It is part of the Newhouse DT family, which includes weights ranging from Hairline to Extra Heavy (ExtraBlack).
Technically, the “updated” tag mattered. Subtle fixes in spacing corrected the clumsy joins that had made earlier builds look stapled together. Optical sizes allowed the same family to serve both billboard and caption without losing character. For typographers, such refinements were not mere polish but ethics: the difference between a shouted baseline and an instrument tuned to human perception.
in the mid-1990s as a modernized, highly functional sans-serif family. Its "story" is one of technical precision—it was essentially built as an evolution of Helvetica Inserat