Helvetica Now also included a 'micro' version of the font, which was supposed to be easier to read at very small point sizes.Īnother foundry released Neue Haas Grotesk, which was an attempt to make Helvetica look more like what it looked like on letterpresses, prior to the advent of digital typography. The first updated to Helvetica was Helvetica Neue, which was an attempt to just clean up a lot of the idiosynchrocies in the font that were there when it was converted from letterpress machines to digital typography.Īnother attempt to clean up Helvetica led to Helvetica Now, who's goal was to make the font more legible on modern hi-res screens. Starting with the mid 90s there have been attempts to tweak it and make it better.
It took the world by storm and is everywhere now. The Helvetica font has been one of the staple fonts in use around the world since the 1960s. I'm also a huge fan of the Helvetica typeface. I obsess over fonts in my personal documents far more than the average person. Let me start off my saying I'm a HUGE font nerd.
