Latest from the WhatFontIsHelp your fellow font-seekers if you think you can recognize the font. Earn some good karma by doing it:-)Yet sometimes the images are very complex, so other users need a bit of help.If you recognize the font from the samples posted here don't be shy and help a fellow designer.Thousands of designers (famous or not) use the image font detection system to find a font or similar free fonts from an image. Although we have the largest database of fonts, the search for a font from an image gets mixed results like the image above.

1. Ars Type

Ars Type

Helvetica is a tried and true typeface. It’s a testament to Swiss design culture, with its clarity, flexibility and outright perfection. This famous typeface is loved for countless reasons, including its ability to take on any feeling, emotion or imagery, which it can do simply because it has no personality of its own.Helvetica deserves our utmost respect, but there’s a problem with Helvetica that needs calling out: too many designers are permanently stuck on it, and that’s a disservice to every other sans-serif typeface out there. And so, to help you begin exploring the endless alternatives that exist in the world of type, an independent online compendium for Typography, has teamed up with TNW to create this list 30 must-see Helvetica alternatives: 1. 23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30About this listWhile we were at it, we also spent a little time talking with Typecache cofounder Taro Yumiba to learn more about the site, and how this list came to be: HW: Why did you create this list of alternatives?Yumiba: Obviously Helvetica is overused and we think designers are constantly looking for alternative typefaces to replace it. However, I am not surprised to hear that designers often give up on finding one and just go for Helvetica.

It is almost becoming a default or a given option as a San Serif font. We think that finding a good typeface is part of the designers’ job, and through the list, we would like our fellow designers to explore other options so that they can start embracing all typefaces. HW: What can these fonts offer that Helvetica doesn’t?Yumiba: Each face is different. There are so many different characteristics to the shapes of letters, too.

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We cannot describe every single difference of those alternatives, but there are many better typefaces than Helvetica, so why not try using them? (Don’t get me wrong Helvetica is not bad.) HW: Should designers balance the use of highly popular fonts with lesser known ones for variation?Yumiba: I don’t think it is necessary, but I would rather see designers that try lesser known fonts than ones that just stick to whatever popular typefaces is out there. However, the bottom line is that it’s all about choosing and using a typeface that works best in the context where it is used. That makes a great difference.

HW: Lastly, could you tell us a little bit about Typecache?Yumiba: There are many great type foundries around the world. It has been really difficult to keep up with the activities of every single one of themso why not collect their information and make an online compendium?This is how we started the project. As typographic literacy grows, the site will hopefully be a useful resource for designers, art directors and type enthusiasts.For more, check out Typecache’s complete “font cluster” of — there are 90 total alternatives! The team has created an impressive, as well.➤Read next.