Typography of Apple Inc. with some idiosyncratic details, such as an "R" deviating from the general style. Before the introduction of the first Macintosh, alongside the Apple logo, Apple used a typeface called Motter Tektura, which was designed in Austria by Othmar Motter of Vorarlberger Graphik in 1975 and distributed by Letraset (and also famously used by Reebok). At the time, the typeface was considered new and modern. One modification to the typeface was the removal of the dot over the "i". The "s" was also modified for the label on the Disk II 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. According to the logo designer, Rob
Helvetica for body text, and on the international market. In 1960, its name was changed by Haas' German parent company Stempel to "Helvetica" (meaning "Swiss" in Latin) in order to make it more marketable internationally. It comes from the Latin name for the pre-Roman tribes of what became Switzerland. Intending to match the success of Univers, Arthur Ritzel of Stempel redesigned Neue Haas Grotesk into a larger family. The design was popular: Paul Shaw suggests that Helvetica "began to muscle out" Akzidenz-Grotesk in New York City from around summer 1965, when Amsterdam Continental, which imported European typefaces, stopped pushing Akzidenz-Grotesk in