Free Swiss 721 Bold BT Font

If you're one of those people who are in love with the Helvetica font, you may also be interested in the well known Helvetica clone known as the free Swiss 721 bold BT font. While the font set has both bold and non-bold, the bold set is a favorite.

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If you've been searching for free Helvetica font and you aren't having any luck, you may want to consider some of the similar fonts that vendors created through the years based on the popular Helvetica font. Those others include CG Triumvirate (Monotype), Nimbus Sans (URW) and the popular Swiss 721 font from Bitstream. Unfortunately, like most other popular fonts, the licensed commercial version of the font is absolutely not free. However, there are clone versions created by font designers who offer those fonts for free, as you'll find at the bottom of this article.

Bitstream created a number of "clone" fonts of the most popular classic fonts such as New Roman and Helvetica. The more famous of those clones is Swiss 721 BT, which is a clone of the Helvetica font created in 1982 by Max Miedinger, who also created the Helvetica font. After creating Helvetica under the guidance of Edouard Hoffmann, Miedinger went on to produce a total of ten font families including Helvetica for Adobe, Swiss 721 for Bitstream, Miedinger for Canada Type and Monospace 821 for Bitstream.

Bitstream, like TrueType or LinoType is a type foundry. Type foundries are organizations that employ professional graphics designers who create fonts which the foundry then offers for sale. When you buy a font, you purchase the right to use the font in your own documents, applications and other creations. Bitstream is a foundry located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. While the company offers an entire library of fonts for sale, it also focuses on developing Internet browsing, publishing and other font technologies. Founded in 1981, the Bitstream collection is most commonly used as part of the CorelDraw software package, but the foundry also offers additional fonts that aren't part of the CorelDraw font package.

Whether you decide to purchase a copy of the Swiss 721 font, of if you download one of the free clones below, you'll need to know how to install the font on your computer. To install a new font in Microsoft Windows (Vista), follow the steps below.

1. Go to the control panel, and under "Appearance and Personalization" select "Fonts"
2. When you click on the Fonts icon, you'll have the option to add or remove fonts from your system, and right click inside this folder and select "add fonts"
3. In the next pop-up box, you'll see a list of installed fonts in your system folder
4. Browse under the "Drives" folder to the location where you downloaded your new font files
5. To install the font, simply select the files and then "Install"

Installing a font in Windows is that simple. Installing the new font in Mac is just as easy.

1. Open the Finder and browse to the location where you stored your new font files
2. Select the font files that you'd like to install
3. Drag the font files over to the Font folder (located inside the Library folder)

Probably the easiest operating system to install a font is Ubuntu (Linux), where you simply need to move the font files into the system fonts folder "/usr/share/fonts" and you're finished. If the folder is invisible, you may need to include a "." in front of it like this: "/.fonts"

The original Swiss 721 bold font is not available for free, however there are a lot of designers throughout the Internet who create fonts that are very similar to Swiss 721, and offer those creations for free on various legitimate font sites. Avoid doing a blanket Internet search for free fonts, because most of the existing sites are actually a cover for malicious sites that will infect your PC with Adware, MalWare or worse. You can find fonts similar to the original Swiss 721 font at the following websites.

• Search Free Fonts
• Font Temple
• Font Space

You can also learn more about free fonts at the following articles.

• Free Fonts Helvetica Truetype
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No matter what you plan to use the Swiss 721 family of fonts for, either purchasing the original font, or downloading a free one, using any of the resources listed above, you're sure to find exactly the font that you need.

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