I always say that San Francisco is Helvetica’s pretty cousin because it is. Great brands understand that and they try to come up with their own typefaces that cater to their expression needs. To waste that chance on a font that was built to convey your words without any padding of emotion and meaning is a true shame unless that’s the purpose and the intent from the get-go. That’s both the genius behind it and its most daunting aspect.Īs I stated in a previous article, a typeface gives you access to a great dimension of expression. Helvetica says whatever you want it to say. You can use it for anything and it works! Here’s just a glimpse of the brands that use it for their logos. It doesn’t take a typography expert to see that they pulled it off with flying colors. Their description of Helvetica Neue puts it even better: “ The font is perfect for international correspondence: no ornament, no emotion, just clear presentation of information”. Linotype, the type foundry that owns Helvetica puts it perfectly: “ It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes”.
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Miedinger and Hoffmann, the original designers, set out to create a “neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form and could be used on a wide variety of signage” as the movie puts it. The movie was made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original release of Helvetica in 1957. Gary Hustwit tells the inception story of Helvetica in his 2007 documentary“ Helvetica”. It has to do with how and why Helvetica was built in the first place Helvetica is Neutral I t is reported that IBM was spending over $1m annually on licensing fees for Helvetica Neue before they made their own IBM Plex typeface in 2017.īut there’s two other reasons for that, reasons more relevant to us in the context of this new Helvetica release. When your website and app are used by millions of people every day, the bill gets expensive.
Perhaps the most prevalent of them is the fact that Helvetica isn’t free. There are plenty of reasons why many tech giants are going with their own bespoke fonts that keep looking like Helvetica.
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