: 'Helvetica Neue' webfont I am trying to figure out where do all sites that use the 'Helvetica Neue' font get it from. There are certainly too many sites using it for it not to be free. But

@Sent6035632

If you want a Google web font, the closest match to Helvetica Neue (closer than Arial) is Arimo. For a Helvetica Neue font stack that puts the most Helvetica-like fonts first, includes Arimo, and suppresses the substitution of Arial for Helvetica on Windows systems, see the answer at graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/9054.

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@Sent6035632

This site seems to use Helvetica Neue. We got it as part of our logo that was designed (as that uses the font).

I dont like the font in websites. When text is small, especially bold, the 'c' and 'o' is really not clear at all. In fact I stopped visiting Digg as they have this set as their main font and I really couldn't read it.

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@Angie530

Based on the examples you posted in response to my comment above, you're confused.

Dribbble and Foursquare aren't using web font/font-face embedding at all. They're simply specifying Helvetica Neue in their font-family stacks. If a visitor happens to have that font installed on their system, then they'll see it. They quite likely don't, in which case their system will try the next font down, and so on until either something matches or it just ends up using their default for sans-/serif/monospace.

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@Gretchen104

This question is similar: stackoverflow.com/questions/3335336/font-replacement-services-for-helvetica-neue I did find a site using Proxima from Typekit for people who didn't have it: stevecochrane.com/v3/2007/12/13/helvetica-neue-variants-for-use-on-the-web/

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