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 ...

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, ...

Typeface company Monotype has overhauled the Helvetica font over 60 years after it was first created to give it a fresh new look for the 21st century. Spearheaded by the company's type director ...

“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.

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 ...

Helvetica was also not the most versatile font in the toolbox, admits Nix. Now, he says, that's all changed. "Helvetica used to not be able to be used for captions and small text because it was a ...

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.

Helvetica font: PostScript vs. TrueType issuesTed Gordon writes: "Adding PostScript fonts to OS X can cause problems, especially with the Helvetica font as well as other fonts that also have a ...

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's overhaul involved rounding the style of characters in the typeface Helvetica has become a go-to font in recent decades – the typeface had its own documentary released in 2007.