Helvetica World
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First seen on MyFonts: June 8th, 2006
Designed when: 2002
Letterform design based on: Helvetica
Contained in Category: Legible
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: 1980s, business text, corporate, German, grotesk, information, legible, linear, linear sans, magazine, modern, modest, newsletter, rounded, sans-serif, signage, static, Swiss, technical, tech pubs, testkeyword, XSF

Helvetica World

Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. 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. In 1960 the name was changed to Helvetica (an adaptation of Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland).

Over the years, the original Helvetica™ family was expanded to include many different weights, but these were not as well coordinated with each other as they might have been. At the beginning of the 21st Century, Linotype released an updated design of Helvetica, the Helvetica World typeface family. This family is much smaller in terms of its number of fonts, but each font makes up for this in terms of language support. Helvetica World supports a number of languages and writing systems from all over the globe.

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