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Max Miedinger, Swiss typeface designer, created Helvetica (died 1980)
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Max Miedinger
Swiss type designer (1910–1980)
Max Miedinger was a Swiss typeface designer, best known for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved immediate global success.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Helvetica
Neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface
Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)