Can anyone identify this font?

[iamtheblues]

Attached is a screenshot from the http://wegraphics.net/blog/ page, which I have compared to helvetica neue. You will notice that the mystery font has a round "o".
Also the x height of the Helvetica letters is constant, whereas the mystery font has variations (notice the "v" between the "o" and the "e" - there are others).
@ Rik, if you press Ctrl + mouse scroll up on the page, (link above) it will magnify in your browser.
Bob.

[mwenz]

looks like you are using a condensed version of helvetica neue. in your example.

From the web page style sheet:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;

i have neue helvetica [versus helvetica neue] and for me arial is what is displayed.

take care, mike

[iamtheblues]

Take a look at the body text on this site. The uneven x-height of the body text seems to be more pronounced here.
Please someone tell me that you are seeing what I am seeing on this site! Any ideas, anyone?
Bob.

[angelize]

On the site I right clicked on the side of the screen (on the site background) from the list I chose view page source and a new page opens that shows the source code for the page near the top is the css that shows a link for fonts clicking this will open another page that lists all the embedded fonts used in the site. The body text you are after is as I thought Helvetica Neue.

The bad news is it is not cheap. Helvetica Neue

[iamtheblues]

Thanks Mike and Frances for the help you have given me. But I am still left with what I hope will not become one of life's little mysteries. Would anyone be able to explain to me why, when I look at examples of Helvetica Neue on MyFonts it looks like the attached, which, to my eye in no way resembles what is on the web page I linked to in my previous post. Either I am going mad, or they are not similar, let alone identical. Could it be explained in words of one syllable why this should be so, and, more importantly, what is the font that I'm actually seeing that is so different to Helvetica Neue? A good start would be for someone to confirm that the example posted shows actual differences between the x-heights of the vowels and certain characters in the mystery font in question and it is not just a figment of my tortured imagination.
Bob.

[angelize]

Hi Bob, I had a close up look at the Moustache Brewing site and the screen grab you posted and I what I see is very different to what you have in your screen grab which leads me to think that the issue could be related to your computers screen resolution do you by any chance have it set higher than 96dpi?

Here is what I see on the brewing site

[jon404]

If you look at the source code on the Moustache site, it refers to a style sheet at http://d297h9he240fqh.cloudfront.net...oject_page.css
...and, in the style sheet, there's a 'body' statement -- body{font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif} -- that says, hey, folks, if you don't have Helvetica Neue, then show Helvetica; if you don't have Helvetica, then show Arial, and, if you don't have Arial, then show whatever your browser uses as a default sans-serif font.

Does this help? On my netbook, I see Arial, not having Helvetica Neue installed, and, being Windows, having Arial instead of Helvetica.

P.S. Four years later, am still put off Helvetica Neue -- we all had to use it at last job on a cellphone screen low-level design project, some idiot had specified it, and the company had to buy a zillion copies, when we could have used Arial Narrow. This wasn't highly graphical work, it was just blocking out where the different controls would go, and what would happen when keys were pressed. Aarghh!

[wizard509]

I see the same as Frances.

[Gare]

When you look at web pages, it's not just font substitution that makes a page non-standard.

It's the browser you're using and also the point size to which the font is being rendered to screen that determines its appearance to you.

A prime example I can share is on the Xara Xone. We use, for example, a typeface called "Latin Small", and because there is no hinting to the typeface, it doesn't look as good on the Web as it does on a page in Xara or in InDesign.

So there are at least three wild cards I can think of that can make Helvetica Neue look different to different users. By the way, the Helvetica Neue family has a reputation as the New Love for Macintosh users, and the family just is a nightmare to deploy in Windows 7. Mactintosh users view the font very differently than Windows users.

My Best,

Gary