| Name | Helvetica Font |
| Style | Sans-serif |
| Designer | Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann |
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Helvetica Font is among the most widely used sans serif typefaces and has been a popular choice for corporate logos, including those of 3M, American Airlines, American Apparel, BMW, Jeep, JCPenney, Lufthansa, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Electric, Orange, Target, Toyota, Panasonic, Motorola, Kawasaki, and Verizon Wireless. Apple has incorporated Helvetica into the iOS® platform and the iPod® device. Helvetica is widely used by the United States government, mostly on federal income tax forms, and NASA selected the type for the space shuttle orbiters.
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Helvetica Font History
Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. Add an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean and no-nonsense forms. The original typeface was called Neue Haas Grotesk and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for 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).
Today, the original Helvetica family consists of 34 different typefaces. There are 20 weights available in Central European versions, supporting Central and Eastern European languages. 20 pesos are also available in Cyrillic versions and four are available in Greek versions.
Helvetica Font Family
- Helvetica Pro Light
- Helvetica Pro Light Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Roman
- Helvetica Pro Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Bold
- Helvetica Pro Bold Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Black
- Helvetica Pro Black Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Light Condensed
- Helvetica Pro Light Condensed Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Condensed
- Helvetica Pro Condensed Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Bold Condensed
- Helvetica Pro Bold Condensed Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Black Condensed
- Helvetica Pro Black Condensed Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Narrow Roman
- Helvetica Pro Narrow Roman Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Narrow Bold
- Helvetica Pro Narrow Bold Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Compressed
- Helvetica Pro Extra Compressed
- Helvetica Pro Ultra Compressed
- Helvetica Pro Inserat Roman
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Bold
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Bold Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Black
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Black Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Bold Condensed
- Helvetica Pro Rounded Bold Condensed Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Textbook Roman
- Helvetica Pro Textbook Oblique
- Helvetica Pro Textbook Bold
- Helvetica Pro Textbook Bold Oblique
- Helvetica Std Fractions
- Helvetica Std Fractions Bold
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- Aktiv Grotesk Font
- Univers Font
- Untitled Sans Font
- Acumin Font
- VISIA Pro Font
- Noirden Sans Font
- Bw Nista International Font
- Exensa Grotesk Font
- Noveltica Nova Pro Font
- Montserrat Font
Helvetica Font View
Language Support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic (Irish, Scots), Gagauz (Latin), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Karelian, Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Moldavian (Latin), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Saami (Southern), Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin).
Download Helvetica Font Family
How to install Helvetica Font on Windows
- Download the font files.
- Right-click the font, and click Install.
- Your new fonts will appear in the fonts list in Word.
How to install Helvetica Font on Mac
After downloading a font, let’s say Freight Sans font. It came in a zip format. Just double-click on the file and it will unzip immediately. The fonts basically come with .ttf (TrueType Font) or.OTF (OpenType Font) format.
- Click on the font files. It will open like the picture below.
- Click the Install button down on the right corner. It is marked in the picture below.
Your font is now installed.
How to install Helvetica Font on Linux?
Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to fonts:// in the File Manager.
Or: Go into the /home folder, in the menu select View > Show Hidden Files, you will see the hidden folder .fonts (if not, create it) then copy the font files there.
Or: (under some Linux versions – Ubuntu for example) Double-click the font file > “Install font” button in the preview window.
