Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
Helvetica Now
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.
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.
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.
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.
same classification
A grotesque family reminiscent of late-nineteenth-century American types; similar neutrality, slightly wider and squarer.
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