It was developed by Linotype Design Studio in 1983. It also has some other changes such as improved legibility, heavier punctuation marks, and increased spacing. This has added a more structured integrated set of higher and wider fonts.
It’s still not possible to set the font size manually and the list of the fonts available to choose from is limited to only 38 options, including the usual suspects like Arial, Calibri, Comic Sans, Verdana, Times New Roman, and Trebuchet. Neue Helvetica or Helvetica Neue is an improved version of the Helvetica font. If you spend a lot of time working in Data Studio, you will certainly remember not being able to draw a line and instead, having to create a rectangle and decrease the width or height so much that it looks like a thin line, or not being able to choose the exact font size e.g., something between 14px and 18px for a while until Google released the option of having 16px fonts too! Google slowly releases some “quality of life” features, but no one knows when to expect them, and it’s most likely that they’re at the bottom of the priority list. These tiny limitations aren’t critical, they don’t break your report, but for those spending most of their time in Data Studio, lack of those features can become a little bit annoying at times. Google Data Studio is a great data visualization tool and it’s been evolving quickly over the years, but there are still some basic features missing from the interface.