Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces on the planet. Here’s why Monotype decided to remake it. Helvetica was dreamed up as a universal typeface in 1957 and it’s still incredibly popular –you ...

Few typefaces have achieved household name status. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Maybe. Helvetica—definitely. So when it came to updating the famed sans-serif developed by Swiss designer Max ...

The Helvetica font family is everywhere. It’s used on everything from subway signage to federal tax forms to advertisements for a diverse group of companies, including Harley-Davidson, Oral-B, and ...

“Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes and clean corners, is ubiquitous. It is used on the ...

Introducing Helvetica Now! (All images courtesy of Monotype Imaging Inc.) There are two kinds of people in this world: people who care intensely about fonts, and the rest of us. Presumably this goes ...

It's been used by brands such as American Airlines, Panasonic and Toyota. It's all over the signage in the New York City subway system. Even Google, Apple and Netflix used it for a time. Helvetica is ...

Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years. The Helvetica typeface ...

Imagine if, due to some fluke in the development of projection technology, The Empire Strikes Back had only been shown in a couple of movie theaters. Imagine it fading into obscurity and existing for ...

One of the few places the Helvetica font has failed to infiltrate over the past half-century is the graveyard – Roman typefaces such as Perpetua or Bembo tend to work better on headstones. But perhaps ...

This is the second excerpt from Just My Type. To read the first, “The 8 Worst Fonts in the World,” go here. What is it about the Swiss? Or, to be precise: what is it about the Swiss and their sans ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Steve Hicks, the chief digital creative officer at McGarryBowen, wrote a thoughtful essay for Adweek about the way Helvetica — the typeface used ...

Armin Vit is the founder of Under Consideration, a design-based media group that runs a series of blogs and publishes books on the subject. Unhappy with the new Helvetica-happy logo for the University ...