Helvetica is celebrated and loathed for its ubiquity. Now, the 62-year-old font is getting a face lift for the digital age. Jim Davis/Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption ...

“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’s the typeface that greets you on your tax forms. It announces MBTA station stops. Its sans-serif letters glow in the night outside Target and CVS. In the world of typography, Helvetica is as ...

BMW owners, it's not your imagination. The words on the navigation screen are as they appear in BMW Type Light. The trademarked font is used cohesively in all official BMW-related matters — from ...

Monotype, one of the largest font companies in the world, owns Helvetica licensing, a font that originated in 1957. After 35 years, Charles Nix, Monotype director, ...

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monotype today introduced Helvetica Now Variable, offering over a million new Helvetica Now styles in one state-of-the-art font file.Helvetica Now Variable builds ...

Brittle, anemic Helvetica is simplynot a good choice as a default display font for Apple's operating system. That's why I'm pretty excited about this ...

Because without a signature font, you'll never be letter-perfect. ... "Helvetica," a documentary about one font's history, played to sold-out audiences when it came out last year.

The 'Godfather' of the Helvetica Font Dies. Published Feb 28, 2014 at 5:13 PM EST Updated Apr 22, 2014 at 4:52 PM EDT.

Helvetica has been Facebook's font of choice for a long time, but some keen-eyed users noticed a slight change while browsing their news feeds Friday. Facebook is testing out a new, thinner font ...