Helvetica Neue for Web? 88 Responses

Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: Jun 16, 12, 9:14 p.m.

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• newuser

  What's the easiest / cheapest way to get specifically "Helvetica Neue" as live type for one page of a website?

  What service do you recommend?

  Thanks in advance.

  Jun 16, 12, 9:14 p.m. – Permalink

• Nathan_Adams

  Well, all Macs have it, so the smartest would be to just do your font stack as font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif. Letting windows fallback to Arial (which, despite being Arial, will be better hinted on Windows than Helvetica would be, particularly for body copy)

  If you must have Helvetica Neue in all instances, then fonts.com have it. http://www.fonts.com/font/linoty…

  • < Absolutely this.– Continuity

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 9:38 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  embed them... gotta generate them first: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/font…

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 10:27 p.m. – Permalink

• newuser

  All macs have Neue?

  • never trust this... look into embedding fonts through fontssquirrel... you'll get a packet w/directions (I believe)– PonyBoy1/2

    Yes they all have it. It's part of the system apps– monospaced2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 10:37 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  Read: http://randsco.com/index.php/200…

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 10:42 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  wait... you said 'live type'... you're not talking about this: http://www.apple.com/support/liv… ... are you?

  • wait... no... you can't be talking about this... ... if you want to embed fonts... use that fontsquirrel kit– PonyBoy

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 10:47 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit2

  I would go with NathanAdams said...specify Helvetica Neue with Helvetica and Arial as a fallback. I've never seen any site embed Helvetica as a web font.

  If you must embed, you'll probably need to purchase the webfont. Fontsquirrel will generate the files you need, but not the license. Would def not use that for a client project.

  • well... yeah... buy the font... but why not just embed and be safe?– PonyBoy1/4

    i thought this has become kinda 'standard'...– PonyBoy2/4

    You'd need to buy the webfont version...but I just think it's overkill in this case– ukit23/4

    fairNuff– PonyBoy4/4

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 11:13 p.m. – Permalink

• newuser

  Font squirrel is legal and free?

  • yeah... they leave it to you to make sure you purchase the rights...– PonyBoy1/2

    Cool– newuser2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 11:58 p.m. – Permalink

• Nathan_Adams

  Most foundries don't allow for self-hosting (or they may require an additional licence to do so), which is what the Font Squirrel route entails. Check that they explicitly allow it (or email them and ask). Otherwise, stick with one of the font-hosting services.

  

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  Dog-earJun 17, 12, 5:39 a.m. – Permalink