Helvetica Now Variable

• Google Fonts

  491 17,611 9.9 HTML

  Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts

  

Well by gosh, I am old enough to remember Adobe Multiple Masters…

https://blog.typekit.com/2014/07/30/the-adobe-originals-silv...

…a technology which went absolutely nowhere.

Makes me glad to see Helvetica is now available as variable, as well as a non-trivial number of open-source fonts.

https://fonts.google.com/?vfonly=true&sort=popularity

(Still waiting for Roboto, though. Slab and mono are there, the main sans isn’t yet, which is too bad.)

• source-serif

  3 2,131 3.0 CSS

  Typeface for setting text in many sizes, weights, and languages. Designed to complement Source Sans.

  

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• source-sans

  6 3,409 4.1 CSS

  Sans serif font family for user interface environments

  

• source-code-pro

  21 19,628 5.7 CSS

  Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments

  

• plex

  25 9,318 6.7 CSS

  The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.

  

Nice!

However, I prefer IBM Plex[1], and it has the advantage of being open-source project!

[1] https://github.com/IBM/plex

• urw-base35-fonts

  6 89 0.0

  Repo for URW++ base 35 font set

  

If you want to use Helvetica, you can use the FOSS Nimbus Sans. It's literally a reimplementation of PostScript Helvetica.

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts

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