“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 ...

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 ...

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 was dreamed up as a universal typeface in 1957 and it’s still incredibly popular –you see it on everything from clever T-shirts to NYC subway signs. But there are all sorts of things ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Steve Hicks, the chief digital creative officer at McGarryBowen, wrote a thoughtful essay for Adweek about the way Helvetica — the typeface used ...

One of the few places the Helvetica font has failed to infiltrate over the past half-century is the graveyard – Roman typefaces such as Perpetua or Bembo tend to work better on headstones. But perhaps ...

A new line of watches by Mondaine is based upon Helvetica. Yes. The superstar Swiss typeface has become a Swiss timepiece. Deciding to use Helvetica for our new family of watches was more difficult ...

Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years. The Helvetica typeface ...

Helvetica is a tried and true typeface. It’s a testament to Swiss design culture, with its clarity, flexibility and outright perfection. This famous typeface is loved for countless reasons, including ...