This typeface has its roots in the Egyptienne-family which became popular in the beginning of the 19th Century. To make the family more unique and personal, ”twists” have been crafted throughout the design. All together a family of 6 weights, including: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black and Black Italic.

The font package Helen Bg Family is in 5 weights and two widths, 18 styles: Thin, Thin Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Light Condensed, Light Condensed Italic, Condensed, Condensed Italic, Bold Condensed, Bold Condensed Italic, Black Condensed and Black Condensed Italic. Helen Bg is made with Bulgarian Design of Cyrillic and is recommended for the publications for Bulgaria. Other version with standard Cyrillic is available from HermesSoft Limited. Typeface design: Vassil Nikolov. Release date: 1991 - 96, HermesSOFT Design notes and Technical data Helen belongs to the typefaces from the humanistic sanserif grotesk fonts. The font is for wide use – from the classical typesetting to the display typography. In the Bulgarian Code Page are included all vowels with accents that are really necessary for the typesetting in Bulgarian language, and are not included in the Cyrillic Code Page: Helen Is available in OpenType PostScript and WEB font formats.