Although this does require more work in terms of migration, it does avoid incompatibility problems. Note that most font vendors (including Adobe) have slightly different names for the OpenType versions of the fonts. For Adobe applications, there are obviously many benefits in terms of base character sets as well as built-in support for ligatures, alternatives (swashes, small caps, lower case numerals, superscripts, subscripts, etc.), etc. The original typeface was called Neue Haas Grotesk, and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haassche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Switzerland. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. What is true is that many other applications, especially Microsoft Office under Windows, no longer support Type 1 fonts.Īs such, if you are using non-Adobe applications, it would be very prudent to migrate to OpenType fonts as soon as possible. Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. This includes Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and FrameMaker.īoth MacOS and Windows at the operating system level do continue to support Type 1 fonts although you must remember that MacOS Type 1 fonts have a very different file format than those used on Windows. To be very clear, all Adobe products that have supported Type 1 fonts continue to support Type 1 fonts.
