Illustrator equivilent of Helvetica

[James Burke]

Looking for Illustrator's equivilent of Helvetica...anybody know?

After watching the movie "Helvetica"...I found a possible clue, perhaps. I'm going to take a wild guess and say "Switzerland".


Thanks,

Jim

 

[anotherdog]

...helvetica?

Do you mean fonts that ship with illustrator?

 

[James Burke]

Do you mean fonts that ship with illustrator?

Yep. SignLab calls it "Heavy". Just wondering if AI calls it something else.

 

[anotherdog]

Here is the list of CS4 fonts:
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/fontinstall/cs4installedfonts.html

 

[mikey-Oh]

my guess is the nueva

 

[J Hill Designs]

switzerland

 

[anotherdog]

Switzerland was decades ago. it was renamed Helvetica in the 60's.
It was also made into one of the first computer fonts...I think by bitstream (Swiss 721) in the early 80's then was used as the base for Ariel font in 82.

It could be Swiss 721 you are thinking of...but since it's bitstream I doubt Adobe would include it.

Nueva is a serif font so it couldn't be used for helvetica.