Martin Majoor articulates well why Helvetica is hated by so many designers. While these updates are good and even necessary it doesn’t change the fact that Helvetica is hated by so many designers. Therefore it was a shrewd move for Monotype to create a Helvetica with different optical sizes, micro, body and headline. We now demand that the same typeface be used as headlines, body copy, footnotes all while remaining legible. At a base level, it makes sense to update Helvetica to work better with modern technology.įurthermore, our view of a type family and how a typeface should work has changed since 1983. Meaning that Helvetica currently isn’t optimized to be used on 21st-century computers, even though it is one of the most popular typefaces online. Which is needed, the previous Helvetica Neue was created in 1983 before open type in 1996. Helvetica Now is being billed by Monotype as the Helvetica for the modern age.
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