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Helvetica

The font that is actually provided is URW Nimbus Sans (A Helvetica clone). An enhanced version is available with the TeX Gyre Heros font.

Text example

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Usage

\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %% Only if the base font of the document is to be sans serif
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Style examples

\normalfont

\slshape

\bfseries

\bfseries\slshape

Numbers

Ligatures

Available as Type 1?

Helvetica is available as Type 1.

Location at CTAN

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/