This family is much smaller in terms of its number of fonts, but each font makes up for this in terms of language support. At the beginning of the 21st Century, Linotype again released an updated design of Helvetica, the Helvetica World typeface family. Stempel AG and Linotype re-designed and digitized Neue Helvetica and updated it into a cohesive font family. Over the years, the Helvetica family was expanded to include many different weights, but these were not as well coordinated with each other as they might have been. In 1960 the name was changed to Helvetica (an adaptation of Helvetia", the Latin name for Switzerland). The original typeface was called Neue Haas Grotesk, and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Switzerland.
It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world.
All Bananas fonts come with a full glyph complement supporting the majority of Latin languages, as well as five sets of figures, automatic fractions, quite a few ligatures, biform/unicase shapes and other stylistic alternates. The entire development process happened in a highly precise interpolative environment. Then a few Dave West designs informed the design development and weighting process, before narrow and wide takes were sketched out and included in the family. Headliners’ Catalina and its very similar cousin, Letter Graphics’ Carmel, served as initial study points. Rather than being based on a single design, Bananas was sourced from multiple American film era faces, all from 1950s and 1960s, when the casual sans genre was at its popular peak. So we’re quite excited to issue Bananas, a fun sans serif family in 6 weights and 3 widths that can be used anywhere your designer’s imagination can take you. We figured it was high time for the casual sans to adapt to 21st century technology, gain more versatility, and become as much fun to use as the emotions it triggers. The casual sans is the natural high pill of typesetting. Fun, bouncy, playful, and highly exciting, the casual sans serif is now all over game packaging, film and animation titles, book covers, food boxes, concert posters, and pretty much everywhere design aims to induce excitement about a product or an event. The ongoing saga of this (still as popular as ever) sub-genre dates back to the maturity of the Industrial Age and early Hollywood film titling, runs through the prosperous times of interwar print publications, sees mass flourishing during the various media propagations of the film type era, and solidifies itself as arguably the most common design element in the latter years of the century. In the history of 20th century graphic arts, the evolution of the informal sans serif has been a uniquely American phenomenon. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor/application. Ragnala is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design special software. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a supporting program such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version. Add to your most creative ideas and see how they make it happen! Ragnala includes OpenType style alternatives, ligatures, and International support for most Western Languages. Hand-drawn design elements allow you to create many beautiful typographic designs in an instant such as branding, web and editorial designs, prints, crafts, quotes, It's great for logo types, wedding invitations, romantic cards, labels, packaging, name spelling and other. Ragnala features varied baselines, smooth lines, beautiful glyphs, and stunning alternatives. It has a beautifully balanced character, goes well with many designs. Ragnala is a smooth, elegant and flowing handwritten font.