A revision and expansion of Helvetica. Known also as Helvetica Neue from an effort to make the family easy to find in font menus. See Helvetica Condensed for the condensed styles.

In 1982 Linotype set out to revise and systematize the hodgepodge of fonts Helvetica had become over years. Adopting a numeric naming system from the former competitor typeface, Univers, styles and weights were coordinated and complemented. The height of capitals and lower case were aligned throughout the family. Yet the wish for regularization led to new compromises: condensed and expanded styles required squarer forms, which had to be adopted for the normal width, again sacrificing some of the personality of the rounder original.” — Indra Kupferschmid