Helvetica Standard Edits refers to a clip from the anime Nichijou that is used in remixes prior to an unfortunate event or a similar sort of " EPIC FAIL" video. Part sequel/spin off and part mind map of Keiichi Arawi, the first half of this book collects the Helvetica Standard short comic strips that were originally published in Newtype Magazine in Japan. Their version received widespread use in phototypesetting, especially among other students at the Moscow Print Institute, despite never being commercially released. For over a century, Kodansha has relentlessly pursued quality and creativity, which allows us to continuously reimagine what could be. A feature-length film directed by Gary Hustwit was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction in 1957.

Larabie's company Typodermic offers Coolvetica in a wide variety of weights as a commercial release, with the semi-bold as freeware taster. The MTA system is still rife with a proliferation of Helvetica-like fonts, including Arial, in addition to some old signs in Medium Standard, and a few anomalous signs in Helvetica Narrow.Like many neo-grotesque designs, Helvetica has narrow apertures, which limits its legibility onscreen and at small print sizes. The Helvetica 77 variation is used in street and house signage in Riga and other municipalities in Latvia, although common road signage in the country uses a version of DIN 1451. The studio manager was Wolfgang Schimpf, and his assistant was Reinhard Haus; the manager of the project was René Kerfante. The Helvetica Standard proper 4-koma is random and very silly, but but that paired with good panel timing and beautiful art is what makes it unique and special. Many type manufacturers in the past have done knock-offs of Helvetica that were indistinguishable or nearly so.

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. Helvetica is a common choice for commercial wordmarks, including those for 3M (including Scotch Tape), Adult Swim, American Apparel, BASF, Behance, Blaupunkt, BMW, Diaspora, ECM, Funimation, General Motors (until 2021), J. Nano asks Hakase what she going to ask Santa Claus for, Hakase wants chocolate, colored pencil, cake shaped eraser and something else.However, many of the Helvetica Standards feature characters from Nichijou and are in the anime as regular shorts. Substitute Helvetica designs that have survived into or originated during the digital period have included Monotype's Arial, Compugraphic's CG Triumvirate, ParaType's Pragmatica, Bitstream's Swiss 721, URW++'s Nimbus Sans and Scangraphic's Europa Grotesk. Although the Japanese word for pizza rhymes with the word for a visa (if Wiktionary and Google Translate are correct. Larabie has also taken inspiration from Helvetica in some of his other designs, including Movatif and GGX88. Mio swings a coin with a string through the hole in its center, staring intently at Yuuko, who watches the coin swing back and forth.