![]() ![]() There's also an extensive set of alternates, which allow designers the opportunity to experiment with and adapt Helvetica's tone of voice. Helvetica Now's Micro designs are simplified and exaggerated to maintain the impression of Helvetica in tiny type, and their spacing is loose, providing remarkable legibility at microscopic sizes and in low-res environments. In the past, the typeface struggled to be legible at tiny sizes because of its compactness and closed apertures. The Micro sizes address an issue Helvetica has long faced – that of being 'micro type challenged'. The larger Display versions are drawn to show off the subtlety of Helvetica and spaced with headlines in mind, while the Text sizes focus on legibility, using robust strokes and comfortably loose spaces. Each one has been carefully tailored to the demands of its size. Helvetica Now comprises 96 fonts, consisting of three distinct optical sizes: Micro, Text and Display, all in two widths. Hermann Berthold served as the head of the Berthold type foundry until 1888.Įvery single glyph of Helvetica has been redrawn and redesigned for this expansive new edition – which preserves the typeface's Swiss mantra of clarity, simplicity and neutrality, while updating it for the demands of contemporary design and branding. This was the birth of the first generally binding system of typographic measurement. With the aid of Professor Foerster he succeeded in devising a basic unit of measurement (1m = 2,660 typographic points). In 1878 Hermann Berthold was commissioned to put an end to the confusion of typographic systems of measurement. His products became so popular that the print trade popularized the saying "As precise as Berthold brass". Most of German's letterpress printers and many printers abroad placed their orders with Berthold. They produced outstandingly fine results. The lines were elastic and therefore highly durable. The soldering normally necessary could also be dispensed with. Very quickly he discovered a method of producing circular lines from brass and not, as customary at that time, from lead or zinc. On completion of his apprenticeship as a precision-instrument maker and after practical experience gained abroad in galvanography, Hermann Berthold founded his "Institute for Galvano Technology" in Berlin in 1858. Chinese fonts that pair well with Helvetica: DF Hei (Simplified Chinese) DF Hei (Traditional Chinese) DF Li Hei (Traditional Chinese) DFP Hei (Simplified Chinese) Japanese fonts that pair well with Helvetica: DF Gothic DF Gothic P DFHS Gothic Korean fonts that pair well with Helvetica: DFK Gothic"īorn in 1831, Hermann Berthold was the son of a calico-printer. But Linotype also offers a number of CJK fonts that can be matched with Helvetica. Helvetica has also been extende to Georgian and a special "eText" version has been designed with larger xheight and opened counters for the use in small point sizes and on E-reader devices. Fortunately, Helvetica already has Greek and Cyrillic versions, and Helvetica World includes a specially-designed Hebrew Helvetica in its OpenType character set. Many customers ask us what good non-Latin typefaces can be mixed with Helvetica. 20 weights are also available in Cyrillic versions, and four are available in Greek versions. 20 weights are available in Central European versions, supporting the languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the original Helvetica family consists of 34 different font weights. Helvetica World supports a number of languages and writing systems from all over the globe. This family is much smaller in terms of its number of fonts, but each font makes up for this in terms of language support. ![]() ![]() At the beginning of the 21st Century, Linotype again released an updated design of Helvetica, the Helvetica World typeface family. Stempel AG and Linotype re-designed and digitized Neue Helvetica and updated it into a cohesive font family. Over the years, the 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 1960 the name was changed to Helvetica (an adaptation of Helvetia", the Latin name for Switzerland). 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. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. ![]()
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