Skip to content
Heltar

Heltar™

by The Northern Block
Individual Styles from $19.30
Complete family of 10 fonts: $45.10
Heltar Font Family was designed by Jonathan Hill and published by The Northern Block. Heltar contains 10 styles and family package options.

More about this family
FREE 30-DAY TRIAL of Monotype Fonts to get Heltar plus over 150,000 fonts. Start free trial
Start free trial

About Heltar Font Family


A modern neo-grotesque typeface. Having grown up in Sheffield and been completely immersed in the work of The Designers Republic I became very drawn to their treatment of Helvetica, especially the close tracking of the letter space. This visual investigation led me to the study of the font Hass Unica, a so called improvement to Helvetica. In order not to replicate and become a clone of Unica I redrew all the characters from scratch improving optical appearance, developing subtle corrections and reshaping individual letterforms. The result is a remixed neo-grotesque font that has strong general optical balance with great rhythm under close tracking. Details include 10 weights, an extended European character set, true italic, manually edited kerning and Euro symbol.

Designers: Jonathan Hill

Publisher: The Northern Block

Foundry: The Northern Block

Design Owner: The Northern Block

MyFonts debut: Dec 8, 2011

Heltar™ is a trademark of The Northern Block.

About The Northern Block

Founded in 2006 by Jonathan Hill, The Northern Block is a collaborative type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers. The Northern Block's highly skilled and enthusiastic global team, designs and develops award-winning retail and custom typefaces, and is pushing forward the design of non-latin scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew.The Premium foundry page can be viewed Here.

Read more

Read less