Released as Neue Haas Grotesk and renamed Helvetica, Latin for Swiss, in 1960 to sell abroad. It became the default voice of corporate modernism, from subway signs to tax forms.
Download Inter, free ↗Google FontsHelvetica itself is licensed. Inter is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in InterLoading the face
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Inter in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Inter.
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Tip. Headline in Inter, standing in for Helvetica, body copy in Inter. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Inter 700
72pxHelvetica
48pxHelvetica
32pxHelvetica
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Inter
Why Inter. Neutral grotesque with the same closed apertures and even colour; drawn for screens rather than metal. Helvetica itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Inter, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Inter, on its own. A neutral UI grotesque drawn for screens: tall x-height, closed apertures, no opinions.
If Helvetica is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.