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Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype

Helvetica Now

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Helvetica Now is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 96 fonts: $548.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.

The name above is set in a fallback face. Helvetica Now is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Max Miedinger, Charles Nix, Monotype Design Studio, Friedrich Althausen, Malou Verlomme, Jan Hendrik Weber, Emilios Theofanous
Released
2019
Styles
96
Classification
Sans serif
Price
Complete family of 96 fonts: $548.99 USD (Individual Styles from $42.99 USD)as printed, read 2026-09-05

Monotype's 2019 redrawing of every Helvetica glyph in three optical sizes (Micro, Text, Display) and two widths, 96 fonts in all; the Micro sizes address small-size legibility that Helvetica long lacked.

Free alternatives to Helvetica Now

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Helvetica Now is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.

InterSans serif

commonly substituted

A screen-first neo-grotesque with a tall x-height; the usual free stand-in for Helvetica in interface work, though its shapes are plainer and its spacing looser.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Roboto webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto.

RobotoSans serif

commonly substituted

Neo-grotesque skeleton with open, slightly geometric curves; widely used in place of Helvetica on Android and the web, but warmer and less uniform in rhythm.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.

Work SansSans serif

same classification

Based loosely on early grotesques; matches the closed-aperture grotesque feel at text sizes, with more quirks in the extreme weights.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.

ArchivoSans serif

same classification

A grotesque family reminiscent of late-nineteenth-century American types; similar neutrality, slightly wider and squarer.

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