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Improved LegibilityĮvery letter, number, punctuation mark and symbol in the family-nearly 40,000 in all - has been redrawn, analyzed and tested for improved legibility and performance. Newly designed alternate glyphs have been added across the entire range of the family, including a single-story “a” and a straight-legged capital “R.” Every weight and optical size offers a host of new and useful glyphs, including a suite of Helvetica arrows. And Helvetica Now Text offers a range of weights from Thin to Black with carefully combed spacing and kerning, making it easier and more pleasing to read, and an ample palette for information-rich design environments.
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To achieve big and bold uses, this eliminates the need to trim characters, manual adjustment of spacing and kerning, or the resizing and repositioning of punctuation necessary with the legacy versions. Helvetica Now Display offers a range of weights from Hairline to Extra Black, with appropriate spacing, for 14-point settings and up. Helvetica Now Micro helps solve the decades-old spacing and legibility shortcomings of single-master versions of the family at the smallest sizes (4- to 7-points). There are now more open apertures, wider forms, a larger x-height, open spacing, larger accents, optical adjustments to the shapes of complex forms, and a number of other changes to produce a highly legible font at very small sizes. The Helvetica Now typeface is available in three optical sizes -Micro, Display and Text.
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The design introduces a new chapter in the Helvetica story - expanding its look and utility, while reinvigorating its heritage.” “Helvetica Now solves the legibility and style challenges that brands using Helvetica have consciously and unconsciously faced for years. As a result, older versions of the font were lacking in some important areas,” said Charles Nix, Type Director at Monotype. Previous versions of the typeface weren’t designed to be used in graphic applications that have developed over the last 30 years. “Today, we’re asking Helvetica to do more than it ever has before. Espousing the simplicity, clarity, timelessness and global appeal of the typeface’s tradition, the design is described as “more sophisticated and graceful than its predecessors.” The typeface has long embodied clean and versatile design, and the Helvetica Now typeface continues the tradition established by the Helvetica and Neue Helvetica families, while introducing a number of improvements. Every character has been redrawn and refit, and a host of useful alternates have been added to help brands meet modern-day branding challenges. Consisting of 48 fonts and three optical sizes, the Helvetica Now typeface has been produced from size-specific drawings and with size-specific spacing. Monotype has introduced the Helvetica® Now typeface, a family of fonts reinvented by the Monotype Studio for the modern era.