, but each font makes up for this in terms of language support. Helvetica World supports a number of languages and writing systems from all over the globe.

Helvetica World, an update to the classic Helvetica design using the OpenType font format, contains the following Microsoft code pages:
1252 Latin 1,
1250 Latin 2 Eastern,
1251 Cyrillic,
1253 Greek,
1254 Turk,
1255 Hebrew,
1256 Arabic,
1257 Windows Baltic,
1258 Windows Vietnamese,
as well as a mixture of box drawing element glyphs and mathematical symbols & operators.
In total, each weight of Helvetica World contains 1866 different glyph characters!

Many customers ask us what good non-Latin typefaces can be mixed with Helvetica World. Fortunately, Helvetica World already includes Greek, Cyrillic and a specially-designed Hebrew in its OpenType character set. But Linotype also offers a number of CJK fonts that can be matched with Helvetica World.

Chinese fonts that pair well with Helvetica World:
DF Hei (Simplified Chinese)
DF Hei (Traditional Chinese)
DF Li Hei (Traditional Chinese)
DFP Hei (Simplified Chinese)

Japanese fonts that pair well with Helvetica World:
DF Gothic
DF Gothic P
DFHS Gothic

Korean fonts that pair well with Helvetica World:
DFK Gothic