Editing Helvetica (section)

===Language variants===
Helvetica Greek has gone through several versions. [[Letraset]] designed a semi-official version for their dry transfer lettering system, available by 1970, which sold well but was considered unidiomatic by Linotype.<ref name="Lekka thesis">{{cite thesis |last=Lekka |first=Helena |date=2017 |title=Linotype's design of new Greek typefaces for photocomposition in the Greek printing market, 1970-1980 |type= |chapter= |publisher=[[University of Reading]] |docket= |oclc= |url=https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/79821/ |access-date= |archive-date=2022-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015201917/https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/79821/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Linotype published a 1971 version designed by [[Matthew Carter]] which was available for phototypesetting and so for general purpose printing such as extended text.<ref name="Lekka thesis" /><ref name="Lekka 2014">{{cite web |last1=Lekka |first1=Helena |title=The design of Helvetica Greek for photocomposition |url=https://www.academia.edu/11274479 |website=Academia.edu |publisher=[[University of Reading]] |access-date=15 October 2022 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206064732/https://www.academia.edu/11274479 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Re|first1=Margaret|title=A Typographic Jubilee for Matthew Carter|journal=Typo|date=2005|url=http://storage.svettisku.cz/TYPO_2005_18.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319104747/http://storage.svettisku.cz/TYPO_2005_18.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-03-19|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://storage.svettisku.cz/TYPO_2005_18.pdf |type=magazine |title=TYPO.18 |date=December 2005 |publisher=Svettisku |place=[[Czech Republic|CZ]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319104747/http://storage.svettisku.cz/TYPO_2005_18.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Carter|first1=Matthew|editor1-last=Macrakis|editor1-first=Michael|title=Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels|date=1996|publisher=Oak Knoll Press|location=New Castle, Del.|isbn=978-1-884718-27-4|page=175|edition= 1st}}</ref> Carter felt in 1974 that the Letraset version was "a poor thing" and Linotype's version was "the real one" but that Letraset's was well-enough accepted in Greece that he felt it had "caused resistance to our version".<ref name="Lekka thesis" /> Linotype published a new version in 2001 designed by John Hudson at Tiro Typeworks.<ref name="Lekka thesis" /><ref name="Lekka 2014" />

The Cyrillic version was designed in-house in the 1970s at D Stempel AG, then critiqued and redesigned in 1992 under the advice of [[Jovica Veljović]], although [[#Zhukov and Kurbatov version|a pirated version]] had already been created in 1963 by Russian designers Maxim Zhukov and Yuri Kurbatov.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=361 |work= Fonts |title= Helvetica Cyrillic |publisher= Adobe |access-date= 2009-06-08 |archive-date= 2009-04-27 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090427075843/http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=361 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="Typographica Soyuz Grotesk">{{cite web |last1=Samarskaya |first1=Ksenya |title=Soyuz Grotesk |url=https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/soyuz-grotesk/ |website=Typographica |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609170738/https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/soyuz-grotesk/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Soyuz Grotesk Temporary State">{{cite web |last1=Gornitsky |first1=Roman |title=Soyuz Grotesk: release notes |url=http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/1/ |website=The Temporary State |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308211535/https://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>