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Helvetica Now. — A brand new, redesigned Helvetica
Helvetica® Now is a new chapter in the story of perhaps the best-known typeface of all time. Available in three optical sizes - Micro, Text, and Display - every character in Helvetica Now has been redrawn and refit; with a variety of useful alternates added.
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Would be nice to see more realistic examples of this being used in actual context rather than the cool and glitzy but impractical examples in the marketing content. Also, a clearer breakdown of the differences between this and the previous Helvetica would be helpful too.
@johnbhiggins The extended video has sort of a comparison https://youtu.be/2q4G5rhbIUM?t=320
Cool landing page! Is there no support for Greek though? I only see 4 Greek characters (those used in math equations) and nothing else. No Cyrillic either?
I’m not a designer really, but I have a feeling that Monotype is a bit too late with this. Whoever wanted to use a "better" version of Helvetica have already adopted Neue Haas Grotesk. Micro is good though.
@paul_danyliuk And a self-hosted unlimited/perpetual web license of Neue Haas Grotesk is only $377,000 for a savings of $63,000!
@jeffjwall for the likes of Bloomberg that doesn’t seem to be a problem :)
But yeah, NHG is hella expensive even for non-perpetual licenses. It looks so perfect tho…
What fresh hell is this? I mean, the uppercase R and G (for example) are THE reason I use Helevtica (Neue) – If I wanted something like the alternate versions, there are dozens of fonts already there.
And frankly, the alternatives of lower-case f and r shown at some point look ugly as sin – the r appears to be a different weight than the rest of the word, and the f seems to throw off the kerning (the other big reason Helvetica (Neue) is used).
Reacher