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To use this font on all devices, use a @font-face declaration in your CSS to link to it on your domain if you wish to use it. Just mind the copyright if you do. Make sure the licence you pay for includes web embedding.
Helvetica Neue is not a web-safe type, so to do this you would have to license the typeface from a foundry like https://myfonts.com. They usually will allow you to use the type for a monthly fee and give you a CSS @font-face to link it to an external site.
Nimbus Sans Designed by type foundry URW, Nimbus Sans is a great Helvetica replacement.
After a lot of fiddling, got it working (only tested in Webkit) using:
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold";
font-stretch was dropped between CSS2 and 2.1, though is back in CSS3, but is only supported in IE9 (never thought I'd be able to say that about any CSS prop!)
This works because I'm using the postscript name (find the font in Font Book, hit cmd+I), which is non-standard behaviour. It's probably worth using:
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold", "Helvetica Neue";
As a fallback, else other browsers might default to serif if they can't work it out.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ndFTL/12/
I had the same problem and trouble getting it to work on all browsers.
So this is the best font stack for Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold I could find:
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold", "HelveticaNeueBoldCondensed", "HelveticaNeue-Bold-Condensed", "Helvetica Neue Bold Condensed", "HelveticaNeueBold", "HelveticaNeue-Bold", "Helvetica Neue Bold", "HelveticaNeue", "Helvetica Neue", 'TeXGyreHerosCnBold', "Helvetica", "Tahoma", "Geneva", "Arial Narrow", "Arial", sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-stretch:condensed;
Even more stacks to find at:
http://rachaelmoore.name/posts/design/css/web-safe-helvetica-font-stack/
In case anyone is still looking for Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold, you essentially have two options.
A very cheap compromise is to buy Franklin from fontspring and then use "HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold" as the preferred font in your CSS.
h2 {"HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold", "FranklinGothicFSDemiCondensed", Arial, sans-serif;}
Then if a Mac user loads your site they see Helvetica Neue, but if they're on another platform they see Franklin.
UPDATE: I discovered a much closer match to Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold is Nimbus Sans Novus D Condensed bold. In fact, it is also derived from Helvetica. You can get it at MyFonts.com for $20 (desktop) and $20 (web, 10k pageviews). Web with unlimited pageviews is $160. I have used this font throughout (i.e. NOT exploiting the Mac's built in "NimbusSansNovusDBoldCondensed" at all) because it leads to a design that is more uniform across browsers. Built in HN and Nimbus Sans are very similar in all respects but point size. Nimbus needs a few extra points to get an identical size match.
"Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold" get working with firefox:
.class {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue";
font-weight: bold;
font-stretch: condensed;
}
But it's fail with Opera.
You would have to turn your font into a web font as shown in these SO questions:
However, you may run into copyright issues with this: Not every font allows distribution as a web font. Check your font license to see whether it is allowed.
One of the easiest free and legal ways to use web fonts is Google Web Fonts. However, sadly, they don't have Helvetica Neue in their portfolio.
One of the easiest non-free and legal ways is to purchase the font from a foundry that offers web licenses. I happen to know that the myFonts foundry does this; they even give you a full package with all the JavaScript and CSS pre-prepared. I'm sure other foundries do the same.
Edit: MyFonts have Helvetica neue in Stock, but apparently not with a web license. Check out this list of similar fonts of which some have a web license. Also, Ray Larabie has some nice fonts there, with web licenses, some of them are free.
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