![]() These are the scans that I printed on my Brother HL-3170CDW laser printer: You're not going to look at this and immediately go "Oh wow! That one is way better than the others." I would love people's feedback on which they like the best. I'm also going to post a link to a 2 page PDF you can print out on your printer at home to look at on paper. I am going to post some 300 dpi scans I did of 2 test pages I did with all these fonts printed out. I am curious which font of all these Helvetica and Helvetica-like fonts do you like the best. Now that the story behind this is out of the way, I was hoping I could ask a favor here. Then I read an interview with the guy that developed it, and he said the instructions he was given was to make a sans-serif font that is as boring as possible. I always found the font to be quite boring. Then we have Neue Haas Utica, which was not really an attempt to clean up Helvetica, but more an attempt to make a modern font inspired by Helvetica.Īndy lastly, we have Arial, which is font that kinda looks like Helvetica at times, but isn't really Helvetica. Neue Haas Grotesk was the original name of Helvetic when it first came out. 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. ![]()
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