Helvetica™ Neue Std

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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements

Windows®

Intel® Pentium,® Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo processor
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista™
16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may also be installed under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 if you install Adobe Type Manager® (ATM™) Light 4.1 on your system. If using a PostScript® printer on Windows 98/ME, AdobePS™ printer driver 4.3 or later is recommended. If using a PostScript printer on Windows NT 4.0, AdobePS printer driver 5.1.2 or later is recommended.

Macintosh

PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X
16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
If using a PostScript printer, the latest AdobePS printer driver is recommended.
Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may be installed under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2 with ATM Light 4.6, and under Classic mode in Mac OS X with ATM Light 4.6.2.

Font installation

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Helvetica grew in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and more versions of the family were introduced. This led to vast confusion: the same weight is often referred to by two different names, design features often vary from one face to another, and so on. In the early 1980s, Linotype remedied this situation by redrawing the entire Helvetica family. Differences in alignment were corrected, subtle features were made consistent from one face to another, and all the weights and widths were designed to work together as one family. This new drawing is called Neue Helvetica (German for New Helvetica), and incorporates an easy-to-use numbering system to identify various styles and weights.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

HelveticaNeueLT Std
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Ext
HelveticaNeueLT Std Bold Outln
HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Ext
HelveticaNeueLT Std ExtBlk Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Ext
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Ext
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Ext
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Cn
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Ext

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

Menu Name	plus Style Option...	selects this font
HelveticaNeueLT Std	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 55 Roman
HelveticaNeueLT Std	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 56 Italic
HelveticaNeueLT Std	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 75 Bold
HelveticaNeueLT Std	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 76 Bold Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 95 Black
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 96 Black Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 97 Black Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 97 Black Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 93 Black Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Blk Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 93 Black Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Bold Outln	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 75 Bold Outline

HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 57 Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 57 Condensed Oblique
HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 77 Bold Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 77 Bold Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 53 Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 53 Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std ExtBlk Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 107 Extra Black Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std ExtBlk Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 107 Extra Black Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 73 Bold Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 73 Bold Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 45 Light
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 46 Light Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 47 Light Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 47 Light Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 43 Light Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 43 Light Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Med	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 65 Medium
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 66 Medium Italic
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 85 Heavy
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 86 Heavy Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 67 Medium Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 67 Medium Condensed Oblique
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Cn	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 87 Heavy Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Cn	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 87 Heavy Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 63 Medium Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 63 Medium Extended Oblique
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Ext	Bold	Helvetica Neue LT Std 83 Heavy Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Med Ext	Bold, Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 83 Heavy Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 35 Thin
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 36 Thin Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 37 Thin Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 37 Thin Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 33 Thin Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std Thin Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 33 Thin Extended Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 25 Ultra Light
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 26 Ultra Light Italic

HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Cn	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 27 Ultra Light Condensed
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Cn	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 27 Ultra Light Condensed Oblique

HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Ext	[none]	Helvetica Neue LT Std 23 Ultra Light Extended
HelveticaNeueLT Std UltLt Ext	Italic	Helvetica Neue LT Std 23 Ultra Light Extended Oblique

On the Mac OS, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or InDesign®.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Helvetica Neue LT Std: version 2.100 created on Wed Mar 23 16:05:41 2011.

version 2.100 created 2011/03/23

Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.

version 2.070 created 2009/11/23

Corrected font menu names in name table for Mac platform names. Name
ID's 1,2 16 and 17 are now written following the same rules as the
Windows platform names. Previous releases put the Preferred Name
and Style in Mac platform name ID 1 and 2, and did not write name ID
16 and 17, for legacy issues with old Mac OS versions.

version 2.060 created 2009/07/28

Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.035 created 2007/08/16

Release for FontFolio 11
Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
Add default language system.
OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
First build and release of basic ISOAdobe2 fonts for Library Revision. This is one of a set of fonts which have identical glyph sets and layout features. The following changes were made:
Removed a superfluous '@FIGURES' class.
Removed contextual marks from 'frac' feature, making it a regular ligature substitution.
Duplicated ordfeminine as a.superior, ordmasculine as o.superior.
Simplified 'ordn' feature. Removed context and changed to substitute a->a.superior and o->o.superior.
Added 'ordn' to 'aalt'.
Added a.superior and o.superior to 'sups'.
Renamed several working names in the alias file to match 'font.pfa' names and ensure their ordering in the font.

version 1.047 created 2003/05/15

First release as OpenType.

Known issues

Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.

Customer care

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Other resources

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