Member Arr… Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Does anyone know if its possible to find helvetica or something very similar that will work in arabic, hebrew, greek and such like. Basically languages that dont use english letters for the alphabet? Russian and greek too. Unfortunately my knowledge of opentype/cycrillic fonts is minimal (if indeed that is relevant) so any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Linotype.com - "Helvetica World" or somesuch Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Linkie... http://www.linotype.com/48344/helveticaworld-family.html Link to comment
Member Joh… Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 The Helvetica World fonts, to which Si links, should meet all your needs except perhaps Arabic. The fonts do contain Arabic support, but the design of the Arabic is not harmonised to Helvetica in the way that the other scripts are (it is a revised version of the Yakout simplified Arabic design). Also, in order to fit the Arabic into the vertical metrics of the existing Latin design, without compromising backwards compatibility or clipping the Arabic descenders, the Arabic has a raised baseline. If you need Arabic as well as the other scripts, I would recommend getting Helvetica World for everything else but using another font for the Arabic. Link to comment
Member Arr… Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 Great, thanks alot for your help guys, much appreciated. Link to comment
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Member Tom… Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 The ordinary Helvetica font on my Mac OS X includes support for Greek and Cyrillic. Link to comment
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