Apple is known for sleek, minimalist design, from its products to its branding. We've already recapped the Apple logo history ...

Helvetica Neue has made us a bit spoiled in that regard ... Hunt, Source Sans Pro is the ultimate corporate-style sans-serif web font. It comes in a whopping 12 different styles with weights ...

Helvetica began life in 1957 as Neue Haas Grotesk ... but they still demand attention in a sans serif face; c, e, and s each have straight horizontal endings; the i and j have square dots.

Helvetica then, Helvetica Now Before there was Helvetica, there was Neue Haas Grotesk. Created in 1957, the typeface sprung from the mind of Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffman.

Mike Parker who helped popularise Helvetica died this week ... placing great importance on the use of sans-serif typefaces. He taught that type loses its purpose when it loses its communicative ...