About Neue Haas Grotesk Font Free Download

Neue Haas Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface that was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger. The typeface is named after its creator. It is a highly readable typeface that is often used for body text. Neue Haas Grotesk has a large x-height and wide proportions, which makes it easy to read at small sizes. The typeface has a neutral tone and is suitable for.

A wide range of applications. In 1957-1958, Max Miedinger designed the first weights of Neue Haas Grotesk for the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei in Switzerland, with art direction by the company’s principal, Eduard Hoffmann. Neue Haas Grotesk was created.

As an answer to the British and German grotesques that had become popular thanks to the success of functionalist Swiss typography. The typeface was soon revised and released as Helvetica by Linotype AG.As Neue Haas Grotesk had to be adapted to work on.

Linotype’s hot metal linecasters, Linotype Helvetica was in some ways a radically transformed version of the original. For instance, the matrices for Regular and Bold had to be of equal widths, so the Bold was redrawn at a considerably narrower proportion.

During the transition from metal to phototypesetting, Helvetica underwent additional modifications. In the 1980s, Neue Helvetica was produced as a rationalized, standardized version.For Christian Schwartz, the assignment to design a digital revival of.

Neue Haas Grotesk was an opportunity to set history straight. “Much of the warm personality of Miedinger’s shapes was lost along the way. So rather than trying to rethink Helvetica or improve on current digital versions, this was more of a restoration.

Project: bringing Miedinger’s original Neue Haas Grotesk back to life with as much fidelity to his original shapes and spacing as possible (albeit with the addition of kerning, an expensive luxury in handset type).”Schwartz’s revival was originally commissioned.

In 2004 by Mark Porter for the redesign of The Guardian, but it wasn’t used. Schwartz completed the family in 2010 for Richard Turley at Bloomberg Businessweek. Its thinnest weight was designed by Berton Hasebe.

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