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Helvetica

BBC News'/Al Jazeera's font (January 2014)

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HarryB 26 January 2014 10:15am

Is there a free version of the Helvetica font? If anyone knows of anything please let me know by PM or on his thread.

Thank you very much!

AxG 26 January 2014 10:44am

Swiss 721 BT is about as close to Helvetica as possible.

HarryB 26 January 2014 11:31am

Is there a free link to this?

dosxuk 26 January 2014 2:43pm

Arial is pretty much a helvetica clone, to the point of lawsuits. And while not free, also one of the most widely distributed fonts on the planet.

tweedledum 26 January 2014 4:11pm

Helvetica Neue can be dowloaded free if that hel

dosxuk 26 January 2014 4:46pm

That's not a free font either - in fact the prices are eye watering, so I'm not sure where is letting you download it for free legitimately.

DanielK 26 January 2014 4:57pm

To clarify, Helvetica Neue is the actual BBC News graphics font.

Bail Moderator 26 January 2014 9:40pm

Not that I condone such things but a brief very Google search answers the initial posters question...

http://bit.ly/1dH3Cdq