Helvetica Font

**Poidy** · 17 June 2009, 06:11 AM

I had the Helvetica on my computers for years and then I lost it. I am pretty sure it is one of the base fonts you get with the installation of the windows operating system but i can not find it. Can anyone help me!

**steve.ledger** · 17 June 2009, 06:19 AM

Grab your Windows disc and follow these steps

How to install or remove a font in Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960

**Xcellent** · 17 June 2009, 06:22 AM

The closest to Helvetica you get for free is Arial which comes by default with windows.

If you had the original Helvetica font on your computer, that would have been included in one of your software packages you had installed (my guess).

**steve.ledger** · 17 June 2009, 06:28 AM

Good point.

Fonts installed with XP
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm

Fonts installed with Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...t.aspx?PID=149

**Xcellent** · 17 June 2009, 06:45 AM

OT: test here if you can see a difference between Arial or Helvetica

**Poidy** · 17 June 2009, 07:08 AM

Thanks for the idea Sledger, i did look at the installed fonts in windows xp and didn't find it there but i do have the disks for older versions of windows that i can look in.

**Xcellent** · 17 June 2009, 07:25 AM

Safe your time, you won't find "Helvetica" on any Microsoft Windows Installation CD or disk. Microsoft never licensed the original "Helvetica".

The closest you get to Helvetica with any default Windows version is Arial.

You most probably had it on your system because of page maker or any other software program that installed Helvetica for you.

**ss-kalm** · 17 June 2009, 11:44 AM

Sledger,

Thanks for the list of fonts supplied with XP, they look very different from mine. There are lots of typeface names there I don't recognise. I'll try to find the extra's .....