Neue Haas Grotesk Font

Max Miedinger designed the first Neue Haas Grotesk weights in 1957–1958 under Eduard Hoffmann’s direction at the Haas foundry. The contemporary digital family credits Christian Schwartz as well as Miedinger. Its relationship with Helvetica is historical, not a promise that all releases share identical metrics.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The linked listing is the Display branch. Inspect the intended Text or Display branch and the exact weight before matching an existing composition. Similar family names such as Helvetica, Helvetica Neue and Neue Haas Grotesk should not be treated as interchangeable file names.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Test a large identity heading and a small information block separately. Compare line breaks as well as letter shapes when evaluating a replacement. Arimo and Inter are independent grotesque comparisons available here; set the same words before deciding whether either suits the layout.

For independent comparisons, try Arimo and Inter. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Linotype to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Neue Haas Grotesk font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.