Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann….Helvetica.
IBM Plex Sans (more squared-off and technical feeling). If you’re looking for free alternatives to Helvetica, here are 7 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts. What fonts are similar to Helvetica Neue? What is the closest Microsoft font to Helvetica?. 
Is Neue Haas Grotesk same as Helvetica?. What fonts are similar to Helvetica Neue?. Helvetica poster by Guilherme Augusto dos Reis S. Which one is your favorite?Ģ Helvetica in love poster by Phristopher Last but not least it is rated number one on FontShop’s “Best Fonts of All Time”.Ĭheck out our collection of posters dedicated to the celebrated typeface. Not to forget its own celebratory exhibition at the MOMA in New York titled “50 Years of Helvetica” in 2008. It’s even found its way to outer space as NASA’s official typeface used on their Space Shuttles, and has its own documentary movie made out of it, Helvetica by Gary Huswitt. Some of the largest companies, such as McDonald’s, Jeep, CNN, Target, Lufthansa, just to name a few, use it. Helvetica is the most popular choice for a typeface in commercial, industrial and even in government use. In 1990, a digital version of Helvetica, Arial, was introduced and became a huge success as well. Since the late 1980s, Helvetica is ubiquitous. (For more information about its development check out our previous post The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest.) Later on, it was slightly modified and re-named as Helvetica in order to be more internationally marketable. Originally created to compete with the successful Akzidenz-Grotesk font, being named the Neue Haas Grotesk (New Haas Gotesk), it was mainly based on Schelter-Grotesk and Haas Normal Gortesk. 
Designed as a neutral typeface with great clarity, no intricate meaning in its form with a wide variety of uses it has reached great success. Developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger in collaboration with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Münchenstein, Switzerland. Helvetica is the most widely used sans-serif typeface in the world. We collected 20 stunning posters, all paying tribute to the typeface called Helvetica, some with very funny (but true) captions! You’ve guessed it? We are talking about Helvetica! Font designers have been obsessed with it for decades, it has fanatic typography fans and it seems to never lose its appeal. It is over fifty years old, originated from Switzerland and is the most popular and widely used font in the world.
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