Helvetica World

details about the font
Name	Helvetica World [wrong?]
Style	Bold [wrong?]
category	Serifenlose Linear-Antiqua [wrong?]
designer(s)	Max Miedinger [wrong?]
foundry	Linotype Design Studio [wrong?]
date released	1961 [wrong?]
details about the photo
author	cndrk
date	January 25, 2012 – 01:46
place	Borsigstraße 4, 44145 Dortmund, Deutschland

more information about the font

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 Haasísche 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 Helveticaô 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.