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Helvetica Font

Mentor ,
Sep 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023

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I downloaded Helvetica Bold font from this site. In sqare bracket it says that [Free Sans Bold]. The name added to Ps is FreeSans . Is there any way change this name to Helvetica Bold in Ps? or How to handle this type of  situation?

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Community Expert , Sep 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023

Helvetica isn't actually free. It can be purchased from Linotype via MyFonts.com here:

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/helvetica-font-linotype?tab=familyPackages&queryId=&eventName=Product%20Clicked&index=universal_search_data&objectIDs=5834499000&positions=3 

 

The Basic Family Pack should get you the essentials at $172.

 

The one you have is a free clone/ripoff. How much different it has to be from the original to avoid copyright issues I don't know.

 

Having Helvetica as the default syste

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Sep 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023

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Helvetica isn't actually free. It can be purchased from Linotype via MyFonts.com here:

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/helvetica-font-linotype?tab=familyPackages&queryId=&eventName=Pr... 

 

The Basic Family Pack should get you the essentials at $172.

 

The one you have is a free clone/ripoff. How much different it has to be from the original to avoid copyright issues I don't know.

 

Having Helvetica as the default system font (or even having it included at all) is the one thing I always envied Mac users. Is it still there in MacOS?

 

Great documentary if you can find it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film) 

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Mentor ,
Sep 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023

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Thanks for the information. There was a font site by Adobe to add in  Ps. I couldn't find out that again. Do you know the link?    

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