Helvetica Neue

Neue Helvetica (1983)

Neue Helvetica (German for "New Helvetica"; German pronunciation:), known as Helvetica Neue in some digital releases, is a 1983 reworking of the typeface. The redesign brought greater consistency: all weights were given the same cap height, the lowercase was optically matched across the family, and the condensed and extended styles, which had originally come from other typefaces, were brought into line with the rest. A new system of character widths let letters such as the 'M' and the figures be drawn wider, and punctuation was made heavier so that it would reproduce well in phototypesetting. Like Univers, it uses a numbering system to identify its weights and widths, and it was issued in nine weights across four widths: normal, condensed, compressed and extended.