Every designer knows Helvetica.
This typeface designed back in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann is widely used today by many for many of their projects. Sure, the simplicity, elegance, timelessness of this typeface makes it very versatile for almost any use in the design world.

But I have never used it. Not once!
Hard to believe, isn't it?

Well, I know there are designers who use Helvetica for all their projects. But not me.

I don't dislike this typeface, its just that I never got the change to use it properly. Always looked for a different typeface for every design project I was involved with.

Guess I always wanted to design something different every time and not choosing a typeface used by so many fellow designers, this was a big difference for me.
Or I had to communicate something else in every project I designed for.

And from this need to come up with something different every time, I looked for alternatives to a neutral typeface such as Helvetica, that I can use both for commercial work and personal experiments.

So, this would be my list of Helvetica alternatives: