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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]
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.
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.
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]
The Helvetic Republic (République helvétique ; Helvetische Republik ; Repubblica Elvetica ; Republica helvetica ) was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Helvetica Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffman Class: Neo-grotesque : Highway Gothic Designer: Ted Forbes Class: Neo-grotesque : IBM Plex Sans Designer: Mike Abbink Class: Grotesque : Impact Designer: Geoffrey Lee Class: Grotesque : Interstate Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones Class: Mixed : Inter Designer: Rasmus Andersson Class: Neo-grotesque ...
The final design on the obverse shows the bust of an alpine herdsman in semi-profile, with the legend Confœderatio Helvetica, rev: federal coat of arms without hatching, flanked by edelweiss and gentian, legend "5 Fr." above the shield, the rim inscription was as in 1888–1916. In 1931, the 5 francs coin was reduced from 25 to 15 grams, and ...
The First Helvetic Confession (Latin: Confessio Helvetica prior), known also as the Second Confession of Basel, was drawn up in Basel in 1536 by Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud of Zurich, Kaspar Megander of Bern, Oswald Myconius and Simon Grynaeus of Basel, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito of Strasbourg, with other representatives from Schaffhausen, St Gall, Mühlhausen and Biel.