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===Nimbus Sans=== [[URW++|URW]] (later URW++) under the leadership of [[Peter Karow]] produced a modification of Helvetica called [[Nimbus Sans]].<ref name="Karow2012" /> This is an extremely large font family with optical sizes spaced for different sizes of text and other variants such as stencil styles.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nimbus Sans|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/nimbus-sans/|website=[[MyFonts]]|publisher=[[URW++]]|access-date=30 April 2018|archive-date=1 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501093702/https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/nimbus-sans/|url-status=live}}</ref> Florian Hardwig has described its display-oriented styles, with tight spacing, as more reminiscent of Helvetica as used in the 1970s from cold type than any official Helvetica digitisation.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hardwig|first1=Florian|title=National Trust Tree Appeal Poster|url=http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4873/national-trust-tree-appeal-poster|website=Fonts In Use|date=30 September 2013|access-date=20 March 2016|archive-date=31 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331230208/http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4873/national-trust-tree-appeal-poster|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Freeman|first1=Luke|last2=Hardwig|first2=Florian|title=London's Fastest poster campaign by Nike|url=https://fontsinuse.com/uses/18106/london-s-fastest-poster-campaign-by-nike|website=Fonts in Use|date=31 July 2017|access-date=1 May 2018|archive-date=1 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501230256/https://fontsinuse.com/uses/18106/london-s-fastest-poster-campaign-by-nike|url-status=live}}</ref>
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