4/1/2024 0 Comments Helvetica now guardianCharles Nix, says the typeface needed to evolve to stay relevant in digital contexts. Monotype Imaging Holdings – the world’s largest type company, which owns the licensing rights – undertook a five-year design process to update all of Helvetica’s characters. But the font could be about to change, with Helvetica Now: a redesign to help it survive in the internet age. Originally developed by the Swiss designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann in 1957, the font has been the subject of a MoMA exhibition and a documentary, and was the typeface of choice for many designers, among them Hedi Slimane. I love it and hate it at the same time,” says Jop van Bennekom, the creative director and co-founder of Fantastic Man magazine. Helvetica Now: There aren’t many typefaces as well-known or divisive as Helvetica.
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