Helvetica
Developed at the Haas typefoundry in Münchenstein, Switzerland, to compete with the sans-serif typeface Akzidenz Grotesk, it has succeeded in becoming the most popular typeface in the world. It was originally named "Neue Haas Grotesk", but was renamed Helvetica (from the Latin name for Switzerland) by the German Stempel foundry when they produced versions in 1961.
Currently one of Identifont's ten most popular text sans-serif fonts.
There are updated versions of this font: Helvetica Now Text and Neue Helvetica.
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Designers: Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann Year: 1957, 1985 Publishers: Adobe and Linotype Included with Apple's Mac OS X Panther (10.3) operating system. A PostScript version of this font is built in to most PostScript printers. Influenced by: Influence on: |
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