Qlassik Medium Helvetica Neue Bold CondensedQla

In all honesty, just ask the designer for the fonts. On the other hand, if your the designer then it matters more and OpenType tends to be more flexible, allowing more typesetting and finessing, alternates, ligatures, etc. If your just needing to print something submitted to you then all you need is the font the designer used. Is there some big difference between otf and ttf formats? Does the MacOS Helvetica Neue version come as otf or ttf? Which one is the most used? There are about 5 billion versions of every font made by random people available for free and then there are the originals, crafted by the foundry. You can turn on 'font substitution' but that lends itself to an entirely new set of problems, a major one being having to do typesetting everything from scratch again. For the long term problem, there's no solution really. Any artwork you receive from a designer should be packaged with the fonts they used so for your immediate problem it may be best to let the designer know you need the fonts.

I understand completely, it's a constant problem. Nimbus needs a few extra points to get an identical size match.It's not about being an 'authentic' file or having the original font bought from its founder, it's about avoiding a 'missing fonts' notice. Built in HN and Nimbus Sans are very similar in all respects but point size. NOT exploiting the Mac's built in 'NimbusSansNovusDBoldCondensed' at all) because it leads to a design that is more uniform across browsers. You can get it at for $20 (desktop) and $20 (web, 10k pageviews).

In fact, it is also derived from Helvetica. UPDATE: I discovered a much closer match to Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold is Nimbus Sans Novus D Condensed bold. Then if a Mac user loads your site they see Helvetica Neue, but if they're on another platform they see Franklin. In both cases you also get to download the font for your desktop so you can use it in Photoshop for comps.Ī very cheap compromise is to buy Franklin from fontspring and then use 'HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold' as the preferred font in your CSS.

/ : Buy a pretty close alternative like Nimbus Sans Novus D from MyFont ($160 for unlimited pageviews), or Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed, from (about $21.95, flat one time fee with unlimited pageviews).

You can download the font to your desktop with the most expensive plan (but if you're on a Mac you already have it).

Free (with a badge), $10/month for 250k pageviews and $100/month for 2.5M pageviews.

: License the real font as a webfont from.

In case anyone is still looking for Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold, you essentially have two options.

Qlassik Medium Helvetica Neue Bold CondensedQla