Helvetica Font

Helvetica is a sans serif first issued as Neue Haas Grotesk in 1957 under Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann at the Swiss Haas Type Foundry. Linotype renamed it Helvetica in 1960 to give the design a more international identity; the name comes from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland. Credited to Miedinger and the Linotype Design Studio, the published family spans many weights and includes condensed, narrow, rounded, compressed, textbook, and Inserat styles.