Helvetica Neue LT Pro Font Family

Helvetica Neue LT Pro Font Family was originally called Neue Haas Grotesk and was designed in 1957 by typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, the president of the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Basel, Switzerland. Miedinger and Hoffmann set out to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage – and in doing so, ended up designing one of the most popular typefaces of the mid-20th century. Soon after its release, in 1960 when the typeface was licensed by Linotype, the typeface was renamed Helvetica. An adaptation of “Helvetia” (Latin name of Switzerland) chosen to capitalize on Switzerland’s reputation as a center of ultra-modern graphic design.

Over the years the typeface has been updated with many weights, styles, and sizes as well as matching designs in wide non-Latin alphabets and Cyrillic. It comes in 34 different font weights, with 20 weights being available in Central European versions, supporting the languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Now also commonly known as Neue Helvetica is a reworking of the typeface made in 1983 with a more structurally unified set of heights and widths, as well as improved legibility, heavier punctuation marks, and increased spacing in numbers.

Nowadays Helvetica is an extremely popular type choice for commercial use, as brands such as BMW, General Motors, Kawasaki, Knoll, Kroger, Lufthansa, Motorola, Nestlé, Skype, Microsoft, and Apple have utilized its versatility. Helvetica is widely used by the U.S. government, as well as NASA, the Canadian government, the European Union, New York City and Madrid Metro, only naming a few examples of the authorities or governmental entities that have relied on the popular typeface.