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#Helvetica neue light firefox license#

Harmonising with Helvetica (the font in the logo) Nice if the font has a little personality (Helvetica, for example, is very generic and does not make our "brand" more recognisable).

#Helvetica neue light firefox license#

Huge bonus points for a liberal or open source license.

Not too radical a deviation from Helvetica (using a serif as the primary font is likely not an option as it would blow up too many applications).

Looks good at small sizes (so we can use it for data tables and visualisations).

Consistent rendering across the many devices/browsers.

Support for foreign characters (You guessed it: I'm looking at ü).

A variety of weights and styles (light, ultra-light, bold, italic, etc.).

Here’s from the EMBL-EBI Web Guidelines Committee at the start of 2017: Feeding back in some recent conversation at the January Web Guidelines Committee and with our colleagues at EMBL want in future a font that has:

It’s not surprising, therefore, that an organic conversation began about what we need in a typeface. In short, we have a problem with our current typeface. This was the driving decision for Apple to move away from Helvetica Neue on iOS to their own typeface, San Francisco.Ĭonfusion between Helveticas: The many flavours Helvetica comes in causes confusion: Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica Neue pro, Helvetica rounded… Similarities between letterforms (1, l, i, ll, for example), and low contrast between the stroke weights in each letterform, make readability a problem.īrowser woes: Helvetica Neue doesn’t render well on Windows. Readability: The different weights of Helvetica aren’t the most successful when displaying on screen (not so shocking for a typeface from 1983). But not Helvetica Neue, so we’ve had buy licenses to use it on our many print products, websites, and service websites. Licensing: Many computers come bundled with Helvetica. It’s so familiar and ubiquitous that it is somewhat voiceless and utilitarian. Too popular: Helvetica has been used everywhere from the New York Transit Authority, to American Airlines, to Lufthansa. There are few fonts as iconic as the Helvetica family, but it also comes with baggage: We wanted to test whether this is the best and most sustainable choice for the organisation moving forward. We have been using Helvetica Neue as EMBL’s official typeface for some time now.