Neue Helvetica was a re-working of the 1957 design in order to unify its structure, weights and widths, and was released in 1983 by D. (“Helvetia” was not chosen because a Swiss sewing machine company and an insurance firm had already taken the name.) It was then released by Linotype in 1957. The name “Helvetica” was a close approximation of “Helvetia,” the Latin name for Switzerland.
The original Helvetica design was created by Max Miedinger in 1956 under the direction of Eduard Hoffmann, managing director of the Haas Type Foundry, and named “Neue Haas Grotesk.” The name was changed to Helvetica as it more closely embodied the spirit and heritage of the face. The typeface we now call Helvetica did not start with that name. In fact, there is even a feature-length film about it entitled Helvetica, which is well worth viewing for designers and non-designers alike. True, it is available on virtually every computer, which makes it available to the masses, but it just works well in numerous environments leading to its use by even the most high-end design studios. government on federal income tax forms, as well as by NASA who selected the typeface for the space shuttle orbiters. It’s been used for every typographic project imaginable, including print, signage, movie titles, the web and other digital media, and type in motion. Helvetica is one of the most popular and well-known sans serif typefaces in the world ever since its inception in 1957. And here's another one to a Wikipedia article about the usage share of the different operating systems. Here's a link to a site with some of the fonts that come pre-installed with different operating systems. This will also take some load off you server even though serving fonts isn't such a big deal. Keep in mind this is far from ideal in most cases but would allow you to avoid licensing costs and reduce the time it takes for your website to load (since it will not be downloading fonts). Your font stack could be something like font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif and you'd be covering the most common devices and operating systems (except for Android which I think doesn't come with any of those two font families). Unfortunately Arial Narrow isn't included in iOS but, since both Helvetica and Helvetica Neue come pre-installed in all Apple devices, you wouldn't have to worry too much about it. It comes pre-installed in (almost?) every Windows version and also Apple devices.
Unless you need something that looks almost exactly like Helvetica, Arial might be an option you should consider. Everyone's been giving you names of fonts that look similar to Helvetica (some more than others) but depending on what kind of project it is that you're working on you might not need any of those.
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