What's more, the original design of Neue Haas Grotesk for handset metal has been compromised several times since it was first renamed Helvetica. Schwartz lists a litany of Helvetica sins.

“Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes and clean corners, is ubiquitous.

Use Helvetica Neue condensed or regular only; no other fonts can be used for type treatments. Can use any form of capitalization. No extraneous elements to symbolize type treatment (like a logomark).

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Brittle, anemic Helvetica is simply not a good choice as a default display font for Apple’s operating system. That’s why I’m pretty excited about this little trick to replace Helvetica Neue ...

Helvetica is a font of such practicality–and, its adherents would suggest, such beauty–that it is both ubiquitous and something of a cult.

Twitter announced today a switch from the Helvetica Neue font to Hoefler & Co’s Gotham for the Web version of its service.

It wasn’t until 1961 that the typeface was renamed Helvetica, and the font’s last major facelift came in 1982 with the release of the desktop-friendly Neue Helvetica.

Famous Helvetica-inspired logos – The company 3M chose the Helvetica Neue Condensed font family for its logo. 3M's website explains: "In order to present a contemporary image for the 3M brand, a ...

The full suite of Neue Haas Unica font styles is currently on sale for $99. Monotype, the typeface company that owns the font, lets users download one of the font’s nine styles—the thin ...