Your font stack could be something like font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif and you'd be covering the most common devices and operating systems (except for Android which I think doesn't come with any of those two font families). Unfortunately Arial Narrow isn't included in iOS but, since both Helvetica and Helvetica Neue come pre-installed in all Apple devices, you wouldn't have to worry too much about it. It comes pre-installed in (almost?) every Windows version and also Apple devices. Unless you need something that looks almost exactly like Helvetica, Arial might be an option you should consider. Roboto follows this same rule with the exception of a few characters: %, and () all end on diagonals.īoth Helvetica Neue and Roboto have Condensed and Monospaced styles in their family, making Roboto a strong alternative to the famous Helvetica Neue.Everyone's been giving you names of fonts that look similar to Helvetica (some more than others) but depending on what kind of project it is that you're working on you might not need any of those. Helvetica Neue’s characters always have vertical or horizontal terminals on their strokes, never diagonal, which you can see below in the second image. Stempel AG and released 26 years later in 1983 as Helvetica Neue. Helvetica Neue (pronounced NOY-YA), the longtime classic, is the newer, younger brother of Helvetica. For this reason, we have purposefully chosen typefaces with more than 3 weights in their family to maximize utility. Regular and bold weights are necessary matching italics are even better. When choosing a typeface for a project, it’s important that it have a variety of styles to choose from. The alternatives chosen below have a similar tone and/or aesthetic to their higher-end counterpart, but of course there may be tradeoffs and won’t be exact matches. Google fonts has provided a strong platform with some good alternatives to popular fonts. But when it comes to “free fonts” it isn’t like the old days. 1, valuable type isn’t cheap and with good reason. Chase isn’t watching you or anything.Īs we learned in Pt.
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