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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Helvetica Now marks the typeface's first redesign since 1982's Helvetica Neue Courtesy of Monotype The world’s most popular typeface has a new look: Helvetica Now. Four years in the making, it’s the ...

Steve Hicks, the chief digital creative officer at McGarryBowen, wrote a thoughtful essay for Adweek about the way Helvetica — the typeface used by Business Insider and dozens of other brands — will ...

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 ...

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 ...