Familiar Pro was inspired by a Type Battle over at Typophile: How would you design a font metrically compatible with Helvetica, but better than Arial? Working with preset letter widths was an interesting constraint, both a relief  and a limitation at the same time.

The family includes all four of the basic weights. The skewed obliques (done to a slightly less steep 10 degrees angle as opposed to the original's 12) have been optically adjusted. The letters have been designed quite close to the German/Swiss grotesk tradition, but by using super-elliptical rounds, rounded dots and slightly curved outer verticals the end result is a friendly looking font family that still looks... familiar.