Helvetica is the official typeface for the Federal Identity Program. This includes typeface designs with minor variations under the names Helvetica, Helvetica Neue and Helvetica Now. The weight of the ...

While its title invokes the almost fetishistic qualities of typography, the Sex, Drugs & Helvetica conference offers a far more rounded series of vantages on graphic design and its associated ...

Helvetica then, Helvetica Now Before there was Helvetica, there was Neue Haas Grotesk. Created in 1957, the typeface sprung from the mind of Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffman.

Then, in the 1980s, the Linotype Design Studio redrew the family, which had grown into a huge set of disparate weights and widths, as Neue Helvetica.

In Brief Helvetica Gets Its First Redesign in Three Decades The font has been the subject of a feature-length documentary and 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Talk to a graphic designer today and they will often admit an intense dislike of Helvetica. Purists have sought to reinstate the original Neue Haas Grotesk, restoring almost imperceptible details ...

Leading graphic designer and typographer Neville Brody, who sparked a spate of Helvetica use with his design for Arena magazine in the 80s, says the typeface represents a safe choice for businesses.