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Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely-used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. [2] Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, one influenced by the famous 19th-century (1890s) typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk and other German and Swiss designs. [3]
Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 – 8 March 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer, [1] best known for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved immediate global success. [2]
Helvetia (/ h ɛ l ˈ v iː ʃ ə /) [1] is a national personification of Switzerland, officially Confoederatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing clothing, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair and a wreath as a symbol of confederation.
Helvetica is a 2007 American independent feature-length documentary film about typography and graphic design, centered on the Helvetica typeface.Directed by Gary Hustwit, it was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction in 1957 and is considered the first of the Design Trilogy by the director.
Older iOS devices continue to use Helvetica or Helvetica Neue in regular font weights that display with higher contrast on low-resolution displays. With the introduction of OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" in June 2014, Apple started using Helvetica Neue as the system font on the Mac. This brought all of Apple's user interfaces in line, using Helvetica ...
This is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences.The list includes typefaces that have articles or that are referenced. ...
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org هيلفيتيكا; Usage on az.wikipedia.org Helvetika; Usage on ca.wikipedia.org
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