Cahier de Typographie – Helvetica Neue
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BA Practice Based Course
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2020
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Helvetica Neue is a sans-serif font designed in 1983, to revamp the cult-classic Helvetica, originally created by Max Miedinger.
The Neue version was instead developed by a Linotype subsidiary, called D. Stempel AG.
This new version of the font is characterized by a taller than usual x-height, for easier reading at distance, tight in-between letters spacing, narrow apertures, and brush strokes with very few, hard to notice modulations. The Neue variant has also heavier punctuation marks, increased spacing in the numbers and a generally unified set of heights and weights.
Storytelling:
Original BBC Travel article
by Eric Weiner, 18 July 2016
