Fonts they are a-changing

[Dov Isaacs]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:57 AM
> To: Dov Isaacs; Guy K. Haas; Rene Stephenson
> Cc: framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Fonts they are a-changing
> 
> ....
> 
> . 'Is Helvetica different from Helvetica Neue and Neue 
> Helvetica?' Yes.
> 
> The Neue variants are a different font to the Helveticas. I 
> believe that Neue Helvetica is the Linotype variant, while 
> Helvetica Neue is the Adobe variant. I don't know how 
> different they are. I *do* know that recently acquiring a 
> Linotype Frutiger rather than a Monotype Frutiger involved me 
> in about an extra 100 hours' work.
> .... 


All the fonts with the name Helvetica or Helvetica Neue or
any combination of those words has its origin in the Linotype
type library. But despite the common heritage, there are 
tremendous differences in character sets, metrics, etc. from
one to another.

	- Dov