I know that there are many of you out there with Macs, and I wanted to ask you guys a simple question, designer to designer. Could someone send me Helvetica? I need Helvetica, Helvetica Bold, Helvetica Neue (the thin version) and, if this isn't too much, a regular Helvetica Neue. I had it on my old hard-drive, but I switched to a new one, and I lost many of the files I had. If you can help, let me know, I can give you my email.
How do fonts work as far as if I want to display Helvetica on my website but it's not installed on the user's computer? Could I use @font-face to display it?
How come macs come standard with Helvetica but not PCs.
Also whats the legality of the above link, just wondering out of curiosity because I thought it's copyrighted or something?
After a bit more research, Apple pay Haas for a license to use Helvetica on Mac's I will remove that link to be safe I thought it would have been in the public domain due to it's age
Bold and Neue are a lot younger and definitely not free
I'd love to use those examples, but the problem is, I bought it in the past, and I recently switched to a new hard-drive. In that process, I lost my installed fonts. Among them were those fonts. I don't remember how I acquired them, but I had them in my possession. I'm now asking kindly if anyone could privately send them to me via email. If possible, I just regular, and bold. thanks for your comments though.
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Couldn't find a free Bold or Neue
How come macs come standard with Helvetica but not PCs.
Also whats the legality of the above link, just wondering out of curiosity because I thought it's copyrighted or something?
I will remove that link to be safe
I thought it would have been in the public domain due to it's age
Bold and Neue are a lot younger and definitely not free
As for @font-face
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/02/the-font-face-rule-revisited-and-useful-tricks/
In regards to displaying fonts on the web, you can do so only if their license allows it (unless you use images, but that is a terrible idea).
http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select
https://typekit.com/
Helvetica is overrated anyway :P :P