Helvetica is celebrated and loathed for its ubiquity. Now, the 62-year-old font is getting a face lift for the digital age.

Monotype today introduced Helvetica Now Variable, offering over a million new Helvetica Now styles in one state-of-the-art font file.

Helvetica, arguably the world’s most popular font, was created in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffman. It was designed primarily to address the faults of its predecessor sans serif fonts ...