Indeed, in one 1973 competition to design new fonts, three of the 20 winners were decorative designs inspired by Helvetica. There is also a large maths and symbol set in each font (not complete maths typesetting support, but more than you'll get in most fonts). The landlady scolds her tenants, a deadbeat tanuki, and a gambler sparrow, for not paying their rent.

The family includes 16 fonts in 8 weights (ultra light, thin, light, regular, medium, bold, heavy, black) with complementary italics. As phototypesetting was soon replaced by desktop publishing and because of a legal dispute, the typeface rapidly disappeared from the market. In the digital period, Canadian type designer Ray Larabie has released several digital fonts based upon Helvetica. The studio manager was Wolfgang Schimpf, and his assistant was Reinhard Haus; the manager of the project was René Kerfante.The family includes eight fonts in eight weights and one width, without italics (25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85, 95). The hatless boy apologizes and says that he thought he was getting on the bus, but was actually getting on [some sort of pun; on with the times?

Florian Hardwig has described its display-oriented styles, with tight spacing, as more reminiscent of Helvetica as used in the 1970s from cold type than any official Helvetica digitisation. Helvetica Light was designed by Stempel's artistic director Erich Schultz-Anker, in conjunction with Arthur Ritzel. The rights to Helvetica are now held by Monotype Imaging, which acquired Linotype; the Neue Haas Grotesk digitisation (discussed below) was co-released with Font Bureau. A large number of variants of Helvetica were rapidly released to expand on its popularity, including new weights and languages. Zhukov and Kurbatov attempted to publish the typeface in 1964 but were rejected due to the font's being too closely associated with capitalism; this was one of the major factors as to why an official Cyrillic Helvetica, Pragmatica, would not be released in the Soviet bloc until perestroika in 1989.The MTA system is still rife with a proliferation of Helvetica-like fonts, including Arial, in addition to some old signs in Medium Standard, and a few anomalous signs in Helvetica Narrow. Neue Haas Grotesk Text is also available on Windows 10 via "Pan-European Supplemental Fonts", [123] but this release includes static fonts instead of variable fonts. Arama-san visits a jinja (Shinto shrine) to get her fortune told and receives a slip with "Excellent luck" written on it. In an intense and dramatic scene, a man has bought a bag of tongari corns (Japanese Bugles, the cone-shaped corn chips) and laments that he can't fit them on his fingertips anymore.

Intending to match the success of Univers, Arthur Ritzel of Stempel redesigned Neue Haas Grotesk into a larger family.

If you opted to purchase Compugraphic, AM, or Alphatype typesetting equipment, you couldn't get Helvetica.