About The Font

Helvetica font is a historical sans serif typeface font. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, which was  inspired by the famous 19th century (1890s) typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk. The Helvetica was designed  back in 1957. At the beginning it was known as the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface but in 1960 the font was renamed to Helvetica font. In this so many years after the release the Helvetica have achieved a huge reputation all over the world. 

A famous Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger designed the Helvetica font. Mr Miedinger started his career as typeface designer from a very early age. In his long colorful career he designed many groundbreaking fonts which gradually became very popular all over the world. Among his fonts, some noteworthy ones are; Pro Arte, Horizontal, Helvetica Monospaced, Helvetica Inserat, etc.

The Helvetica font has six different styles, such as; Helvetica Light, Helvetica Inserat, Helvetica Compressed, Helvetica Rounded, Helvetica Narrow, Helvetica Textbook. This font usually can be found in three different weights, those are Regular, Medium and Bold. Support in many variations of languages. Beside Latin languages, the font has Arabic variants. This font has been developed in many languages by several designers. In 2019 Helvetica announced a new variant, which is Neo-Helvetica mostly known as Helvetica Now. Both uppercase and lowercase are available in this font. You can download this font in OTF and TTF format. 

The font is free for personal use only. For commercial purposes you may need to contact the font foundry. No worries, this is not a critical process. By paying a certain amount of money you can obtain a commercial license very easily.

So, if you think that this font can fulfill the needs of your project, then you can download the Helvetica Font very easily. All you need to do is, just click on the download button.

Usage

Helvetica is a common choice for commercial wordmarks. Apple used Helvetica until 2015 as the system typeface for iOS. It is commonly used in transportation settings. In imitation of Helvetica, the British railway system created the Rail Alphabet font, but now it is used by their National Health Service and Airports Authority. It is also used in street and house signage.

If you use Helvetica only for personal work, you will be able to handle every type of project with it. You can create logos, banners, posters, brochures, etc. with it. It is very suitable for websites and blog images. You can use it in books, newspapers, and magazines for both writing and designing. It is perfect for PowerPoint presentations and advertisements. You can use it in news headlines and Youtube thumbnails.

Font information

License Information

Helvetica is free for personal use only. For commercial purposes, contact the font owner.

Download

Enjoy free Helvetica now. There is no hassle to access it. Just click the download button and have unlimited fun.

Similar Font

Here is the most similar collection of Helvetica.

• Aktiv Grotesk
• Univers
• Untitled Sans
• Acumin
• VISIA Pro
• Noirden Sans
• Bw Nista International
• Exensa Grotesk
• Noveltica Nova Pro

Font Family

Helvetica has six different styles. All the styles are included below.

• Helvetica Light
• Helvetica Inserat,
• Helvetica Compressed,
• Helvetica Rounded,
• Helvetica Narrow,
• Helvetica Textbook

Font Pairing

Helvetica looks good with every font. However, you can try these suggested ones also.

• Schnyder
• Suisse Works
• Louize Display
• Ortica
• Times New Roman
• Cooper
• Pitch
• Miller
• Times Dot
• Heldane Display
• Editorial New
• Untitled Sans
• GT Pressura Mono
• Ginto

Supported Languages

Helvetica supports huge languages. Some of the noteworthy ones are given below:

English, Sami (Lule), Sami (Northern), Samoan, Sardinian (Sardu), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Seychellois Creole (Seselwa), Shona, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat (Cyrillic), Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cheyenne, Chichewa (Nyanja), Chuvash, Cimbrian, Corsican, Nahuatl, Nenets, Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Slovenian (Slovene), Somali, Southern Ndebele, etc.

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